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Question asked by Roy Potter on Dec 6, 2010
Latest reply on Dec 20, 2010 by Patrick Molimard

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Hi,

I have a subweldment that I wanted to place inside another weldment everything ok with the modelling. However solidworks does not treat the inserted part as a subweldment it breaks down all the bodies and places as new cutlist items. This is even more frustrating if I then use another instance in the model.

the inserted part has properties in it that need to be pulled across and used in the cutlist - mainly description and id number.

My question is: why doesn't SW treat inserted weldments as subweldments and keep the bodies together??

or Can it without manually recreating the subweldment??

If the parts had not already been created and usd in an assembly I could have created an assembly of the parts but it's welded on not bolted.

(SW2010)

Roy.

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Dustin Biber Dec 6, 2010 4:28 PM

My recollection was that SolidWorks treated sub-weldments basically as a group of weldment bodies. Highlight the bodies (in feature tree) you want as part of the sub-weldment, right click, create sub-weldment. This is from memory, so exact process may be different.

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Roy Potter @ Dustin Biber on Dec 7, 2010 4:18 AM

Hi Dustin

that's what I don't get. If I create a sub weldment to make on a bench and bring it to another weldment to be welded in place why would I want to break all the parts down to the individual members?

I loose all the automatic funtionality of the cutlist information. Manually updating the cutlist can cause problems in the future if the cutlist is deleted and reinserted.

Roy

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Patrick Molimard @ Roy Potter on Dec 20, 2010 12:25 PM

Hi ,

Here's what I understand of the issue. You have a part #1 that is a weldment and a part #2 that is also a weldment. When inserting the part #2 into the part #1 all the body from the 2 parts are showed in the cut list and your concern is that changing a description of a body in part #2 will not update in part #1. Your right. Inserting a part in a weldments in mainly if you have a purchased or machined part that you would like to be weld in your weldment part. In your case I think the best way is to insert both parts in a assembly. It is betther that way on manufacturing control.

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Dustin Biber Dec 6, 2010 4:28 PM
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My recollection was that SolidWorks treated sub-weldments basically as a group of weldment bodies. Highlight the bodies (in feature tree) you want as part of the sub-weldment, right click, create sub-weldment. This is from memory, so exact process may be different.
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- Roy Potter @ Dustin Biber on Dec 7, 2010 4:18 AM
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  Hi Dustin
  
  that's what I don't get. If I create a sub weldment to make on a bench and bring it to another weldment to be welded in place why would I want to break all the parts down to the individual members?
  
  I loose all the automatic funtionality of the cutlist information. Manually updating the cutlist can cause problems in the future if the cutlist is deleted and reinserted.
  
  Roy
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  - Patrick Molimard @ Roy Potter on Dec 20, 2010 12:25 PM
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    Hi ,
    Here's what I understand of the issue. You have a part #1 that is a weldment and a part #2 that is also a weldment. When inserting the part #2 into the part #1 all the body from the 2 parts are showed in the cut list and your concern is that changing a description of a body in part #2 will not update in part #1. Your right. Inserting a part in a weldments in mainly if you have a purchased or machined part that you would like to be weld in your weldment part. In your case I think the best way is to insert both parts in a assembly. It is betther that way on manufacturing control.
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