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Solidworks weldment question.

Question asked by Michael Stalter on May 17, 2017
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In SWX weldment. is it possible to offset the structural component from the sketch line like it is in Inventor Frame Generator?

Deepak Gupta May 18, 2017 9:17 AM

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If I understand your need, you have two options:

Use locate profile option and pick the desired point in the profile to place the profile. You can edit a profile and add placement points as needed.
Use move/copy under features to move the body as desired away from sketched line.

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Deepak Gupta May 18, 2017 9:17 AM
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If I understand your need, you have two options:
1. Use locate profile option and pick the desired point in the profile to place the profile. You can edit a profile and add placement points as needed.
2. Use move/copy under features to move the body as desired away from sketched line.
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- Michael Stalter @ Deepak Gupta on May 18, 2017 9:43 AM
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  Thanks Deepak. That worked. I edited the sketch for the structural member (3" square tubing), selected the items in the sketch, and moved the items to where I wanted them to be. I wanted the tubing to be tangent to the 3d weldment sketch line instead of centered on it. Easy Peasy. I'm very new to SWX, about a month now. I came from an Inventor background (12 yrs).
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  - Glenn Schroeder @ Michael Stalter on May 18, 2017 10:04 AM
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    Welcome to SolidWorks. I hope you like it. I'm pretty sure you will if you'll keep an open mind and learn how things work instead of getting upset that SW doesn't work like Inventor (and so far I haven't seen anything to indicate that that's been a problem for you).
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    - Michael Stalter @ Glenn Schroeder on May 18, 2017 10:44 AM
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      Thanks Glenn. I like it a lot. They're very similar and I've already found most of the frequently used functionality I used in Inventor plus a bunch more that SWX has. It's as good or better than Inventor.
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J. Mather May 18, 2017 9:32 AM
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Yes
Well sort of, if by "offset" you are referring to a placement point and not a distance from that point.
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- Michael Stalter @ J. Mather on May 18, 2017 9:45 AM
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  Thanks J. Mather, a picture is worth a thousand words and you put together a great comparison OF SWX vs Inventor.
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