Adding Gussets

You can add gusset features between two adjoining planar faces. Gussets can have triangular or polygonal profiles. In this lesson, you add triangular gussets to the four front corners of the weldment part.

1. Click Trimetric (Standard Views toolbar), then zoom to the lower left corner of the model.
2. Click Gusset (Weldments toolbar).
3. In the PropertyManager, click .
4. Under Supporting Faces , select the two faces as shown.
   
5. Under Profile:
   1. Click Triangular Profile .
   2. Set Profile Distance1 and Profile Distance2 to 50.
   3. Click Inner Side .
   4. Set Gusset Thickness to 5.
   You can allow room for a weld bead under the gusset by creating a chamfered gusset.
6. Under Location, click Profile Locates at Mid Point .
7. Click .
   
8. Repeat steps 4 through 7 to add gussets to the other three corners of Structural Member1, as shown. The distances, thickness, and parameters are already set to match the first gusset.
   
9. Click to close the PropertyManager.
   In the FeatureManager design tree, Gusset1 through Gusset4 appear. The Cut list is incremented and the gussets are listed in the Cut-List-Item10(4) folder.