Corner Relief Sheet Metal

Click corner relief sheet metal toolbar or insert sheet metal corner relief.

Corner relief sheet metal.

In this article we are going to explore how the feature is applied to the part to create the appropriate relief. With the flat pattern activated select insert sheet metal corner trim or select it from the corner button on the command manager toolbar. I won t demo that here unless someone really wants to see it. The other tool shown with the 2 bend corner is the rip corner which is used in situation where you start with a 3d model and want to make it into a sheet metal part.

Say you have a box remove the top and think wall it. Under corners click collect all corners to list all corners in the sheet metal body. To flatten the box you have to rip the corners. Use the corner relief propertymanager to apply corner treatments to a folded sheet metal body that persist in the flattened state.

At the time we only explained how these reliefs worked. Corner relief corner reliefs can be added to a sheet metal part from within the part s flattened state. You can add a corner relief to a single sheet metal body. In the corner relief propertymanager under scope select the sheet metal body to which to apply the corner relief.