Relief Cut Sheet Metal

When sheet metal makes a transition from a bend to a flat surface or to another bend it tends to rip and tear.

Relief cut sheet metal.

Relief cuts help parts avoid overhangs and tearing at. Please take a look at the picture i m hopeful someone who works with sheet metal commonly will enjoy the kudos and. The width of the relief should be the material thickness or greater. Sheet metal relief cut need to lay a flat pattern of a sheet metal part with a flange with a cut because it is not full length of the original face.

Synchronous sheet metal is pretty cool even cooler than just normal synchronous modeling if you ll excuse that word. Sheet metal fabrication is the process of forming parts from a metal sheet by punching cutting stamping and bending. Bend 2 shows a rectangular relief cut into the part the depth of the relief should be greater than the radius of the bend. Bend 1 shows a a tear relief.

Then i would have to come back and draw a sketch on top of the sheet metal where there is not a relief cut and add another thickness of sheet metal. It obviously won t accept it because i am not doing it right. In general a minimum bend relief is equal to the material thickness plus the inside bend radius. The drawing attached actually has a double relief cut so i would have to add 01 thickness and then do another sketch on top of that layer and add another 045 layer of material.