{"id":3969,"date":"2016-02-25T09:28:45","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T09:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3969"},"modified":"2016-02-25T09:31:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T09:31:26","slug":"solidworks-tech-tip-intro-to-weldments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/02\/solidworks-tech-tip-intro-to-weldments\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Intro to Weldments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How do you create weldments? Are you aware that SOLIDWORKS has an entire tool set dedicated to weldment frames? You use 2D and 3D sketches to define the basic framework. Then you create structural members containing groups of sketch segments. You can also add items such as gussets and end caps using tools on the Weldments toolbar. Here\u2019s my challenge to you \u2013 I want you to pick one of the \u2018advanced specialist\u2019 tool sets in SOLIDWORKS: Sheet Metal, Weldments, Surfacing, Mold Tools, or Drawing Tools, and I want to you begin a new journey. Think outside of your daily routines, and be the best SOLIDWORKS user you can be!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/9ASu98GbAhA?rel=0\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about SOLIDWORKS Weldments, head over to <a href=\"http:\/\/my.solidworks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MySolidWorks<\/a> and check out the <a href=\"http:\/\/my.solidworks.com\/mylearning\/lessons\/626\/introduction-to-weldments\" target=\"_blank\">Introduction to Weldments<\/a>\u00a0training module.\u00a0Good luck! As always, thanks for reading and happy learning!<\/p>\n<p>Originally posted in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/tech\/2015\/11\/solidworks-tech-tip-intro-to-weldments.html\" target=\"_blank\">SOLIDWORKS Tech Blog<\/a> by Rachel Diane York.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you create weldments? Are you aware that SOLIDWORKS has an entire tool set dedicated to weldment frames? You use 2D and 3D sketches to define the basic framework.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[37,25,127],"class_list":["post-3969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","tag-hints-tips","tag-solidworks-2","tag-weldments"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3969"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4111,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3969\/revisions\/4111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}