Solidworks Weldments

[@trawlmybait]

That was a great tutorial. Way better then the ones on solidworks channel. Nice work!

[@cheedu100]

I loved the video, your sense of humour even better! thank you!

[@RixtronixLAB]

Nice info,thanks for sharing it with us, well done :)

[@egorlololMV]

Very useful, thank you

[@naeimreset]

awesome and super helpful thanks for uploading this video.

[@robinsarmientocad]

muy buena el video saludos de Peru carajo :)

[@joe_limon]

To add gussets, you need to define the plane you want them in by creating new reference planes that are constrained by your sketch/other geometry. Then perform a midplane extrude and sketch in the shape of gusset you desire. Before you accept the extrude, make sure you have the "merge result" option unchecked. This will allow you to create a multi body part.

[@joe_limon]

I exclude copes during fea to simplify the model which allows for faster rebuilds, and to prevent any possible issues with regard to ram space in more complex models.

[@joe_limon]

This happens to you when you have over constrained your sketch. To solve this you have two options. Thinking through and gauging which constraints you want/need to constrain your sketch, or, delete red/yellow constraints till the conflict disappears, then constraining the newly unconstrained blue lines.

[@joe_limon]

Right click on your toolbar and make sure you have "weldments" selected. Or, go to the top menu Insert/Weldments/Structural Members The key for designing with 3d sketches is to pay attention to your drawing axis. These show up as two red arrows at the origin, and it moves to wherever you put new lines. Simply by rotating your view they will "snap" to different axis allowing you to draw lines in the direction you intended.

[@joe_limon]

There are standard 2d sketches and then there are 3d sketches. In solidworks, you need to press the little arrow beside the sketch button. This will give you the option to make a 3d sketch.

[@cbparker44]

Great video, thanks for sharing that :) Do you know how you would add guessets to pipe? I would like to design a roll cage but I'm new to SW and I can't seem to figure out how to add gussets to pipe that I've used. Any help would be appreciated, Thanks man

[@CopaSeticBeats]

when your line wasn't lined up properly, you had options to assign them to a certain axis... I am using solidworks 2013 and I don't have those options, it only tells me that I can make it horizontal or Vertical, would u know why?

[@humanmissile]

do you exclude copes from your frame on purpose? i have been trying to run FEA on a tube frame chassis and the copes and small beam members give me issues...

[@user-Clint315]

Helpful thanks!

[@joe_limon]

What would you gain by merging the members to each other?

[@avenginobiela]

Hello, what you do when the item have Unsolvable/Conflict? Here appears many colors, why not your?

[@MrXYZ86]

Yeah, weldments are great for creating complex space frames, the only problem is that they are PITA to analyze in external FEA programs.

[@Thinkflite]

I cant find Structural Members.How do I find it also how do i draw a vertical line without it going all over the place? thank you :)

[@wayneh5705]

I just got a puzzle after this frame set up- The remote load option is not shown up from simulation. How to add remote load here? THX.

[@avenginobiela]

Okay, thanks a lot!!

[@raju123211]

How to merge the members with each other ????

[@joe_limon]

I sure didn't, 22 minutes was long enough. For corner treatment you have two options. When selecting the weldment members, selecting the pink nodes gives you an option to reorder the cut priority. Give two members the same number, and they will be mitered. The method I prefer however is to use "trim/extend" feature to correct my corner implementation.

[@syahair]

help me please.. i cannot weldment the spline sketches.. can u help me??

[@s4shridhar]

how to deal with complex 3 way mitre joint which are not at perfect angles to each other like 90, 180 etc

[@joe_limon]

create each member, and then do 3 separate cuts for each member. During the extrude process you can select which members to ignore.

[@muhdzulhusmi]

it is normal got lag/delay in 3d sketch mode?

[@joe_limon]

I find that patterns and large amounts of constraints get very laggy. To reduce this lag you can always split your sletch into multiple other sletches or delete relations and simply use the fix relation to define your sketch.

[@gregoirearsenault7336]

Robin McCaffrey, So I have just installed Solidworks 2016. On my previous version it was easy and simple to use my weldments profiles. I do understand how load your own profiles or any kind. Now the problem I run into is: When you right click on your tab you see your options: Assemble, Layout, Sketch, Evaluate and so on... And for some reason, and maybe I did something when I first started to use solidworks, it doesn't give me option of adding weldments tab? So I can't use it at all? Am I supposed to do something in setting to be able to use this feature? Or maybe it's my installation was done wrong? Please help help!! Thanks,

[@joe_limon]

I haven't tried 2016 yet, but have you tried lookig around the customize menu yet?

[@gregoirearsenault7336]

+Robin McCaffrey , Yes I did... I can't find it... But It's pretty similar from 2014-2015-2016... Have you already ran into this problem?

[@joe_limon]

+Grégoire Arsenault , No I haven't, lately I have been using mostly the standard toolbars though.

[@gregoirearsenault7336]

+Robin McCaffrey , Is there anyway I could send you a print screen. My options are there but I can't click on them because they are shaded in gray.

[@joe_limon]

+Grégoire Arsenault sure, joelimon (at) gmail (dot) com

[@rompedientes123123]

It's all so well explained, but I think people could learn a lot more if the RealView would be turned off, because we see the video as if it had lag, and is a bit cumbersome.

[@abhishekdalvi159]

Thanks sir

[@raju123211]

I don't know may be connectivity

[@lIDreamm]

thx kub

[@joe_limon]

I do not believe Solidworks can handle using splines for weldments. It can handle regular curved sketches. My suggestion is to make your spline a construction line, then sketch curved arc lines over the spline.

[@themechanicdrredewaan5916]

Hi, I am looking for someone to complete a drawing of a chassis. I have a few options of body i will want to use. Tham nks in advance. Redewaan

[@biohazard747]

I can help you with that

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[@raizalmohammad7444]

seems to me you are still new to solidworks...you still havent got a clue on what you are doing...The space frame chassis design is not made properly...theres no headroom for the driver ... try to get the basics right here...

[@joe_limon]

This video was a tutorial on how to use 3d sketches, use frame member features and how to quickly set up an analysis. If I were to go the whole 9 yards this would be an 8 hour long video with me pulling geometry I had already determined for things like suspension. I hope to god nobody actually makes this frame.

[@shadanshaikh3589]

Please make more videos

[@joe_limon]

I do not believe Solidworks can handle using splines for weldments. It can handle regular curved sketches. My suggestion is to make your spline a construction line, then sketch curved arc lines over the spline.