- Now that we've already created
the base weldment as well as the frame weldment,
let's go ahead and assemble them together
and create this building.
First things first,
let's go ahead and hide all these sketches
cause we really don't need them.
So, I'll click on View. Go to Sketches,
and just turn those off.
Same thing on these planes.
I don't really need to see these right now,
so let's go into the planes and turn those off.
But, you know what I'm missing
is the floor.
Where's that piece of concrete that we wanted to create?
So, let's go ahead back and create that real quick,
so notice I have a sketch for the bottom here
as well as this one here
which was the sketch file it should be for the concrete.
So, let's go ahead and create a feature there,
and I want to make it a six inch thick piece of concrete
at the bottom, and I want to make sure
it's going into the ground and not into my structure.
And click on OK.
And that's just going to give us something
we can build our building on top of.
Alright, looks a little bit better.
Click OK. Save that out.
Now, I want to create an assembly from this part.
Notice this is still one part.
It's a multi-body part. It's a weldment.
There's only one piece here.
So, now we need to go up and click on
Make Assembly from Part.
Click on assembly. Click on OK.
And go ahead and just bring that one right in.
Now again, I'm going to go on View: Hide Sketches,
and then I want to click on...
I already have this one open 3.1-2.
If you don't just go click on File: Open and open it up.
There it is. The same one we left off with.
Tile horizonally.
Now I want to drag this assembly here
down into my new assembly.
So, I can either click here
or I can go over here and click it from the tree
and just drag that one in.
Soon as I do, expand that out so I can see it.
And here it is. I can just drag it over.
I also have these little weld call-outs.
Let's hide those.
So, All Annotations: Go ahead and hide that
so you don't see it.
Just makes it a little bit cleaner when
you start assembling things together
to make sure we know exactly where things are.
Okay, first things first that I want to do
is I want to save my assembly.
So, go to File: Save As, Rebuild it,
and I'm going to save in Chapter 3 as 3.1.
Save. And there it is.
Ok, now click on Mate.
I want to make sure that I'm going
to be using the top of this structure here,
so the top of that beam there should be attached
to the bottom of this piece here.
We knew that already,
but just in case, it's the best way
when you're defining mates, is to say them out loud.
What's going to touch what?
What's going to connect with what other piece?
If you say it out-loud, sometimes it makes it really obvious
if you're looking for ideas on how to mate things together.
The other thing I can do here is
I can do mates like the corner here to the corner here,
but that's really not a good mate.
That's a bad mate.
It'll work, but a better way to do something like that
because where everything's symmetrical,
is choose some of the planes.
Now, I have a right plane here,
and then I have this part here
that has a right plane as well.
So, why don't we choose both of those,
and mate those together.
So, I held down CTRL,
I selected both of those at the same time,
and click on OK.
Now, if the design automatically got bigger,
it'll automatically still be on the center point
which is great.
So, using plane to plane mates
is a very very powerful thing you can do,
and it really makes your designs very robust.
Now I can slide this in here.
You can see that everything does line up pretty well,
and I think I want to bring this material here
and I want to mate it right to the edge of this I beam.
So, there is my very first strut
assembled together looking pretty good.
Now, we want to take that same roof frame here,
and we want to pattern all the way down
to the end of the building.
I might also want to add in something like
a piece of corrugated steel for the roofing structure.
I can go back through these assemblies and add more parts
if I wanted to.
So, that's the next thing we're going to look at
was we're going to be adding in
a piece of corrugated steel for some roof material
and creating our own custom profile.