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Making an assembly from a weldment

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Making an assembly from a weldment

- Creating an assembly from weldment parts is really just about exactly the same as creating an assembly from just about any other types of parts inside of SolidWorks. Now most people assume that weldments are automatically assemblies. Really, they're not though. They're actually individual parts or what we call a multi-body part. So there's multiple entities all inside of one part. Now you can create other types of multi-body parts inside of SolidWorks, but by default, weldments automatically turns on the multi-body part assembly mode. Sorry, not actually assemblies, but it actually inside of that same part it looks like there is multiple pieces that are all assembled together, but it really is just one part with multiple bodies. Now to create assembly from multi-body part I've got a basic piece here which I've created with a couple different structural numbers. You can see here I've got a sketch outlining this shape. I've got a structural member here at the top which is about a six…

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