Sheet Metal Weldment?

[D3sign3r]

I'm trying to create a weldment made up of several cut sheet metal stampings then mig-welded together. Is there a way to build a sheet metal weldment within a .sldprt environment? It appears SW only allows one sheet metal profile within a part file. Im trying to avoid creating multiple part files and combining it in a .sldasm file.

I use the weldment features all the time, but this is the first time I’ve come across a sheet metal issue.

Im using sw06 sp3

thx,
pj

 

[MElam]

Is there a reason for avoiding creating the assembly?

I have found it is usually much easier to create the assembly file than to avoid it.

 

[D3sign3r]

No reason. But i'd like to take advantage of the Weldment feature and have just one file for an assembly. Plus it gives me a Cut-list and other features.

 

[J-C]

You can do an "Insert Part" in your weldment and insert the sheetmetal part into your weldment part. And now with swx2006, the Move/Copy body command has mate options which should make positioning the sheetmetal part fairly easy.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2005 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
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