Showing welds in the drawing package? 2

[pconnor]

Pro/Weld shows up as surface data in the drawing package and will not give the standard filled triangle where two plates come together. Pro/Weld will generate the correct drawing text for the weld but the actual display of the weld sucks. This renders the weld package useless. I have tried to work arround this by modeling datum curves then change hatching to get the desired result then turning them off and on by layer by view. The time associated with doing this on machine base weldments makes me want to get the drafting boards out of storage, this is less productive than even the most basic 2D package! IS ANYONE CREATING WELDMENT DRAWINGS USING PRO?

 

[cranekiran]

That's a very good question.If there was a star rating for the best question ,This is the one.
As a matter of fact,I wanted a solution for this problem too but was wondering how to ask.

 

[atlarson]

In my opinion, this is one of the areas where PTC has tried to automate and paramaterize a design process that was better left the old fashioned way. Unless you are programming welding robots online, what is the advantage of modeling welds in 3D?

When detailing weldments, I just place the weld callout symbols manually. If I want to add a graphic depiction of a fillet or bevel weld bead, I use another symbol consisting of a filled-in right triangle. If you create such a symbol, make the two equal legs 1 inch (or 1 mm) long, its height "variable - drawing units", and place the origin at the 90 degree corner. It is then very easy to place this symbol on the appropriate vertex, and rotate and scale it to produce the desired result.

 

[3dlogix]

I use the Pro/WELD module whenever possible. Here are my reasons:

1-Beacuse of large assemblies, I often have various detail views, where the weld symbols can be switched from one to another. Placing them by hand my cause some problems, like forgetting them.

2-I get to visually see a weld surface in the 3D model. This is helpful for my clients.

3-I am not a weld-expert, but have a better time creating the 3D welds with the required options (fillet, groove...) than if I was to make them as symsbols in the drawing.

4-I can do a mass props using the weld density.

5-ProE gives you a weld BoM list (weld rod sizes, total weld lengths...) that you could not get by symbols alone.

6-Making the welds a bright yellow is cool (just kidding!!).

Sometimes when ProE does not allow me to create a 3D weld, I will manualy insert the symbol.

Steve

http://www.3dlogix.com