how do i identify weldment profile used in model

[bryansonnier]

The draftsman of our company work with a lot of weldments that the other engineers and i have created. It would help for them to have a quick way to identify which weldment profile each member uses. The "built in" way to do it would be to lable the structural member feature with the appropriate profile, however any feature which modified that feature (i.e. cut/extrude) would also have to be labled and be confined only to one type of profile.

Is there a tool or or option to turn on to allow for easy identification like the measure tool or just hover over with mouse.

 

[Eltron]

You can always add a BOM to your parts.

Dan

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[bryansonnier]

The part file is a weldment composed of multiple structural members. Is there a bom auto generated by solidworks which covers this?

 

[Eltron]

I believe you can add the BOM to your part template if you don't want to manually add it, otherwise I am confused at your question.

Dan

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[bryansonnier]

i have a weldment made of various sized pipes and tubes. this is all one part file. the draftsman would like to be able to identify all the different pipe and tube sizes used and gather info on their length as easily as possible.

 

[weevoe]

If you are using the structurals in the solid works weldment profiles, you can then insert a weldment cut list which will have all the structurals listed with lengths. I am assuming you are doing this in a drawing which you can balloon to item number in the cultist.
If you are in the part weldment model you must RMB on the cultist in the feature manager tree and update the cultist before it will come into the drawing correctly.

 

[Eltron]

You can do that in the part by inserting the BOM. Unfortunately there is no AutoBalloon function in parts, so if your weldment is complicated it might be a hassle to figure out what is what without manually inserting balloons.

Dan

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[bryansonnier]

Yes, i've tried these methods, however there are a few Cut/extrude commands that touch multiple sized weldments, like a hole going through three pipes. at that point the weldment cutlist doesn't place any descriptions as to what pipe etc.. all i get is a length and angle.

I think this could be just the way solidworks codes things and i don't think there is a work around possible as it is currently built.

Maybe with more practice with the weldments and their features we might be able to get the cutlist to still reflect what is needed but as of right now i don' think its possible.

 

[Eltron]

Here is an image of a simple weldment. As you can see from the FM there are a couple of cuts and other features added. The BOM still shows the cut list accurately. Is that not what you are asking for?

Dan

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[bryansonnier]

yes that is what i was looking for, i will have to look at the model i was referencing while writing and responding in these posts because the info it produced was not nearly as precise. Thank you.