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Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature

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

I believe all the profiles are in [SwInstallDir]\data\weldment profiles.  Copy one of these, rename it what you want, and modify the profile sketch.

RE: Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature

Another method is explained step by step in the SW Help files under weldments, custom profiles.

cheers
Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature

Dunno if this was in 2006, but in 2007 try this for a start:

Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer/AI student

RE: Adding Custom Selections in Structural Member feature

Two other things that might come in handy creating custom weldment profiles:

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

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