Welding Beads

I have a VERY simple assembly of a piece of angle iron that has flat
plate being welded to it on its edge like ">I" (I know really pushing
SW here).

When I try and add a weld bead between the two parts it does not like
it all. The angle iron has a rad of about 0.6mm - is that the problem.
I have tried cheating by mating the two parts at -0.5mm on surfaces to
increase the amount of join but with no joy.

Any thoughts?

 

Do you need to have the weld bead in the modeled assembly?
Or can you just show the weld in the drawing using the 'Caterpillar' weld in
drawing mode.

That's what I do,

Richard

 

I don't have to, and on such a simple assembly it was more a question
of wanting to. What I have done is to put a cut in my angle iron and
then the weld works fine as it is dealing with multiple entities. Where
it struggles is the arc of the angle of the angle iron as there is no
end to the geometry until it reaches the other side of the plate. This
is a classic example of real world manufacturing v CAD design.

 

Assembly welds are a PITA!

Try using a weldment (multi-body part). If the "Fillet Bead" feature does
not work for your situation then it's very easy to create a regular extrude
or swept boss (manual weld bead) because you're in a part not an assembly.

hth