- The final step in building this building is going to be
to pattern this weldment of the roof assembly
across the top of the structure here.
I'm calling it assembly but it's really not,
it's really just a single part which is a multi-body part
in a weldment.
And you can see it's part here 3.3-2.
That makes it very easy to work with.
So click on that part here, come up to assembly,
click on "linear", and click on "patterns"
and I want to choose my direction
as this direction here along the I-beam.
And as far my components to pattern I want this one here
and as far as how many I want let's try here, six feet.
Not six inches but six feet.
See what happens.
Alright that's a little bit bigger than what we need,
so let's try five feet.
Closer, four feet.
And what I'm looking for here is to have a little bit
of an overlap.
And you can see here these are overlapping.
Now it probably wouldn't be exactly like this
when you actually build the building because you have
an overlapping seam, one would be slightly higher
than the other one, but that's okay.
We're really just trying to define how this
is being laid out, so we're on a four foot spacing
and I can just continue in adding structures all the way
across the building.
As soon as you're done, click on "ok."
Now you might need to go back and add in one more frame
at the very end if you needed to, or make
a couple different configurations, but there it is
your basic structure of a welded building, or welded
or bolted structure all made out of weldment.
Pretty straight-forward and simple to do.
You can then take each one of these things and make drawings
for it, you could make welding details, assembly details,
anything you need, but that's your basic thing for creating
assembly structure in a building.
And the way we created it using a lot of patterning
and mirroring and base sketches,
if I went back to my original sketch I could change
the size of the building just by changing
a few very simple dimensions,
so very, very powerful way to create a structure
very quickly and modification of this structure again
is extremely easy.
That's weldments.
That is a welded steel building using SOLIDWORKS weldments.