Posts Tagged ‘weldments’

Lumber (Wood) Weldment Profiles

Tuesday, January 11th, 2011

Looking to design your new deck during your lunch break at work?  There’s no better way to do it than in a SolidWorks weldment part file.  The one critical thing you’ll need is a library of all the stock lumber profiles, so here it is:

http://www.3dvision.com/Support/docs/Lumber_Profiles.zip

http://www.3dvision.com/Support/docs/Lumber_Profiles_2010.zip (recently added due to popular demand)

Just download the ZIP file listed above and extract it into the directory you’ve specified for your weldment profiles (Tools > Options > System Options > File Locations > Weldment Profiles).

There’s some additional information stored in a property called ‘StockSize’.  To take advantage of it, add a column to your cut list that’s linked to this new property.  Make sure to remember to save the updated lumber cut list template for future use.

Jordan Tadic
Application Engineer, CSWE
3DVision Technologies
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Keeping the welders happy.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

Welders. They’re a finicky bunch. Some want to total length of the stock pieces, others only want a cut list. How can you keep both sides of the weld shop happy?

SolidWorks Enterprise PDM 2010 can get you both automatically! You don’t even have to raise a mouse-button-clicking-finger.
cutlist

When you are in the “Bill of Materials” tab of a weldment, you can have two types of weldment BOMs available to you. A weldment BOM and a weldment cut list. A weldment BOM lists the components and total component length for the weldment part. A weldment cut list contains the cut lengths and quantities for each component.

Isn’t it great when you can make people happy when the software does all of the work? Now the Montagues and Capulets can be together at last.

Jeff Sweeney

Jeff Sweeney
Engineering Data Specialist
3DVision Technologies

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