Weldments & Plates
Weldments & Plates
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Been using solidworks for a couple of months now and I am absolutely loving the weldment features. The only problem I have is when I am adding plates on top of my skids. Right now I basically make a box extruding it the thickness of my plate and making the appropiate cut outs.
Then I have to go into the cut list and fill in all of the information and link it to the dimensions I put in. I am looking for an idea that where I could do the following
Make my box, extrude it or select a thickness.
Have it automatically populate the cutlist properties with
the description I need, link it to the thickness (extrude) variable and the shortest of the length and width. Then populate the length propert with the longest length.
And automatically assign the material to A36.
Could i do this with a weldment profile, or do I need an API and some programming to do this. I can't seem to think it through using a weldment profile and I don't quite have enough experience to pull it off with an API yet.
Any suggestions.
Cadnutcase
SW 2006.
Thanks in advance
Then I have to go into the cut list and fill in all of the information and link it to the dimensions I put in. I am looking for an idea that where I could do the following
Make my box, extrude it or select a thickness.
Have it automatically populate the cutlist properties with
the description I need, link it to the thickness (extrude) variable and the shortest of the length and width. Then populate the length propert with the longest length.
And automatically assign the material to A36.
Could i do this with a weldment profile, or do I need an API and some programming to do this. I can't seem to think it through using a weldment profile and I don't quite have enough experience to pull it off with an API yet.
Any suggestions.
Cadnutcase
SW 2006.
Thanks in advance






RE: Weldments & Plates
RE: Weldments & Plates
The profiles would need to be a cross-section of the stock, and you will need seperate profiles for each cross-section. The weldment feature will end up determining the cut length.
The easiest thing to do is copy and existing profile and edit the sketch and properties accordingly. Make sure they are in a folder that the File Locations for weldment profiles point to.
RE: Weldments & Plates
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RE: Weldments & Plates
Know I think the situation is going to be the same. I think the problem stems from only one dimension being known at the time. Every plate is a different width and length everytime. Most of the time they aren't tied in to lengths and widths anyways.
I was hoping there would be a macro floating out there in cyberspace to do determine the envelope dimensions and link the values accoringly. Oh well.
RE: Weldments & Plates
Windows 2000 Professional / Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
SolidWorks 2006 SP02.0 / SpaceBall 4000 FLX
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Lava Lamp
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RE: Weldments & Plates
It is just sometimes I might have 15-20 plates per skid.
Just looking for thoughts on an easier way.
RE: Weldments & Plates
RE: Weldments & Plates
RE: Weldments & Plates
Windows 2000 Professional / Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
SolidWorks 2006 SP02.0 / SpaceBall 4000 FLX
Diet Coke with Lime / Dark Chocolate
Lava Lamp
www.Tate3d.com