topic Re: Stitch Groove Weld in Inventor Forum

Stitch Groove Weld

MGarthMadden — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 18:29:04 GMT

I have a weldment that there is a weld prep and I am trying to do a groove weld to fill it. However, I want that groove weld to be in stich pattern. Is there a way to do a stitch pattern for the groove weld?

The first picture is what it comes out to be doing a groove weld. The second picture is a improvised fillet weld to try and show what I want it to be.

Groove WeldImprovised Fillet Weld

Re: Stitch Groove Weld

johnsonshiue — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 19:58:19 GMT

Hi! I don't believe Groove Weld has such behavior. Groove Weld is more like "Loft", going from one arbitrary face to another arbitrary face. There is no intermittent spacing.

Many thanks!

Re: Stitch Groove Weld

3D4Play — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 08:23:07 GMT

You can just put the correct weld information in the weld symbol, which is what the welder is going to look at no matter what your 3D weldment looks like. Worst case, they will ask why you have a continuous weld shown pictorially, with a groove weld symbol called out as a stitch. Then you can say, “yeah, Inventor doesn’t let me model a groove weld with a stitch, so I put the correct symbol on an incorrect model representation.”

Re: Stitch Groove Weld

Gabriel_Watson — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 13:02:27 GMT

As @3D4Play above said, sometimes you can just add "Cosmetic Welds" which have no geometrical representation, and still get the full note imported into the drawing.

Re: Stitch Groove Weld

MGarthMadden — Fri, 05 Nov 2021 18:36:26 GMT

Thank you for the answers I am somewhat of a perfectionist sometimes so I thought that I would ask even thought I didn't think that there was a way to do it.