Corner relief

 

 

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This command removes a vertex with a tool to avoid a roll of material during bending.

 

Creation stages / Use:

 

Click the icon or select Sheet Metal > Corner Relief... from the drop-down menu.

 

  1. Select the type of corner relief:

 

Spherical type corner relief

Cubical type corner relief

 

  1. Select the Creation or Identification mode: The creation mode allows to create a corner relief, the identification mode allows to recognize one of the corner relief created by an unknown mode (with the creation functions like flange or recovering available in TopSolid or with an imported part converted as sheet metal). The corner relief extraction or simplification options available in the unbending document will be usable for these operations.

 

Creation mode:

  1. Select the vertexes of your part.

  2. Enter the corner relief value. (sphere diameter or block dimensions ).

 

 

Identification mode:

  1. Select the root face of the corner relief. It is a face where the corner reliefs (rectangular) are connected. In this case, TopSolid tries to automatically find them. If the faces are not found or if there are too many, it is possible to add or remove them in the Faces to consider or to ignore field.

This command can be used with these usual configurations:

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Single recovering:

 

 

 
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Double recovering:

 

 

 
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3 bends intersection:

 

 

 

 

In each of these cases, the selected faces gap is signifiant and influences the result in the unfolding document.

  1. Enter the corner relief value. (sphere diameter or block dimensions).

 

 

if you only want to extract corners reliefs in the unfolding document, the kind of selected corner relief is not signifiant.

 

 

  1. Validate the creation of the corner relief(s) with the button.

 

Advanced options:

 

Extract on unfolding: By checking this option, corner reliefs won"t be displayed in the unfolding document.