Hi all,
I have a multi-body weldment where I sketched all the individual tubes and plates and extruded the profile shapes from planes - used these from the Toolbox / Structural Steel library, or just simple extruded the plate rectangles, hoping that in the end, if I converted the whole layout to Weldment, I would have the option of utilizing the Trim / Extend option under Weldments to connect all the pieces nicely. This appears to not be the case. I usually use the structural members for most stuff but this layout was a bit complicated so I just sketched a skeleton line and extruded my shapes. Is it too late to now do some trimmingand extending at the intersection points? I just worked off of centerline workpoints and extruded sketches figuring I could trim/extend later. Perhaps there is a simple fix before I scrap this part? Thanks in advance. I'm on SW2015 still BTW.
PS I did use the structural member toolbox library but only the profiles, not the actual members from dropdown lists as I usually do. I know this is not the correct approach for weldments but thought I'd try this different approach.
Hi Dave,
Even if you are not comfortable with using the weldment environment, I would recommend to use it for your tweaks.
The Toolbox / Structural Steel library is from ancient times and is not used much anymore.
First have a look at the Weldments Tutorial. It takes about 1 hour to complete, but it is time well spent for later.
They use rectangular tubes in the tutorial also.
If you want to go minimal style, you just have to make a new sketch(red in picture below) using convert entities (sketch16 ) and use the weldment profile feature and the trims will be made automatically for your.
Maybe you like it so much that you want to do the whole thing in weldments.
Have a nice weekend,
Eddy
PS: I couldn't attach the solidworks file since I don't have Solidworks 2015 installed and you wouldn't be able to open it.