Weldment Presentation, One Day Summit, Boston June 20

Hello-

I'm scheduled to give a Weldment presentation this June 20 at the Boston One
Day Summit. I encourage everyone to attend this Summit. Here is a link for
more information:
http://www.swugn.org/pages/summit/SWUGN_Technical_Summit_Boston.html

I'm looking for questions, topics of interest, suggestions, or any feedback
that will be of some benefit. Tips and Tricks is the suggested format of
this presentation.

If you respond and provide your e-mail, either here or in private, I will be
happy to send my presentation and files to you immediately after the Summit.
Copies will also be available to those who attend.

If you respond and attend the Weldment presentation, your name will go into
a hat for a drawing of a nice little prize.

Thanks in advance,
Devon T. Sowell

www.3-ddesignsolutions.com

 

Don't mirror extruded features, only mirror bodies otherwise it will
screw up your CutList (and maybe more?). Remember that you might not be
able to get the correct Hole Callout (in the drawing) on any Hole
Wizard holes on the mirrored body that existed on the body that was
mirrored. Also, once you've mirrored a feature, the Mirror can only be
modified to mirror other features...you can not change the Mirror
Feature to instead mirror bodies, so you're forced to delete the mirror
and put another mirror feature in selecting Bodies this time (the same
goes for the vice-versa instance).

To leave an item out of the Cutlist...simply do not have the Solid Body
in a CutList Item Folder. I beleave you have to turn the 'Automatic'
option off to do this as well.

If using Structural Members, (multiple) 2D planes are useful to control
the underlying 3D sketch (helps take out a lot of the clutter in the 3D
sketch, and make it easier to modify later). Or you can use planes
defined within the 3D sketch. Personally I still use the former methed
(probably more out of habit).

In the drawing, use Relative View to get a view containing only one of
the solid bodies.

This is more of a multi-body topic, but it might be worth
mentioning...The Move/Copy Body feature is great for moving a solid
body. I use it mostly for assemblies that I downloaded from the
Internet and I did a SaveAs Part to them so I'd only have one part
number to deal with in my BoM (like a purchased pneumatic cylinder or
slide that comes in SW as separate parts for a body, rod, piston, slide
table, etc..) But you never know, maybe you've gotten all the way to
the end of your Weldment design and decide that one of the bodies needs
moved, and you don't want to risk messing up all your existing
relations, so the last feature could be to move the body over. As for
the Move/Copy Body function itself, the Translate/Rotate method is best
for moving a body a certain distance/angle (like extend cylinder 3"),
whereas the Constraints method is best if you're trying to orientate a
body relative to some other geometry (like move this body such that
it's face is flat against another bodies face).

Later,
Ken

 

Thanks , Ken. those are some excellent tips.

All tips will be acknowledged.

Thanks,
Devon