From the course: Steel Building Design with SOLIDWORKS Weldments
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Creating a custom weldment profile - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Steel Building Design with SOLIDWORKS Weldments
Creating a custom weldment profile
- In the last set of movies we created an assembly, Now we want to take one of the weldment parts out of that assembly and add my own custom profile to that weldment and continue adding it to the assembly. So let's go ahead and open this frame here up. So its 3.2-2. Click on Open, Part. And I want to add a new roof section to this piece here. So let's go ahead and create our own section. And I've started off with a sketch of a new part. So I'm going to click on File, Open. I'm going to choose, 3.2-3. Go ahead and open that one up. And here's my shape that I want to be using. So I want to go and save this as it's own weldment library feature. So if I choose this sketch itself, I can click on File, Save as. And I'm going to choose a library feature part. Notice by default it takes us to the design library. But notice we changed that location before. So we put it on the Desktop. Put it under our ExerciseFiles, inside of WeldmentProfiles. Now here's where things get a little more tricky…
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