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Placing the weldment profile in the weldment profile library - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Weldments
Placing the weldment profile in the weldment profile library
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to show you how to save this library profile out to a folder on your file system, and create the path inside of Solidworks so when you create a weldment it knows where to find this profile. So in the last movie, we actually created this profile here, and we did save it as a library feature. However, Solidworks doesn't really know where those features are in this case, so let's go ahead and do that one more time. So, first things first, let's go ahead and save this library feature out. So, I have a part here, and I have this sketch here, so the key is choosing the sketch, coming up to your two file, come down to Save As, and instead of a regular part, I want to save it as a library feature part. Now, as soon as I do that, it automatically puts me in the design library, and actually prefer to not save it there. I want to save it into my Exercise Files folder. Now, I'm going to be using the same profile multiple times throughout this course, so I…
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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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