Hello,
I'm using the weldment tool to make what amounts to a metal box, but with lots of little details that make life complicated. The driving dimensions of the entire thing are the physical envelope it can contain. Since there are thousands of different possibilities for altering these parameters, I'm trying to automate the process. I have an editable template, but you have to modify each feature individually.
What's really slowing everything down is that there is no way to drive weldment profile selection. Is there any way I can make this automatic, while still having cut list properties update properly? Basically link the selection of the appropriate profile to other specifiable parameters? Default pierce points and such can be fixed- I just want a way to hand this template to all my engineers so they only have to key in a few parameters and go.
tl;dr I want weldment profiles driven by design tables
You can link the description note to pull directly from the dimensions. Edit your Cut List properties, and select the description of your weldment body. Highlight one of the values representing the profile width, and then double click your weldment feature. Once your dimensions appear, you can click the one you need and it will be added to your description. Any changes to the dimension will update the desription as well.