Bend Relief In Sheet Metal

This article looks at two different tips associated with ensuring you have high quality sheet metal in finished products.

Bend relief in sheet metal.

However parts that use bend relief when appropriate come with other benefits including that they. Lack of proper bend reliefs may cause tearing of the material due to localized stresses. If it is ok for the metal to rip the minimum bend relief is zero. One benefit of a bend relief is that it makes the part easier to produce.

To eliminate this a bend relief is added so the edge of the sheet metal is perpendicular to the bend. The default shape view is replaced by the relief view and editing tools. Bend relief synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Contribute to a stronger product.

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. In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius. Select the desired relief type in the sheet metal tab in the quad. A wide bend relief makes it easier for the manufacturer to position the sheet over the end of.

Without bend relief the metal around a. Improper bending of sheet metal can cause material flow problems in soft material and fracturing in hard materials. Are easier to manufacture. 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.