Sheet Metal Bend Relief

Select a hard edge bend face flange face or 3d solid entire model.

Sheet metal bend relief.

If it is ok for the metal to rip the minimum bend relief is zero. The bigger the bend relief the easier it is to align over the end of the tooling. Lack of proper bend reliefs may cause tearing of the material due to localized stresses. In sheet metal a bend relief is an incision cut along the sides of a planned bend.

Select an item see the note below. You are also able to select to extend the bend relief in the opposite direction in the case of a flange for example illustrations below. This article looks at two different tips associated with ensuring you have high quality sheet metal in finished products. To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend.

In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius. Sheet metal bend relief modify a bend relief the small cut made where the bend end meets a free edge and by specifying a shape and either a depth and relief width scale or specific bend relief depth. One benefit of a bend relief is that it makes the part easier to produce. 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.

Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Type smreliefcreate in the command bar. Click the create relief tool button on the sheet metal ribbon tab. Though bend relief lengths and widths vary between projects they all share a common goal.

During the bending of sheet metal material around the bend tends to stretch and deform.