Sheet Metal Relief

Choose create relief in the sheet metal menu.

Sheet metal relief.

When you select a corner it is highlighted in the graphics area. Lists corners to which you can apply corner relief. When you apply a relief option to the selected corner the list shows the option applied. Though bend relief lengths and widths vary between projects they all share a common goal.

You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. Enter relief size by bend radius ratio or force bend reliefs. In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius. To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend.

Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. For example if you make a partial flange as above using all the defaults the software makes relief cuts at the end of the bends as shown to the right. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar.

Lets you select the sheet metal body to which the corner relief is applied. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief. When sheet metal makes a transition from a bend to a flat surface or to another bend it tends to rip and tear. Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word.

Do one of the following. Preventing tearing and part deformation during the bending process. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body.