Making Welds/fillet in corner.

[Anonymous]

Hello people, this is my second post that I place on this forum.

I want to have a weld/positive fillet in the corner of my design. 

But when I try to do this fillet it only makes a fillet towards the inside of my design and not towards the outside. Can someone help me to make a fillet/welding in the corner? And if it is possible, how can I color the weld black so on the final drawing you can easily the difference?

Thanks in advance!  

[jeff_strater · Accepted solution]

The basic idea is to use a Sweep to do this.  The steps are:

1. create a workplane on path
2. sketch on the plane
3. draw a circle and a couple of lines
4. sweep this along the path you want the weld bead to go

I did not clean up the ends, but there are ways to do that.

Screencast:

Jeff

[dieselguy65]

that looks nice when done.

i have a year long project finishing up, and creating weld beads is one of the finishing touches on it

it will pass approval without them, but the model looks very out of place without them.

i have seen this request before, but no implementaion of it easily

it would be nice, to select a joint like the line where the parts meet, choose "weld" froma  menu, then select the size of the bead.

the method you show will work, but on a job with thousands of feet of weld, none of which is over 12 inches each it would be seriously time consuming

[SaeedHamza]

@jeff_strater

The way you did it is nice, but it will be great if you use the pipe command instead, saves a lot of work

Regards

[jeff_strater]

Ah, yes, the Pipe command.  good point.  That is much easier.  Using sweep gives you a bit more flexibility (you can define a spline profile, for instance), but Pipe is a heck of a lot less work.

Jeff

[Anonymous]

Is there any way anyone from Autodesk would consider making an add on for weld control.  Can it be put into a something that you could just enter leg length and then click the joint.  This would help for very large weldments that I have to create.  Also this could then be tied into the drawing.  The system could then read out call.also the other item with welding that would be nice is to have weld symbols as notations.  I have recently drawn the symbols that i need into the drawing. 

[Anonymous]

Would be great if there was a way to make the weld textured to look like a series of beads overlapping each other!

[TheCADWhisperer]

@Anonymous 

It would be computationally expensive to model the rippled bead.

Place a cosmetic texture on your "bead".

[j_a_c_E_007]

Love that texture to represent the weld. Where did you find that?