I haven't had any trouble with this in the past but I can't get it to work this time around. When I toggle back & forth between the drawing & sub weldment I have to update the list every time but it still never shows up in the cultist. I don't know if its stuck in a loop or what.
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I don't seem to have that option anymore. My attach tab is gone.
Thanks for the reply.
I want to create subweldment parts and use cut list for them. I'm assuming this is the natural work flow because, once I sub it out it is no longer detailed on the cut list.
What I did was, create a subweldment and right click on it to select the insert into part command. When the body select prompt pops up, it has the entire weldment slected.
IF I ignore this global selection and hit the green check, only the bodies under the subweldment part will be inserted into the part. However, when inserting the above mentioned part into a drawing and creating a weldment cut list, the cut list remains empty. If I instead clear the before mentioned global selection & select all the bodies again from the graphics area or the feature tree the properties will then carry on into the part & drawing. I'm sure this can't be right because it doesn't;t make sense to select them twice and there isn't really a way, that I saw, to add or change it once I completed the operation.
Daniel,
I had a look, never used it before though and this is strange. It behaves exactly as you are saying.
If I just selected the sub weldment and rmc > insert into new part
I got something like this in the part. A is where SoildWorks is reading from and B is where the info about the weldment are.
But if I selected it like this guy here Solidworks Weldments Essential 14 Create sub weldment - YouTube
and like you were saying. I turned down the volume when I was watching the video because I did not understand what he was saying but I followed on about what he was doing.
Then I got this.
That gave me what you wanted on the drawing.
I would probably try to open the weldment library parts you are using and save them as your current version of SolidWorks and see what that does. Have not done it like this before so I´m only guessing on the solution.
Hey Daniel,
Can you please attach your part?