- In the last set of movies we created an assembly,
Now we want to take one of the weldment parts
out of that assembly and add
my own custom profile to that weldment
and continue adding it to the assembly.
So let's go ahead and open this frame here up.
So its 3.2-2.
Click on Open, Part.
And I want to add a new roof section to this piece here.
So let's go ahead and create our own section.
And I've started off with a sketch of a new part.
So I'm going to click on File, Open.
I'm going to choose, 3.2-3.
Go ahead and open that one up.
And here's my shape that I want to be using.
So I want to go and save this
as it's own weldment library feature.
So if I choose this sketch itself,
I can click on File, Save as.
And I'm going to choose a library feature part.
Notice by default it takes us to the design library.
But notice we changed that location before.
So we put it on the Desktop.
Put it under our ExerciseFiles,
inside of WeldmentProfiles.
Now here's where things get a little more tricky.
Now we're in WeldmentProfiles folder,
but we have to have two nested folders,
inside of the WeldmentsProfile folder,
for this whole thing to work.
So I've created a folder called CUSTOM
and inside of CUSTOM, I've created a folder called ROOF.
Now the names don't matter as long as it's two folders.
So WedlmentProfiles, some folder,
followed by some other folder,
and then you're going to save out your part here.
So notice it's a library feature part.
It's going to be called 3.2-3.
And I'm going to go ahead and click on Save.
Notice as soon as I do that,
my sketch now shows up with a little L on it.
That means it's a library feature part.
And notice up here, it shows us a little
books in front of the name,
which means it's a library part as well.
So now I have that, I can just click on Save,
and I can exit out.
Now here is my part that I want to
add that little roof section to.
So first things first is,
I want to create a sketch on the front here.
So I'm going to click on this front face here.
And I'm going to create a sketch.
I'm just going to convert that entity.
So I'm going to save this line
right there at the front of this thing.
And this line over here,
I make invert, OK.
Exit out of the sketch.
And those are the lines I'm going to use to define
where my weldment profiles are going to go.
So go up here to Weldments.
Go to Structural Member.
Instead of ansi inch
I want to come down to my new CUSTOM folder.
Notice that is that first folder.
Come down to Type.
Now notice I have the ROOF,
So if you didn't have that folder,
this wouldn't show up, you couldn't find your profile.
Come down here, choose my profile.
And now I'm going to choose my path that I just defined.
I just laid this line here.
As soon as I do, it lays that profile
right there on that line.
Now it's not at the right angle
so let's go on and adjust that.
So let's change that to 90 degrees.
And see how that looks.
Zoom in here, it looks pretty good.
Great, that's what we're looking for.
And then while we're here,
might as well just go ahead and extend it down
the other side as well.
Hold on, not that line here
but we want to be this line segment here.
Going down the other way.
Notice it mires at the top for us,
So we're looking pretty good here.
Click on OK,
and just that easily,
we created our own custom profile
and added it to our weldment structure here.
So now when I pattern this back into my assembly,
it's automatically going to have roof sections included.
Go ahead and click on Save.
And now I'm ready to go back to my assembly
and continue on with the patterning and mirroring.