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SOLIDWORKS Weldments Course Overview

The SOLIDWORKS Weldment Training course is designed to teach participants how to create welded structures using standard structural members and weld beads. This course is essential for anyone looking to master the design and assembly of complex weldment structures in SOLIDWORKS. Before enrolling in this weldments training, participants must have completed the SOLIDWORKS Essentials Training.

For those interested in further exploring SOLIDWORKS capabilities or enrolling in training programs, additional resources and course options are available, including SOLIDWORKS Sheet Metal, Advanced Part Modeling, and Surface Modeling.

 

 

Skills Learned:

  • Inserting Non-Weldment Parts: Learn to insert and manage parts that are not originally part of the weldment structure, integrating them seamlessly into your designs.
  • Designing with Wooden Profiles: Quickly design structures such as wooden picnic tables by combining various parts and profiles.
  • Trimming and Extending Structural Members: Master the techniques for managing how weldments join and build intelligence into members to automate detailing and cut-lists.
  • Adding Gussets and End Caps: Strengthen your weldment designs with gussets and ensure a professional finish by automatically capping off open tubes.
  • Using the Structure System: Utilize the advanced weldment environment to combine and manage many structural members within a single feature.
  • Working with Bent Tubing: Gain insights into handling bent structural members, crucial for creating complex welded designs.
SOLIDWORKS Weldments Training

Course Duration

2 Days  (7 hours/day)

Prerequisites

SOLIDWORKS Weldments Course

Access to SOLIDWORKS

Completion of SOLIDWORKS Getting Started Tutorials 1-4

Onsite Training

Course Examples

Insert Part
Insert & manage non-weldment parts into weldment structure files
Wooden Profiles
Quickly design a wooden picnic table; combine numerous parts & profiles
Trim & Extend Structural Members
Manage how weldments join and build intelligence into members to automate detailing cut-lists
Gusseting & End Caps
Add strength with the gusset command and automatically cap off open tubes
Structure System
Advanced weldment environment to combine and manage many structural members in one feature
Bent Tubing
Working with bent structural members

SOLIDWORKS Weldments Course Syllabus

Lesson 1: Weldment Features

  • Weldments
    • Weldment Feature
    • Weldment Configuration Options
  • Structural Members
    • The Default Profiles
    • Weldment Profiles from SOLIDWORKS Content
    • What is a Structural Member Profile?
    • Inserting Structural Member
    • Weldment Profiles Folder Structure
    • Groups
    • Corner Treatment Options
    • Individual Corner Treatments
    • Profile Position Settings
  • Groups vs Structural Members
    • Trim/Extend Options
    • Sketch Considerations
    • Trim Order
  • Adding Plates and Holes
  • Gussets and End Caps
    • Gusset Profile and Thickness
    • Locating the Gusset
    • End Cap Parameters
  • Using Symmetry
  • Advantages of a Multibody Part
  • Limitations of a Multibody Part
  • Exercise 1: Sign Holder
  • Exercise 2: Weld Table
  • Exercise 3: Suspension Frame
  • Exercise 4: Evaporator Support

Lesson 2: Working with Weldments

  • Managing the Cut List
  • Cut List Item Names
  • Accessing Properties
  • Cut-List Properties Dialog
  • Structural Member Properties
  • Adding Cut List Properties
  • Bounding Boxes in Weldments
    • Editing a Bounding Box
  • Options for Generating Cut List Items
    • Manually Managing Cut List Items
    • Creating Sub-weldments
    • Using Selection Filters
  • Custom Structural Member Profiles
    • Modifying a Profile
    • Transferred Information from Profiles
  • Defining Material
  • Creating Custom Profiles
  • Standard or Configured Profiles
  • Inserting Existing Parts
    • Locate Part and Move and Copy Body
  • When to Use an Assembly
  • Exercise 5: Weld Table Cut List
  • Exercise 6: Picnic Table
  • Exercise 7: Insert Part

Lesson 3: Configuring and Detailing Weldments

  • Weldment Configurations
    • Adding Configurations
  • Post-Assembly Machining Features
    • Feature Scope
  • Weldment Drawings
  • Drawing Views of Individual Bodies
    • Select Drawing View Bodies
    • Using Display States
    • Isolate
    • Using Relative View
    • Cut List Tables
  • Representing Welds
    • Weld Symbols
    • Other Weld Annotations
    • Fillet Beads
    • Weld Bead Feature
    • Weld Tables
  • Exercise 8: Detail Picnic Table
  • Exercise 9: Representing Welds

Lesson 4: Working with Bent Structural Members

  • Working with Bent Structural Members
  • 3D Sketching
    • Using Reference Planes
    • Space Handle
    • Subset of Sketch Entities and Relations
    • Creating a 3D Sketch Plane
    • Active Planes
    • Visibility controls
    • Merge Arc Segment Bodies
    • Optional: Finishing Details
  • Exercise 10: Chair Frame
  • Exercise 11: Bent Tubing, Sheet Metal, and Assemblies

Lesson 5: Introduction to Structure System

  • Structure System
  • Primary vs Secondary Members
    • Primary Member Types
  • Secondary Members
    • Corner Management
  • Exercise 12: Shed Frame

Lesson 6: Working with Structure System

  • Managing the Cut List
  • Case Study
  • Gussets and End Caps
  • Bounding Boxes in Structure System
  • Exercise 13: Table Frame

Lesson 7: Defining and Inserting Connection Elements

  • Connections
  • Case Study
  • Define Connection Element
    • Feature Propagation
    • Dimension Group
  • Insert Connection Element
    • Cut Scope
    • L Clips
    • Mid Plane Selection
    • Patterning Connection Elements
    • Beam Splice
  • Exercise 14: Intersecting Column & Beam

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