Weldment Cut List - listing angle cuts

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by cadcoke3, Jun 14, 2005.

  1. cadcoke3

    cadcoke3 Guest

    I created a simple weldment with various angles, and dimensioned it
    to check what the cut list was doing with the values. I was hoping the
    cut list would contain all the necessary dimensions (rather than having
    to manually dimension each piece). However, while it correctly shows
    the overall length of the piece, the challenges are determining which
    edge is angle1, angle2 and the direction of the cut.

    This weldment's cut list gives the cuts in order starting at one end.
    But if I had not dimensioned the angles, I would not be able to
    determine which end was the starting point. If I could determine this,
    then Angle1&2 follow that sequence. Although, it still doesn't seem to
    be sufficient info to feed a CNC cut-off saw.

    I imagine this gets MUCH more difficult if the weldment is based off
    of a 3-d sketch and it is not obvious which is the start and end of a
    single line.

    Another issue is the automatic sequence of the bubbles. They seem to
    follow the sequence that the lines were created. I would certainly
    prefer that they were arranged around the view in the same order as the
    cut list.

    Any ideas on how to approach these issues?
     
    cadcoke3, Jun 14, 2005
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  2. cadcoke3

    Zander Guest

    Weldments have built in the capability to disply 'angle1' and angle2'
    information for each cut list item, just add columns to the weldment
    cut list and choose custom property: angle1 and then angle2 for each
    column. Let me know if you need more info.

    Zander
     
    Zander, Jun 14, 2005
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