Defining Fillet Welds

The Assign Welds tool enables you to define properties for welds on a model. When you select geometry, Discovery detects fillet welds on that geometry. You can then select an existing fillet weld profile, or define a new one.

To define a new fillet weld profile:

  1. Click Select generation locations then select the geometry on which you want to define welds. You can select edges or edge loops, or bodies and faces. Discovery automatically detects all welds on that geometry based on the Detection distance.
    Note: If the body and the face only overlap partially, the system can find only the edges that are in contact.

    You can also click Select excluded locations to select locations from which welds are excluded.

  2. For Size, enter the size of the weld.
  3. Select Intermittent welds if you want discontinuous welding. You can then define characteristics for your intermittent weld:
    1. For Length, enter the length of each weld in the intermittent weld.
    2. To specify a minimum distance between the welds, select Minimum pitch and enter the minimum distance between the center of one weld and the next. This value must be greater than the Length.
      If minimum pitch isn’t defined, the minimum distance defaults to 1.5 x weld length.
    3. To limit the number of welds, select Limit number and enter the maximum number of welds.

    Once the Length is defined, information about the intermittent weld(s) is displayed in the Pitch and Number fields.

    For more information on how Discovery uses minimum pitch and limit number values to automatically adjust intermittent welds to geometry modifications, see Fillet Welds.

  4. To modify the default weld detection distance around selected geometry, expand the settings. Then, for Detection distance, enter Min and Max distance values.
  5. Click Save to local library to save the weld definition to a local library for re-use.
    If the weld definition is already saved, and you want to remove it, select Remove from local library.
  6. When you are finished, click Accept.
Once a weld profile has been created, you can modify the name of the Weld profile by entering a new name in the Name field. You can then apply this weld profile to other welds.