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- The Weldment package within SolidWorks allowsyou to create some amazing fabricated structures,with just a few either 2D or 3D sketchesand some pre-loaded shapes.The sketch lines define where and howthe structural pieces are laid out.We can then choose a standard shapematerial like either round or rectangle tubing,I-beams, channel, or we can even design our own shape.And weldments aren't just for structuralmetal shapes either.They work great with wood, extruded aluminum, or justabout any other standard building material.
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To get started, let's go ahead and fire up SolidWorks.I'm using SolidWorks 2014.Okay, come up here to the top andstart a brand new document.I'm gonna be starting a document called LyndaPart,but any standard template will work just fine for that.Go ahead and click OK.Okay, once we're in the SolidWorks environment, we wantto make sure that we have the Weldments tab turned on.So, go up here to the top.I have Features, I have Sketchand I have Weldments and you can alwaysadd new tabs by right clickingon any one of them and listingall the other available toolbars.
So, make so Weldments is turned on.And, if you want, you can turnall the other ones off so it doesn't confusing at all.But, make sure you have Weldments, Sketches,and Features all turned on and let's get ready to go here.So, jump over to the Sketch toolbar,just like anything in SolidWorks,we're pretty much always going to be startinga sketch on either a face or a plane.To get started, let's go ahead and choose a Sketchand go ahead and choose the Top Plane.Now, I'm gonna use a Rectangle tool,so I'm gonna choose the Center Point Rectangle.
Start right at the origin and just drag something out.Let's add a couple dimensions.I'm gonna make this 48 inches long,and gonna make it 40 inches across.Okay, exit out of that Sketch.So you can see if I spin it around in 3D here,exactly, just a real simple rectangle.Now what I want to do is create some Weldments.So, jump over to the Weldments tab,and I can either start with a 3D sketch,but, in this case, I'm using that2D sketch as my weldment.Then, I want to turn or activatethe Weldment command, so that, clicking on that,adds the Weldment to my Feature Manager hereshowing that I've started my Weldmentand now I have a multi-body part.
And, then choose Structural Member.Now, I've got a bunch of options inside ofthis toolbar here and I don't need to gothrough every single option, I justwant to pick out the basics here.So, I'm gonna to be choosing an inch system versus ISO,and these are the pre-loaded shapes.And I can choose from angle iron,c channel, pipe, rectangle tubing, s sections,which is actual I-beams, some square tubing.So, I'm gonna use the square tubingin this case here, but you've gota bunch of different options hereand it's not every size that's available,it's really just some standard sizes to get you started.
And then as far as the size, let's go ahead andchoose three by three by quarter wall.And, now it's as simple as literally justchoosing the lines inside the Sketch window.So, go over here and click on this line here.As soon as I do that, look what happens.It makes a sketch at the end andit extrudes it along that entire line.If I zoom in, I can see there's the sketchof my structural member and it's beingextruded along that entire length of that line.Now the other side here, you cansee it ends right where that line ends.
Now, watch what happens here as soon asI choose that next line.It adds another piece, but it alsoit actually added a miter to bothof those pieces the same time.I can do the same thing by continuingaround this rectangle.Makes another miter corner.And my final piece here, and it miters both sides there.And now, I'm gonna come back hereon the follow-on movies and go throughall these different options we haveinside of the Structural Member dialogue box here.But, for right now, let's just click onthe green check mark and create our very first Weldment.
So, just that quickly we were ableto draw a simple 2D sketch, define a structuralmember, and define where we want to placethose members in this design, and, boom,we've got a completed structural member here.It's not a very complicated partbut at least we have something set upand we're using the Weldment package just that quickly.
- The Weldment package within SolidWorks allowsyou to create some amazing fabricated structures,with just a few either 2D or 3D sketchesand some pre-loaded shapes.The sketch lines define where and howthe structural pieces are laid out.We can then choose a standard shapematerial like either round or rectangle tubing,I-beams, channel, or we can even design our own shape.And weldments aren't just for structuralmetal shapes either.They work great with wood, extruded aluminum, or justabout any other standard building material.
To get started, let's go ahead and fire up SolidWorks.I'm using SolidWorks 2014.Okay, come up here to the top andstart a brand new document.I'm gonna be starting a document called LyndaPart,but any standard template will work just fine for that.Go ahead and click OK.Okay, once we're in the SolidWorks environment, we wantto make sure that we have the Weldments tab turned on.So, go up here to the top.I have Features, I have Sketchand I have Weldments and you can alwaysadd new tabs by right clickingon any one of them and listingall the other available toolbars.
So, make so Weldments is turned on.And, if you want, you can turnall the other ones off so it doesn't confusing at all.But, make sure you have Weldments, Sketches,and Features all turned on and let's get ready to go here.So, jump over to the Sketch toolbar,just like anything in SolidWorks,we're pretty much always going to be startinga sketch on either a face or a plane.To get started, let's go ahead and choose a Sketchand go ahead and choose the Top Plane.Now, I'm gonna use a Rectangle tool,so I'm gonna choose the Center Point Rectangle.
Start right at the origin and just drag something out.Let's add a couple dimensions.I'm gonna make this 48 inches long,and gonna make it 40 inches across.Okay, exit out of that Sketch.So you can see if I spin it around in 3D here,exactly, just a real simple rectangle.Now what I want to do is create some Weldments.So, jump over to the Weldments tab,and I can either start with a 3D sketch,but, in this case, I'm using that2D sketch as my weldment.Then, I want to turn or activatethe Weldment command, so that, clicking on that,adds the Weldment to my Feature Manager hereshowing that I've started my Weldmentand now I have a multi-body part.
And, then choose Structural Member.Now, I've got a bunch of options inside ofthis toolbar here and I don't need to gothrough every single option, I justwant to pick out the basics here.So, I'm gonna to be choosing an inch system versus ISO,and these are the pre-loaded shapes.And I can choose from angle iron,c channel, pipe, rectangle tubing, s sections,which is actual I-beams, some square tubing.So, I'm gonna use the square tubingin this case here, but you've gota bunch of different options hereand it's not every size that's available,it's really just some standard sizes to get you started.
And then as far as the size, let's go ahead andchoose three by three by quarter wall.And, now it's as simple as literally justchoosing the lines inside the Sketch window.So, go over here and click on this line here.As soon as I do that, look what happens.It makes a sketch at the end andit extrudes it along that entire line.If I zoom in, I can see there's the sketchof my structural member and it's beingextruded along that entire length of that line.Now the other side here, you cansee it ends right where that line ends.
Now, watch what happens here as soon asI choose that next line.It adds another piece, but it alsoit actually added a miter to bothof those pieces the same time.I can do the same thing by continuingaround this rectangle.Makes another miter corner.And my final piece here, and it miters both sides there.And now, I'm gonna come back hereon the follow-on movies and go throughall these different options we haveinside of the Structural Member dialogue box here.But, for right now, let's just click onthe green check mark and create our very first Weldment.
So, just that quickly we were ableto draw a simple 2D sketch, define a structuralmember, and define where we want to placethose members in this design, and, boom,we've got a completed structural member here.It's not a very complicated partbut at least we have something set upand we're using the Weldment package just that quickly.