Sheet Metal Corner Relief Size

Override sheet metal style settings for corner shape and relief.

Sheet metal corner relief size.

You can specify the corner relief shape for a 2 or 3 bend corner. At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. Small hole size in sheet metal requires smaller size punching tool which may leads to break during the operation. In december 2013 we showed the new types of corner reliefs that were added with solidworks 2014.

Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs. The corner tab lets you override default parameters in the sheet metal styles dialog box. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.

You can also specify the relief size and whether to apply auto mitering. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief. It is recommended that the diameter of the hole should be equal or more than the thickness of the sheet metal.

Do one of the following. The way this one works is that you select the tool first found on the home tab sheet metal group. If you use the close 2 bend corner tool you can take the two corner types shown above and they will look like the closed corner shown below with the flat pattern to the right.