So, after a short break I headed over to the meeting room Toucan 1 for the Weldments focus group meeting, hosted by Jay Patterson, SolidWorks Product Specialist for DS SolidWorks. Once again, this was an extremely small group, but luckily graced with the presence of Randy Ooms, from Granco Clark, who really knows what he’s talking about when it comes to SolidWorks and Weldments. Randy is also on...

As I had mentioned in my previous post, by the time I was finished with this little piece of fence, I had already collected twenty five bodies that appeared listed under “cut list” in the Feature Manager. How can this cut list be used as a mean to convey information about the model? Well, first of all, it needs to be updated, which means that all the members in the weldment that are similar wi...

The house I grew up in was a Mexican colonial style, with beautiful wrought iron fences and gates surrounding the yards. There were also wrought iron details on stairs, windows and doors.  Here in my neighborhood I’ve found only houses with backyard fences made out of wood, and no fence in the front yard. They look nice, but at times I kind of miss the elegance of the wrought iron fences of my ...

Ever since Kenneth mentioned the “missing part” about the vacuum chamber, I’ve received a few emails from people requesting the video, so, by popular demand, here it is. In this video, Kenneth is showing us a few very interesting things he did with weldments, including, of course, the vacuum chamber and the use of 3D sketches in weldments too.  Hope you find it useful! ...

Just as I promised before, here is the video of Kenneth Barrentine’s presentation on weldments, from the last Tri-Valley SWUG meeting. I hope you find it useful. I haven’t ventured into weldments myself. So far, I’ve only used the weldment symbols in drawings, but I can’t deny they sound really interesting. ...