WELDMENTS STRATEGY

[TateJ]

I know I'm late for the dance... but I just started looking at WELDMENTS for a potential project. As near as I can figure - I have 2 options:

1 - Make the weldments in one part. Then insert that part into an assembly & mate things like decking or grating on top & plates on the bottom for anchoring. Then my fab drawing will have a bill of materials & a cut-list.

2 - Create custom weldment profiles so I can put all the decking & plates in the weldment part. Now my drawing only has the cut list. But I suspect that it'd be easier to mate these parts in an assembly - rather than creating extra sketches in a weldment part just to keep everything in the weldment.

Am I grasping this correctly?

Windows 2000 Professional / Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
SolidWorks 2005 SP04.0 / SpaceBall 4000 FLX
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[miller7778]

I rarely use welments, but when I do it makes more sense to use technique 1 using the weldment for the basic framework. External attachments to that framework are made as just that, external attachments.

 

[TateJ]

Actually - my buddy Herm - showed me how I can add another body to my weldment part & manually put it in the cut list... much easier than I first thought.

Still kicking this around though...

Windows 2000 Professional / Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer
SolidWorks 2005 SP04.0 / SpaceBall 4000 FLX
Lava Lamp​