Hi, recently I have been beginning designing support frames for small things like tables and such. I have tried to use the study advisor to get my simulation going but without result. I think that is because of wrong work flow. What i do now is design the frame, add few weldments in the form of gaussed/filled bead and then try to push it through the simulation.

Here is my problem:

1. Probably wrong work process

2. Non-success simulation due to multiple errors when i try to simulate my frame.

Question:

1. What would be a good working process? (drawing>weldments>simulation?)

I have tried to look for tutorials and other things regarding this problem but most of weldment tutorials focus on adding structual members from the sketch and then stop. I have a hard time finding a tutorial or directions of how to actually "connect" all the structure member together so i can do some analyses with the complete frame. A sample of what kind of frames im doing is in the figure below:

Thanks in advanced