Sheetmetal and Weldments in SolidWorks

[@rafael_testai]

Small world, Brad. I found your video by looking for the phrase "how to do weldments in SolidWorks."

[@trexinvert]

Please clarify: 1.) You start with a solid body, but at 2:40 it shows 2 surface bodies and cut list in the tree. Trick? 2.) If you actually started with a basic solid body, could you get to weldment and sheet metal combo? I am trying to replicate on SW2010.

[@SouthTTM]

Hi, thanks for your question. The design starts with a single solid body, then using Convert to Sheetmetal, certain faces are selected to create sheetmetal BODIES. At 2:40, the model contains 4 sheetmetal bodies (they are solids, not surfaces). The major enhancement that is being shown here is that in the Part environment, you can have a mix of body types--general feature based solid bodies (e.g., a machine design part), sheetmetal bodies, weldment bodies, and surface-only bodies (not shown in this video). In other words, a single part file could be a combination of weldments, sheetmetal, other solid bodies (machine parts, plates, etc) and optionally, surfaces. For more information look for tutorials on Multi-body modeling techniques.

[@trexinvert]

Thanks for the info I didn't know SW could take a solid and "hollow it out" and "origami" it. Good to know.

[@Ichibat]

The question here is where to get ur tutorial