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Locating a weldment profile - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Cert Prep: SOLIDWORKS Weldments
Locating a weldment profile
- [Instructor] In this example I'm going to show you how to locate a weldment profile. Now you can see here I've got this square or rectangular section of a weldment here. And it's using the center of this shape as its path for creating the weldment profile. Now I'm going to go ahead and go ahead and change that so go over here to the feature itself. Click on Edit Feature, and you can see here we're using the center point of that sketch. So if we zoom in here on that sketch, you can see we've got a bunch of these lines we've created, which is nice. So I can come down here and click on Locate Profile. Click on that one there. And then what it's asking for or looking for now is for me to click on a new point. So if I click on this little point over here notice it automatically moves the material up and it uses that bottom corner to lie along these line here, which creates that profile. If again I wanted to change something else it's pretty easy to do. Just go back over here, click on…
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Weldment profile creation4m 3s
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Placing the weldment profile in the weldment profile library6m 5s
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Basic and advanced weldment part creation5m 51s
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Locating a weldment profile3m 19s
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Weldment corner modification2m 17s
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Profile alignment1m 35s
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Placing gaps at corners and segment intersections1m 58s
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End caps2m 2s
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Gussets1m 37s
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Weldment part modification2m 8s
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Using the Trim/Extend command5m 24s
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3D sketch creation4m 27s
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Cut list folder management in the weldment part2m 13s
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Cut list creation in the weldment drawing2m 33s
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