2015
Lynda
Gabriel Corbett
0:59
English

Jump-start your weldment design skills by learning to use SOLIDWORKS to create a steel building. This project-based course starts at the foundation: creating the planes, floor plan, and elevation sketches for a small shop building. Along the way, author Gabriel Corbett covers material selection, 3D sketching, and laying out structural members. Then together you'll dive into creating welded and bolted corners, trimming and extending structural members for the best fit, and using gussets, bolt plates, and a foundation to define the structure of the building. The project ends with designing a custom weldment profile and generating frame drawings that can be handed off to manufacturing.

Introduction
Welcome
Using the exercise files
1. Basic Weldments Design
Creating the planes
Drawing the 2D structure
3D Sketching
Loading weldment profiles
Choosing the structural members
Patterning and mirroring structural members
2. Frame Layout
Creating the roof frame
Adjusting the corners
Adding in holes
Adding in gussets
Welding the structure
3. Weldment Assembly
Assembling the roof
Creating a custom weldment profile
Mirroring and patterning assemblies
4. Frame Drawings
Assembly drawing
Part detail drawing
Conclusion
Next steps

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