Sheet metal items in weldments

I have the need to create a weldment which consists of a few different
structural members and two folded sheet metal plates. I can create the
initial sheet metal component, but cannot insert a second sheet metal
item.

Does anyone know of any techniques to make this work correctly?

 

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Hi,
Do one thing, first create a 3D sketch of ur model and then insert the
weldments, it will reduce errors...and control the weldments by using
the 3D sketchs......

Regards,
Raghu Prashanth V

 

With sheet metal you can only have one part no multi bodies. What I have
done in the past is create the sheet metal components seperately from
the weldment and then you can insert the sheet metal parts into the
weldment part via drag and drop or insert-part... you can then mate the
part as if it were an assembly in 2007.

One thing to keep in mind is that you need to rebuild the part each time
the sheet metal is changed to make sure the parts are the same.

Not the best solution but the only one that works for me.

Make sure to add multibody sheet metal parts to the enhancement list at
SolidWorks website

Ben
www.SolidMentor.com

p.s. Post the same question at www.SolidMentor.com and some of the other
news groups out there like the solidworks yahoo group to get some other
alternatives to this.

 

Just a thought:

Insert both sheet metal items into a third part into which the
structural members also reside. The sheet metal items will stand alone
in their own parts but will be incorporated into the weldment. This
will not allow referencing the whole to define the sheet metal parts
unless you have another part which consists of surfaces and planes
which you would use as a template for the whole thing and have it
inserted into all three for reference.

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