Export a solidworks file with weld seams

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Hello 

I'm looking to export an assembly with the weld seams.

I tried with the step and iges formats but neither of them keep the cords. 

My problem is that my file that I have to send to a toolmaker must absolutely have the weld seams and he doesn't have solidworks. 

Is there a way to export an assembly in a format that will keep the weld seams? 

Thank you in advance for your answers, 

 

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If it's just for visualization, why not save as an Edrawing, or as an Edrawing executable.

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Because the toolmaker cannot read this kind of file or even import it into his software. 

That's where it gets stuck and where I don't see a solution. 

What is the Edrawing executable? 

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Hello and if you use the "combine" function on your parts in which your weld seams are located, does it make them disappear  when exported?

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I don't see the point of the combine function for my case. 

But I don't understand its interest too, can you tell me more about it and how would it help me? 

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question and if for a test

you create your weld beads via an extrusion instead of your current beads

What's going on?

Is your assembly complex and heavy?

otherwise you can also maybe make screenshots of your drawings with the details of your solderings

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Hello

I agree with @PhilippeB I would do in executable eDarwing.

To do this, create your eDrawing normally, open it and save it in executable mode so that anyone can open it.

Worse still, your toolmaker downloads eDrawings.

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Yes, it's a solution, I can create "fake" cords using extrusion.

But given the number of assemblies I have to export, the number of cords to be redone using extrusion (let's say that there is a lot of them) per assembly, I might as well be honest, it's going to be very very long! During this time, the toolmaker will be on standby and will be behind schedule, and the deadlines will not be met in the end.

In view of your answers, what I'm asking seems infeasible, and I find it a shame to include in soliworks the solder seams function, and not to be able to use it afterwards to work on it under another software because it is not taken into account in the file export. 

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@Coyote,

I'll try your solution and keep you posted.

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Hello

if you have Solidworks 2010 or 2011 you can generate your welds via a function and there you create a weld part. Which was great for neutral file transfer because the solder was a part but they abandoned that from 2012... I liked this position... See the links:

http://www.cadware-utilities.fr/index.php/ressources/default/ShowInLine?file=notices/09-Tolerie_-_mecano-soude/Creation_d-une-piece_cordon_de_soudure_dans_un_fichier_d-assemblage_(avant_SolidWorks_2011).pdf&category=Tolerie_-_mecano-welded&cat=notices&title=Cr%C3%A9ation%20d%27une%20pi%C3%A8ce%20cord%20de%20weld%20in%20un%20file%20d%27assembly%20(before%20SolidWorks%202011)

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@Coyote

This solution does not work...

The integrator is using Catia V5 and is unable to open the eDrawings files.

@ac Cobra

No, unfortunately, I use Solidworks 2016.

 

 

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I also have 2016, but you have evolved with all the versions??? If so, you can tinker. If you have an old version of Solidworks 2010 in your archives, you can install it on your workstation or another and create the welds on your part by first generating a WWTP with 2016...