Can I use one weldment model for different materials

I would like to be able to use the same weldment model for both carbon
steel and stainless steel. In other words, have two seperate cut
lists based on configurations.

Is this possible? If so, how?

Using SW2007

Thanks in advance.

 

Bruce,

You can set different material for different configuration. So you
must get two different cut list.

Deepak Gupta
SW2007 SP5.0
SW2009 SP2.1
http://gupta9665.wordpress.com/

 

I thought that would work too, but I cannot figure out how to do it.
I have a weldment cut list, but it seems to only work with one set of
materials.
Do I make additional children off of the machined configurations?

 

You will need to use suppression states in your different configs to
delete the bodies that are not of the same material. If you use this
method, I would suggest creating a master, or default configuration
that has all of the weldment parts in it, and child config's with
different suppresion states.

I was using this same technique this morning to send some components
to a laser cutter. I created a config "Lasercut" and deleted the
bodies I didn't want that supplier to send me, ie, RHS, and Barstock
parts.

In reality, you can weld different materials together, and use
different materials for the filler also. Solidworks doesn't have the
functionality to do this properly yet. The weldment features are
improving, so fingers crossed for the future...

 

Thanks for the input. I'll play with it a bit and see if it works for
me.
My concern is that it will be complicated to support. But it might be
simpler than maintaining seperate files for each material.