Hi Tero,
There are 4 different welding stages to select from when creating a
drawing. Assembly, Preparation, Welds, and Machining. Each stage depends
on the one before it. If you want to see the Machining stage, you will get
the Preparations and Welds. This is because that machining feature may
affect the preparation or weld bead since the machining process is usually
done after these two steps. If you did not want to see the Preparations or
Welds in your drawing, you could go back to the assembly and suppress those
features. However, you need to make sure that machining features are not
dependent on the features you wish to suppress. For instance, if you create
a fillet preparation, then use the edge of the fillet to dimension your
machining feature, the machining feature would also end up getting
suppressed.
Thank you,
Tanya Garner
Inventor QA
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Greetings,
Just about to take the first plunge in the pool of IV10 welding environment.
My question is: How do you make drawings for your different welding stages?
When making my acquaintace with welding environment, I have encountered
following scenarios:
I would like to make a drawing of an individual part from assembly, with
preparations visible. This can be done by choosing preparations-state of a
weldment assembly, followed by choosing a part from a pull down-menu.
However, parts list still refers to whole assembly whereas I need only that
one part. No worries, I'll just hide those I don't need.
Machining-stage produces a drawing where all previous weldment stages are
visible as well, including preparations and weldings. Drawing used for
machining the welded structure shows a lot of things that doesn't need to be
there, such as grooves. Empty grooves even, if I didn't bother to define the
actual weld beads there. I suppose this is as designed, but looking the
assembly with the machinist's eyes who would only see filled grooves, I
would like the ability to choose if I want those stages to show or not.
Again, parts list shows every part of an assembly. Guy who does the
machining requires only the assembly level information.
I imagine that deriving the welded assembly would solve some of the issues,
but I would like to hear if those of you who routinely use welding
environment have figured out some good methods and would be kind enough to
share.
regards,
Tero