Bend Relief In Sheet Metal

Lack of proper bend reliefs may cause tearing of the material due to localized stresses.

Bend relief in sheet metal.

With the bend shape selected at the intellishape editing level click the handle toggle if necessary to switch to display of the bend relief tools. This article looks at two different tips associated with ensuring you have high quality sheet metal in finished products. A wide bend relief makes it easier for the manufacturer to position the sheet over the end of. Select the desired relief type in the sheet metal tab in the quad.

Are easier to manufacture. The default shape view is replaced by the relief view and editing tools. Without bend relief the metal around a. However parts that use bend relief when appropriate come with other benefits including that they.

One benefit of a bend relief is that it makes the part easier to produce. Contribute to a stronger product. Bend relief synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. To display the bend relief of a bend sheet metal shape.

Improper bending of sheet metal can cause material flow problems in soft material and fracturing in hard materials. In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius. If the select faces option of the selectionmodes. 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.