- Gussets can be added to just about any welded structure
or weldment and this is no exception.
Jump up here to the Weldments toolbar,
click on Gusset.
Come down here, I'm going to choose Supporting Faces.
I'm going to choose this one on the inside here
and this one over here,
and notice I get a really tiny little gusset here
in the corner within the cube.
Click on eight inches, Direction 2, eight inches again,
puts a nice little gusset in there,
you can adjust it as you want.
You can choose Material Thickness and where you want it.
Notice it's on the inside of the material here.
I can choose to be Mid plane
or on the Outside if I wanted to,
and I can also choose the Thickness.
I want to put it back to where it was,
1/4 inch looks fine to me.
The Location, I can choose how I'm locating
that Profile if I want to but this one looks just perfect,
and I can also Offset if I need to.
But right here everything looks pretty good, click on OK
Now I can pattern this, I can mirror it,
I can do a lot of things with it to move it around the part.
So I could then add a gusset up here
or up here and then pattern all those
to the other side or mirror those to the other side.
Here's another example of a small gusset.
Click on Gusset, choose this face here and that face there.
I'm going to choose three inches for this one
and let's say two inches for that one,
click on OK, there's my gusset.
Now I can use a pattern tool
under Features, Pattern.
My Direction 1, I'm going to click on this direction here
and the Body I'm going to pattern
is going to be this one right here,
make sure I'm going in the correct direction
and giving the right spacing here,
so about two...
Whoop, hold on,
back this way, 2 1/2 looks pretty good, click on OK.
So if you needed a real strong structure
you could add a bunch of gussets really easily
to this side here,
and if you're feeling really fancy
you could then use the Mirror command
and mirror them over to the other side
and save yourself a lot of work,
so that is the Gusset command
and also with some mirror patterning suggestions.
So great tools, especially if you're adding a lot
of structural members in need of a very strong structure.
Gusset is your friend.