Users helping Users

Topics for next EMSWUG meeting:

Design Tables (parts & assemblies)

  • Prepare the part prior to inserting a design table
  • Control dimensions, suppression states, colors
  • Show advanced Excel techniques 
  • Add custom properties from a design table
  • Add a design table to a Drawing

Weldments

  • Creation of a sketch-based, Toolbox
    Structural Member weldment w/ gussets
    + make a drawing w/ cutlist
  • Briefly cover corner treatments
  • Trim/Extend members
  • Fillet weld beads
  • End caps, gussets
  • Creation of a manual, multiple-plate
    weldment with stock removal & machined
    holes, etc.
  • Creation of custom tube profile & inclusion
    into weldment above
  • Handling of 3rd-party parts (downloaded
    from McMaster-Carr) + capturing the mfg's
    p/n in cutlist properties
  • Setting up cutlist for drawing
  • Inserting Cutlist + balloons into drawing
  • "Move/Copy Bodies" to fake-up an
    exploded weldment view in a drawing