Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature
Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature
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The Structural Member feature on the Weldments toolbar makes turning wireframe drawings into tubular frames very simple. There are only a handful of possible diameters and thickness available for pipes. I need to be able to tell Solidworks to add a new selection with my custom dimensions.






RE: Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature
RE: Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature
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RE: Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student
RE: Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
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RE: Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature
1st, create your basic part, then use the dimensions in your description, like this:
UNP"D1@Sketch2@120.SLDPRT"
will result in:
UNP120
Just change the dimension and the description changes with it.
Now (in explorer) go to the folder you saved your new weldment profile in, drag with right mouse button to make a new copy.
Rename your new copy to the next profile size you want to make.
Then double click it. Windows will ask you what to do, select 'Select the program from a list', make sure the 'always use the selected program to open this kind of file' box is checken and choose solidworks from the list.
This way double clicking a sldlfp just opens in solidworks directly, so you can quickly change the dimensions of your file to correspond with the new filename.
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student