Solid Edge Sheet Metal Bend Relief

When sheet metal bends it compresses slightly on the inside of the bend and stretches slightly on the outside of the bend.

Solid edge sheet metal bend relief.

You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. Bend relief synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. When you create a feature with zero radius bends or with no bend relief specified solid edge automatically creates minimum radius bend or a small bend relief in the model. This is done to facilitate flattening the model.

Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief. Cad cam tutorial 34 640 views. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. You can use the delete relief faces command to delete the system generated interior rounds and bend relief.

This means that somewhere in the thickness of the metal there is a neutral plane where the material does not stretch or compress. Bend tables can be stored within 3d parts to allow the bend order to be documented used on drawings and exported to help program cnc machines. Solid edge lets you represent deformation features in a manner that best suits your sheet metal manufacturing process. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief.

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