Weldments functionality enables you to design a weldment structure as a single multibody part.
You use 2D and 3D sketches to define the basic framework. Then you create
structural members containing groups of sketch segments. You can also add items such as
gussets and end caps using tools on the Weldments toolbar.
For more information about weldments, see SOLIDWORKS Tutorials: Weldments by clicking .
When you create the first structural member in a part, a weldment feature
is created and added to the
FeatureManager design tree. The software also creates two default configurations in the
ConfigurationManager: a parent configuration Default[As
Machined] and a derived configuration Default[As Welded].
On a per document basis, you can suppress the automatic
creation of the
[As Welded] configuration. Before adding
weldments to a new document, click
Options
(Standard toolbar). On the
Weldments page of
Document Properties,
clear
Create derived configuration.
You can also configure multiple weldment profiles of structural members
as library features. You can add different configurations of a structural member and
save them as one profile in a library feature. For example, instead of having 50
separate library feature files for square tubing sizes, you can have one library feature
file with 50 configurations that you can control by a design table.
When creating or editing structural members, you can select the
configured library features in the Structural
Member PropertyManager.