- So now we have most of our structure defined.
We have the sketches and we have the planes.
We're ready to start creating some structural
members inside of the Weldments package.
To get started, let's go over to Weldments here.
We're gonna go ahead and start Weldment
and then go ahead and choose a structural member.
I'm gonna choose a standard,
here I'm gonna choose Ansi inch.
Come down here to type.
Notice I have quite a few different sections
of material, which is great.
I'm gonna choose this S section to start with
and I'm gonna click on this and I'm gonna say,
"Oh my god, there's only three sizes
of material I can choose in a
structural member or an i beam."
We know there's a lot more sizes
out there in the world than those.
What SolidWorks has done is they've
just given you a very, very small subset
of what's available, just to kind of get you started
inside of the Weldments package.
You can define your own structural members if you want.
You can define the shape and it's fairly easy to do that,
but you don't necessarily know the size of every
structural member out there.
So, you're gonna have to do a lot of research.
Save yourself the time.
Let's go ahead and download these from SolidWorks.
Let's get out of the structural member here.
Let's go over here to our library.
Click on Library and notice everybody should have
what's called a SolidWork's content
at the very bottom of their library.
Expand that out and notice we got
Blocks, CircuitWorks, Routing, and the Weldments
at the bottom here.
Under Weldments, I can download these
packages of all these Weldment profiles
and save them to my computer.
Depending on where you are in the world,
you can download corresponding one you need.
I'm already gonna be using this Ansi inch,
but you could define all these if you want to
and just define and save them out to wherever you'd like.
Go ahead and click on Ansi inch.
Hold down ctrl and it's gonna
open and save it to your desktop somewhere or another.
Let's go ahead and click on ctrl
and it's gonna ask you where you wanna save it.
I would generally save to something to
a shared folder on my system that everybody
can use the same things.
In this case here, I'm just gonna put it on
Exercise Files, Weldment Profiles, and Ansi inch.
I've already done this so I'm just gonna
go ahead and exit out of this or cancel it,
but I wanna point out that you can download this.
It's a fairly good sized file,
so it's gonna take a little while to download.
But once you do, save it to Weldments Profiles
and then we're gonna expand it out
and then add it to our library.
I'm gonna cancel here because I've already downloaded it.
Jump over here to my Exercise Files
and under Weldment Profiles, I have Ansi inch.
Notice here the download is 31 MB.
You can then expand that out.
I right-click here and I say extract here.
Depending on what type of extraction tool
you have on your computer, you just expand it out,
save it out to your file system,
and then if you open that up, you notice they've got
all these different sections here.
Most of the time when you do that through SolidWorks,
it's gonna automatically add a path
to wherever you saved this to.
If for some reason that does not work,
let's go ahead and back over here to SolidWorks.
Let's go up under Options.
Make sure we're going to File Locations.
Then, under File Locations, let's go ahead and look for
Weldment Profiles which are down here.
Notice this is just a default folder
that is loaded with SolidWorks.
I wanna add a new path.
So, click on add.
I'm gonna go to Weldment Profiles, Ansi inch.
I wanna make sure that I'm actually
just choosing Weldment Profiles.
Click on OK and that's what's gonna be my profile.
So, I'm gonna get rid of the old one
or just delete it. Click OK. Add the path.
Say yes to any type of little dialog boxes that pop up.
Now, let's go ahead and try to use that
structural member one more time.
So, click on Structural Member.
I'm gonna choose Ansi inch.
Now look at all the available sizes of material
that are pre-loaded inside of SolidWorks.
I'm gonna go down here to an S section which is an i beam.
Choose the size and notice I've got
a whole bunch to choose from.
Hopefully you can find something in there
that's gonna work out for the design.
For our section here, we're gonna
be choosing a 12 inch i beam.
So, it's gonna be 12 at 35 pounds per foot.
That's the size we're gonna use.
In the next movie we're gonna jump into
creating the groups and adding the Weldment Profiles.