From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Weldments
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Basic and advanced weldment part creation - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Weldments
Basic and advanced weldment part creation
- [Instructor] In this example, we're going to be going over some methods for creating a weldment. Now, the first thing I want to do is take a look at this part here which is a pretty complex frame that we're going to be creating into a weldment and then over here, I have the profile which I'd like to use. So this is just a circle or a piece of tubing. So the first thing I want to refresh your memory about is actually saving this profile out. Now, I've already got the profile defined and here's the sketch so I'm going to go head up to File, Save As, make this a weldment profile so Library Feature Part, here it is. Come over here to Exercise Files, remember, we save things in the Templates folder and I have this folder called WeldmentProfileDone. I'm going to put that right in there and this one's going to be called P2. Pretty sneaky with my naming convention here. So P2 for profile number two and click on Save. Alright, so now that's saved out, you can see over here, it does have a…
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Weldment profile creation4m 3s
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Placing the weldment profile in the weldment profile library6m 5s
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Basic and advanced weldment part creation5m 51s
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Locating a weldment profile3m 19s
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Weldment corner modification2m 17s
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Profile alignment1m 35s
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Placing gaps at corners and segment intersections1m 58s
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End caps2m 2s
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Gussets1m 37s
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Weldment part modification2m 8s
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Using the Trim/Extend command5m 24s
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3D sketch creation4m 27s
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Cut list folder management in the weldment part2m 13s
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Cut list creation in the weldment drawing2m 33s
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