Guidelines and options for adding welding symbols, caterpillars, and end fills.
You can use several types of weld annotations and symbols in a drawing. Default appearance of weld annotations is determined by the weld symbol style and can be edited in Style and Standard Editor. |
When you create drawing views of weldment assemblies, you can use the welding symbol from the model and automatically generate caterpillar annotations for solid body fillet welds.
When you create drawing views of weldments, you can use the welding symbol from the model and automatically generate caterpillar annotations for solid body fillet welds.
You can also manually add 2D welding symbols, caterpillars, and end fills to drawing views of any model.
Weldments are a special type of assembly model that contains four states: preparations, welds, machining, and modeling. In a drawing, you can add views for any of the assembly states:
Weldments are a special type of model that contains four states: preparations, welds, machining, and modeling. In a drawing, you can add views for any of the states:
You can use the model welding symbols in the drawing. For solid body fillet welds, you can also use the model information to generate the caterpillars and end fills automatically.
Model weld annotations and symbols used in a drawing view are associated with the model and can update when the model changes. If you create a manual annotation or welding symbol in the drawing, and the model contains a welding symbol or annotation, the drawing welding symbol or annotation is a copy and does not update.
To create welding symbols and annotations that update when the model welding symbol and annotations change, right-click a drawing view and click Get Model Annotations, and then select Get Welding Symbols. Repeat and select Get Weld Annotations.
You can manually add welding symbols, caterpillars, and end fills to any edge in a drawing view.
To create welding symbols and annotations that update when the model welding symbol and annotations change, right-click a drawing view and click Get Model Annotations, and then select Get Welding Symbols. Repeat and select Get Weld Annotations.