- [Voiceover] To continue detailing out this project
I want to create a drawing
for this roof section here.
So I'm gonna go and open up the file first,
then click on file, make drawing from part,
choose a basic template...
and go ahead and drag in a roof section here.
I'm gonna use the front view,
and I can also use a
projected view to show me the top
or the bottom of this
or the side if I wanted to.
As soon as I have that,
I'm gonna bring in what's called a weldment cut list.
Now click on insert,
tables,
weldment cut list.
I'm gonna choose one of these views,
which can be that one there.
Use the basic one then click on OK,
and drop it in.
Now you're saying, wait
there's nothing in it. What's going on here?
Well we've missed one very important step,
so we have to go back to this part.
So click on this part,
open the part,
and come up here to our cut list.
Now notice our cut list...
is,
all the parts are here,
but what I need to do is right click on it first
and say, update.
As soon as I do that, notice it adds
all these little cut list items here.
Click on save.
Click on,
back to the assembly here or the drawing.
And then now, back on my drawing I've got
each one of these pieces.
The length is being cut too
and so on.
And this, I can obviously go in
and detail this out quite a bit further.
Give some more detailed descriptions.
And the other neat thing you can do here is
go back to that part,
and each individual one of these items here.
I can then
right click on it, and I can say
isolate,
or if I click on the part itself
I can go and say insert into new part.
If I take this part then,
I put that new part into...
its own piece,
then what I can do there is save it out
as its own structural member,
so click on save.
And then I can create a drawing...
from that part individually,
and further detail that out with any type of
dimensions we need, materials, finishes,
you name it.
I can bring individual parts from that multi-body part
of which is a weldment,
individual parts that are all related.
So if I change the weldment,
all these parts as well
will automatically update.
It's a very very powerful feature, and you can do that
for every one of the parts inside of that,
this assembly here.
So I can click on any one of these items here,
right click on it,
and insert into new body if you need to.
Some of things are just gonna be cut lengths,
maybe with an angle at the end
and you can just detail out those in your cut list,
but if there're more detailed parts with 'specially holes
that need to be welded,
or special machining, or cutting
that need to be added to the part,
you might definitely take the time to
save it as its own part,
and then they could drawn in specifically for that part
going to the assembly.
Going back to my sheet here,
I can also add in if I had other parts
that I added in to an assembly here
or to the weldment.
I can then...
add different rows to my table here
to denote different angles or cutting,
materials, and so on.
So, very very powerful.
Great way to finalize your weldment
and make sure that you've got all the correct
pieces of material, as well as adding dimensions.
So don't forget, you can come in here and add
your standard dimensions just defining
the size of the structure, so,
I'm not gonna go ahead and all of the in, but,
just as easily can go and add these in,
you can even go over here, add it, new drawing views.
Get rid of
any type of sheet format,
and even change the size of scale of your drawing.
Get rid of this here, let's just go ahead and say it's
48 by 48.
And click OK.
That's gonna give me a
sheet of paper that's basically four feet by four feet.
I could then print
a scale model...
on that sheet of paper to really see how it looks.
And this is really handy if we're getting a good view
of what you're working on so,
there's a lot of great tools inside of SolidWorks
for working with larger structures,
and hopefully some of these tools and techniques
will help you in your next structure
or weldment you're gonna be working on.