Overview
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Walks you through building weldments and fabricated models in SOLIDWORKS.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- Using the exercise files
- What are weldments, and why should we use them?
- Creating construction planes
- Sketching in 2D
- Sketching in 3D
- Adding structural members
- Creating groups
- Flipping and mirroring
- Working with joints
- Trimming members
- Braces and brackets
- Creating custom profiles
- Downloading profiles
- Making an assembly from a weldment
- Patterning and mirroring
- Adding in nonweldment parts
- Adding in weld beads
- Working with the Cut list
- Creating a bounding box
- Creating a basic weldment drawing
- Adding the Cut list to the drawing
- Adding in a weld table
- Fabrication tips and tricks
- Fabrication resources
- Wrapping up
