The Weld Worksheet contains the following parameters and controls:
- Weld Wildcard
This field is used to import the weld bodies present in your assembly by name. The wildcard string is compared against the names of the bodies in the assembly and matches are imported to the worksheet. The wildcard string can be a substring of the names of the weld bodies. For example, using
WELDas wildcard string will match the bodies namedWELD_1andWELD_2. Clicking the button populates the worksheet with the matching bodies.- Select Sequence Method
Three options are available to select the sequence in which the operations on the chosen weld bodies are to be performed:
: the sequence is the order in which the bodies appear in the tree under the Geometry object.
: the sequence is determined relative to a coordinate system. When selecting this option, two additional fields are exposed to allow you to select a coordinate system and to select the type of arrangement with respect to the chosen coordinate system. The options for the latter are , in which case the sequence is by absolute distance of the weld bodies from the given coordinate system, and , , or , in which case weld bodies are arranged in order of distance in the chosen coordinate system direction, from lowest to highest.
: the sequence and all other values for the worksheet can be directly imported from a .csv file. The weld names in the .csv file are matched against the welds in the tree and matches are populated in the worksheet.
- Generate Sequence
Once the sequence method is chosen, clicking the button populates the Welding Order fields for the respective welds.
- Export Sequence
Clicking this button exports the worksheet in .csv format.
Each worksheet row has two context menu options:
- Flip Weld
This can be used to flip the direction of welding for the chosen bodies.
- Zoom To selection
This can be used to zoom to the weld bodies that were chosen in the worksheet.