HELP-Best Method for Tubular Frame?

A dune buggy is my next project.

What is the best way for SW to handle the weld joints?

Example-Do I make the sweeps for the roll-cage with perpinducular ends,
then use intersecting surfaces from the frame as the cutting tool?

Or-Do I just prepare the ends(virtual fish-mouth cut with a tube mill)
and assemble the roll cage and frame using mating surfaces?

WV

 

I would use the weldment functionality

 

Keith is dead on, weldments look great when a VAR is selling their
product to management, but its more trouble than its worth in the real
world with those that have actual technical skills.

I find its best to use assembly feature cuts to add gaps afterwards,
that way you can do a rough cosmos express analysis beforehand. I
don't have assemblies much larger than a dune buggy, so manually
generating the cut list is still better than fighting with weldments.

 

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