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Weldment Profile Problems

Weldment Profile Problems

Weldment Profile Problems

(OP)
I am haveing a lot of problems with getting my weldment profiles to work when adding a structural member.  I have created a folder system like this:  
Weldment Profiles/ANSI/Square Tube.  Under Square Tube, I have two different parts that I saved as libray features.  One is called 3 x 3 x 11 Ga.sldlfp, and the other is 2 x 2 x 11 Ga.sldlfp.  When I go to create a structural member, they do not show up.  Then I decided to add one of the default folders to see if it worked, so I copied the folder Rectangular Tube under Solidworks/Data/Weldment Profiles, and copied it under the Weldment Profiles/ANSI directory.  The wierd thing is that when I go to create the struct. member, I see ANSI under the Standard selection, I can go to either rectangular tube or square tube under the Type selection, but either way I get the profiles of the rectangular tube under the Size selection.  Even if I have Square tube selected as the type.  Before I copied rectangular tube to this folder I didn't see anything in the size box.  I'm using SW 2005 SP1.1.  Anybody have any ideas as to what is going on?

RE: Weldment Profile Problems

(OP)
I got it working, it had something to do with the file name square tube I guess.  I could move my files to the rectangular tube folder and they would work.  I just renamed the square tube folder to sq. tube and then the files showed up in that one also.  Not sure why, but at least its working now.

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