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Need more rigid & flexible assemblies tutorials? Get SOLIDWORKS training online tutorials now. Get started with a membership. One of the great things about SolidWorks is how easy it is to navigate through the assembly tree when working with an assembly containing multiple parts or subassemblies. Often times, you’ll find yourself in a situation where […]
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Get 30+ expert tips, tricks and practices to up your SOLIDWORKS large assembly performance. Download Your Quick Fix Guide to Managing Large Assemblies in SOLIDWORKS for free . In this tutorial, we’ll take a look at creating a drawing with an exploded view to illustrate the assembly structure of a simple sheet metal enclosure. The
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This article is a guest post by Jim Lucas SolidWorks World is coming in January! I just found out that I get to go. I’m a competitive guy, and enjoy challenges like Model Mania. It’s too bad they only happen once a year and that you have to go to the conference, because it motivates me
Master SOLIDWORKS faster with tutorials & CSWP online training. To properly utilize the weldments features for Solidworks an understanding of the cut list structure is required. Once the Weldment feature is added to a part a few changes are made, including a change from “Solid bodies” to “Cut-List” in the feature manager. This cut list
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Weldments are a part of the Solidworks software that are intended to be used for parts that will require welding. It leads to reason then that small details, such as welding gaps in lengths, should be handled in an easy and intuitive fashion. Sure enough, one of the built in options when inserting weldment members
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To start creating a weldment a path for each member must be present. This means a sketch must be created to represent the members paths. For simple boxes and very basic weldment parts sketches can be laid out in a traditional 2d fashion, but to really control things it is typically easier to create a
It is a simple fact that weldments are not going to just be made up of members. Welding can create a strong bond, yes, but there will also be a need for bracing to transfer the loads correctly. To do this many beams get cross braces of smaller sizes or just a simple gusset. When
When creating weldments one of, if not THE, most important dimensions is the length of each segment. Depending on the end condition (flat/butted) this may be the only value needed to actually manufacture the cut list of a given profile. For this reason the trim/extend tool is extremely useful. If structural members are created in
End caps for weldments are rather basic. This is one of the areas where the software knows what typical design intent is going to be, and a feature specific to that task has been created. Not having worked directly in an industry where weldments are regularly used I have no idea whether or not this
