I can't seem to get the Assembly Feature/Weld Bead.... to work?
I can't seem to get the Assembly Feature/Weld Bead.... to work?
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Hi, my first post here, so I hope someone can help? I have an assembly made up of 4 parts. A machined Top, 2 machined end pieces and 1 U shaped fabricated part. the 2 ends butt weld to the top and the U shape completes the assembly with a bead weld all round the perimeter. I am trying to use the Weld Bead option in Solidworks and no matter what I try, it just won't do it. I select 'mating faces' and 'top faces', but when ever I click finish, I get 'selected faces from different components must share at least one coincident edge for this weld bead operation' I have mated the whole assembly up and tried different faces mating edges and not faces and it just won't work! I have never used the weld facility on SolidWorks before and even the tutorial is not helping me. I hope there is someone here who can guide me as to where I am going wrong. Attached jpg of the assembly (if it works). Thanks, Stu






RE: I can't seem to get the Assembly Feature/Weld Bead.... to work?
Do a search here for "weld".
thread559-160750: How to add a weld to a flat face and the side of a tube?
http://www.kxcad.net/solidworks/SolidWorks_59.html
thread559-203398: welding a cylinder tangent to plane
thread559-187660: I need to learn to weld.
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
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RE: I can't seem to get the Assembly Feature/Weld Bead.... to work?
Stu
RE: I can't seem to get the Assembly Feature/Weld Bead.... to work?
Are you able to zip and post the files for testing?
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-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)
RE: I can't seem to get the Assembly Feature/Weld Bead.... to work?
Sometimes it takes a lot of fussing to get that type of feature to work (a common complaint in my experience). For what it is worth, in the past I have just gone ahead and modelled the beads from scratch and then mated them into my assembly.
ChrisG
RE: I can't seem to get the Assembly Feature/Weld Bead.... to work?
I made a material "weld 1", "weld 2" , ... All with appearance black and custom properties.
Sometimes we weld assemblys with different and special alloys and so you can even put them in a table to.
Noxi
SW2008SP4
RE: I can't seem to get the Assembly Feature/Weld Bead.... to work?
I have attached the assembly in a zip file if any one fancies the challenge (SW2008) :p
Stu
RE: I can't seem to get the Assembly Feature/Weld Bead.... to work?
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
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