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:
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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.
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For Size, enter the size of the weld.
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Select Intermittent welds if you want discontinuous welding. You
can then define characteristics for your intermittent weld:
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For Length, enter the length of each weld in the
intermittent weld.
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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.
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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.
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To modify the default weld detection distance around selected geometry, expand the
settings. Then, for Detection distance, enter
Min and Max distance values.
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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.
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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.