Robust, associative procedure for making weldments
Robust, associative procedure for making weldments
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Does anyone know a good procedure for making a fully associative weldment, from development through a final machined part in SW 2007, (not a machined assembly)? The options I've seen online and in classes so far always disassociates the individual development pieces after the assembly stage so any modification to them, (i.e. chamfering for v-notch welds, changes in plate thickness due to supply, etc) doesn't show up on the final machined part. Machined assemblies with "Weld beads" create too many extra files for a PDM to keep up with.
I've been doing this with large weldments (>50 pieces) for 10 years in Pro-E but haven't ran across a good method in SW yet. Any suggestions?
Thanks
I've been doing this with large weldments (>50 pieces) for 10 years in Pro-E but haven't ran across a good method in SW yet. Any suggestions?
Thanks






RE: Robust, associative procedure for making weldments
If you need separate drawings of pieces of the weldment (or separate views on the overall drawing), then it might be best to model them separately and use "insert part" to add them to the weldment model.
Regards,
John
RE: Robust, associative procedure for making weldments
RE: Robust, associative procedure for making weldments
Why do you disassociate the individual development pieces (bodies) from your weldment part? You can make a drawing for each body (piece) in your drawing of the weldment part. They are fully associative.
Good luck!
Alex
RE: Robust, associative procedure for making weldments
RE: Robust, associative procedure for making weldments
Does that actually work? I haven't tried in a while, but if I remember correctly hiding bodies either didn't work, or it messed up the CutList (I think the latter one).
The best way I know of to get a detail view of just one body in a multi-body part is to insert a "Relative View" into the drawing.
Ken