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Exposing the weld symbol (in drawings) to the api would be great. It would be awesome to have some pre-programmed symbols or symbol adjustments with vba when detailing.
The weld symbols in the drawings jump around kinda spastic. If all I could do was move the leader point and symbol anchor that would make huge leaps and bounds for me.
We should be able to extract the information added on the weldment assembly programmatically. this will enable robotic welding software to integrate with the weldment assembly and avoid redefinition of the weld in the other software.
Even for simple tasks like calculating the weld length required for estimating - can be easily automated with a quick routine.
I would like to be able to edit some of the symbols especially the backing symbol to tone it down. It looks like a large brick as it stands and AWS and ASME standards show a much smaller one about half the length and 1/3 the height.
Sorry for the delay in responding to your comments - I've been on vacation. Since I do not do my weld symbols I'm not familiar with the prefix you are striving to place in your weld symbols. Could you provide an example of what your finished weld symbol looks like?
We use a weld map to specify the specific WPS to be used for each weld and capture the pertinent information about each weld.
weld map
I've noticed that IV2019 remembers the last weld symbol inserted so if you have the a and 6 on the last symbol it will put it up on the next.
Even with all the little idiosyncrasies of Inventors weld symbols I prefer it over all the other modeling software I have and use. I've driven the Solidworks guys out of their minds with trying to make insert-able/editable blocks such as the weld map ones on this page and weld symbols.
in the Annotate ribbon select Welding Symbol and place your welding symbol. You should now have the Welding symbol dialog pop-up window now showing. The very top line has options and mine is set at "Last used" as shown in the screen shot below.
I would like to have this exposed so that I can gather the size information in the fields and change them to the appropriate units when changing the overall drafting standard of a drawing due to manufacturing location changing. I'd also like to update the style to the most current version when new styles roll out.
Hello, I'd really like to have access to the tail note text field. I find it tedious to go into menus to add a bunch of "2X" or whatnot, so I have iLogic scripts to add the text to any dimensions that are selected. A colleague asked that I add weld symbols to the same script. I told him "easy, no problem", but unfortunately now I have to tell him it's utterly impossible.
Hi, is this just for weld symbols in assemblies or in drawings too? I am more interested in weld symbols on the drawings.
It is really (I do not know how to say it and not offend anyone) embarrassing not to be able to programmatically control weld symbols on the drawing. Do not know if other software has that or not, but I can just imagine if I speak to one of them and say we cannot do it, how much they would laugh. Embarrassing for me to use software that does not have that option. Especially nowadays when AI taking over everything. Just please do not say it's hard or not possible, we all know nowadays everything is possible.
I'd like to provide you with an example to illustrate why this issue is relevant. In one of my projects, which consists of approximately 30 drawings, there are approximately 300 weld symbols spread across these drawings. When it's time to pass on the documentation to the production team, I'm required to assign a unique number (such as 1, 2, 3, and so on) to each weld symbol.
This process can't be done as I create the weld symbols initially due to the frequent changes, revisions, and additional details that are often required (lost of numbering order guaranteed). This means that numbering the symbols manually becomes a time-consuming and cumbersome task, which involves clicking on each weld symbol, adding the corresponding number, clicking OK, and repeating this process 299 more times. However, if I had access to iLogic, I could accomplish this with a single For each loop...
Sub Main()
oSheet = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument.ActiveSheet
For Each WeldSymbol In oSheet.WeldingSymbols
For Each WeldSymbolDefinition In WeldSymbol.Definitions
WeldSymbolDefinition.TailNote = "test"
Next
Next
End Sub
