Relief Cuts In Sheet Metal

To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend.

Relief cuts in sheet metal.

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. Bends in sheet metal are manufactured using sheet metal brakes. Not shown scroll down in property manager is an auto relief setting that controls how corners and relief cuts are handled. In the propertymanager under auto relief change the type of relief cut.

Bend relief synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. If you select rectangular or obround specify the relief ratio. Options in basic sheet metal base flange tab. Sheet metal parts may have sharp corners but designing a fillet of the material s thickness will make parts more cost effective.

Sheet metal parts with a minimum of 0 9mm to 20mm in thickness can be manufactured. This same tool can be used to make a flat piece of sheet metal that one would use to add edge flanges and other useful sheet metal features. When designing parts for laser cutting one should not make holes smaller than the thickness of the material. Right click the sheet metal feature in the featuremanager design tree and select edit feature.

If it is ok for the metal to rip the minimum bend relief is zero. To change the type of relief cut for all bends. Relief cuts help parts avoid overhangs and tearing at bends.