ID mark on each weld on a drawing

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Hello

For a need for traceability of each weld, in a drawing, I need to have a unique number on each weld to easily differentiate them.

Is this possible? 

Thanks in advance,

Lionel Comte

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Hello Lionel,

I interpret your request, I guess you want you to be able to say unequivocally on such and such a mechanical welding part, it's the N°12 or the N°13 that has this or that (example fatigue).

I have the impression that this can only be done through an annotation. Which seems possible to me when you define your welding in the design.

[HS On]

On the other hand, a little outside of your request (sorry) how will you do if you have several versions of the same play. I'm telling you this because I had a similar case where a version had two welds and the following 3 but not placed in the same place following after-sales feedback.

[HS /Off]

EDIT looks at  the properties because they appear in the tables  http://help.solidworks.com/2017/French/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_Custom_Properties_in_Weldments.htm?id=49902f2443a0483d86fcc76d74329c0a#Pg0 on the other hand I have never tried to see what it does in the MEP or more interesting in the Nomenclature.

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There are welding tables that allow you to list the welds but you have to create the "bubbles" and manually point the welds...

http://help.solidworks.com/2020/French/SolidWorks/sldworks/c_weld_table.htm

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In fact, I want to be able to identify each weld and each part independently.

The problem I have today is that solidworks is not natively able to output a bill of materials with each part in quantity 1. That is to say that even if I have 2 identical parts, I want 2 lines in quantity 1 in my nomenclature rather than a single line in quantity 2.

All this so that our production can identify/trace each weld. Today, the weld between part 01 and 02 is denoted S01-02 (hence a unique part number to identify each weld)

The soldering table has the same problem. If 2 welds are identical, it only puts one line in my nomenclature in quantity 2 with that I want 2 lines in quantity 1.

And for your zozo question, I would make 2 plans because in the end, they are not the same parts (2 or 3 welds) so 2 configurations with a weld management in your 3D (if you are not under PDM) or 2 different prt (if you are under PDM)

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Hello Lionel,

Thank you for the info on what you want to do, it's always very interesting to see other people's problems because it opens the mind or at least brings knowledge.

I can hardly see anything but a program adapted to do what you want, which surely means VBA API and all the trembling. Surely @D.Roger will be able to guide you on the subject because I am not competent in this field.

Kind regards