Hi all
I'm testing the welded build module in SolidWorks.
I understood how to implant profiles from my skeleton.
I would like to add welded fixing soles on my structure. I would like these parts to be mechanically welded elements, or even add them to the library later.
What do you think is the best way to make these footings if I want them to be recognized by SolidWorks as structural elements?
Ps: I'm going to a meeting, I'll answer in an hour
Thank you:)
Aurélien
Hello
For your insoles to be recognized as bodies, you don't have to do anything except uncheck merge the bodies when you create your function.
If the 4 insoles are exactly identical, SolidWorks will recognize them as a single body (present 4 times).
You can only include profiles in the mechanically welded library it seems to me, so it will not be possible to integrate your insoles.
Hello Aurélien,
If these insoles are recurrent (article always the same?), you could make them a part in their own right (sldprt) and insert it into your welded construction (Inserting a part into a part, by doing Insertion/Piece). You can constrain it as in an assembly, repeat it,...
Be careful when inserting parts because depending on the way of proceeding you have to insert 5 of them to see 4 in the nomenclature of the drawing (cf use of a repetition)
@Gerald
What are you referring to? You mean the opposite, that when you insert 4 you see 5 in nomenclature?
If that's what you're talking about, it may be due to repetitions driven by a sketch: in the sketch, at the level of the component to be repeated, you shouldn't place sketch points, otherwise you end up with a repeated entity that is superimposed on the original one. If you want to "hang on" to the volume to repeat, you have to use another entity that does not have a dot, like a line.