Spot Weld Tool Guides and Options

Spot Weld Tool Guides

The following tool guides help step you through the process. Use the Tab key to cycle through them. As soon as the tool guide switches, the cursor may change to reflect the active guide.

Select Base Faces	Use the Select Base Faces tool guide to select the face or faces on which the weld points will be defined. You should select a single face or a chain of tangent faces.
Select Guiding Edges	Use the Select Guiding Edges tool guide to define the edge along which the weld points will be defined.
Select Mating Faces	Use the Select Mating Faces tool guide to change the mating face from the face that is automatically detected. You can select more than one face. Clicking on a mating face removes all previously selected faces and holding Ctrl adds a face.
Complete	The Complete tool guide completes the spot weld definition.

Spot Weld Tool Options

The following options are available:

Start offset	The distance of weld points from the beginning of the guiding edge.
Edge offset	The distance of weld points from the guiding edge.
End offset	The distance of weld points from the end of the guiding edge.
Number of points	The number of weld points to define for each edge chain.
Increment	The distance between weld points. You can set either the number of points or the increment. The last value you enter will be used. For example, if you change the number of points, the increment will automatically update. If you then change the increment, the number of points will change.
Search range	The distance to search for mating faces from the guiding edge.