Chapter 36Creating Weldments and Weldment Drawings

Weldments are specialized parts that are similar in some ways to sheet metal parts. They are identified as a special kind of part by a Weldment feature in the FeatureManager, and you use a special set of tools to create and edit them. The specialized part enables specialized functionality such as cut lists, special body trimming functions, and gap creation between bodies.

Weldments in SolidWorks are built on structural profiles along sketch entities in a multibody part environment. ...

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