Weldments Training Course

Course Description: Weldments teaches you how to create welded structures with standard structural members. Weld beads are also covered.

Course Length: 1 Day

Prerequisites: SOLIDWORKS Essentials

Topics

Introduction

About This Course

Windows® 7

Use of Color

Finding Commands.

Lesson 1: Weldment Features

  • Weldments
  • Structural Members
  • Groups vs. Structural Members
  • Adding Plates and Holes
  • Gussets and End Caps
  • Using Symmetry
  • Advantages of a Multibody Part
  • Limitations of a Multibody Part
  • Exercises

Lesson 2: Working with Weldments

  • Managing the Cut List
  • Cut List Item Names
  • Accessing Properties
  • Cut-List Properties Dialog
  • Structural Member Properties.
  • Adding Cut List Properties
  • Bounding Boxes in Weldments
  • Options for Generating Cut List Items
  • Custom Structural Member Profiles
  • Defining Material
  • Creating Custom Profiles
  • Standard or Configured Profiles
  • Inserting Existing Parts
  • When to Use an Assembly
  • Exercises

Lesson 3: Configuring and Detailing Weldments

  • Weldment Configurations
  • Post-Assembly Machining Features
  • Weldment Drawings
  • Drawing Views of Individual Bodies
  • Representing Welds
  • Exercises

Lesson 4: Working with Bent Structural Members

  • Working with Bent Structural Members
  • 3D Sketching
  • Exercises

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