Chapter 36
Creating Weldments and Weldment Drawings

Weldments are specialized parts that are similar in some ways to sheet metal parts. They are identified as a special kind of part by a Weldment feature in the FeatureManager, and you use a special set of tools to create and edit them. The specialized part enables specialized functionality such as cut lists, special body trimming functions, and gap creation between bodies.

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IN THIS CHAPTER, YOU WILL LEARN TO:

• Use 3D sketching techniques
• Create weldment-specific features
• Add nonstructural components
• Create sub-weldments
• Understand cut lists
• Place the Weldment Cut List on a drawing

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Weldments in SolidWorks are built on structural profiles along sketch entities in a multibody part environment. Weldment members can be straight or curved, you can make them using standard or custom profiles, and you can build them from both 2D and 3D sketches. A cut list within the multibody part keeps track of the length of each profile that is needed to...