About Working with Welding Features
Use these techniques to enhance your overall design process.
• Duplicate welds—Best practices exist to duplicate each weld type.
◦ For fillet, groove, and butt welds, use multiple reference sets and create several welds within one weld feature.
◦ For spot welds, use multi point or pitch welding functionality.
◦ For plug and slot welds, use the Follow Pattern option.
• Use the Pattern tool to pattern welds in your design.
◦ Dimension, direction, axis, and fill patterning can be used for spot welds.
◦ Reference patterns can be used for all weld types.
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You can pattern welds, but you cannot pattern edge preparations or weld notches.
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• Edit the dimensions and definition of welding features—You can edit the definition of welding features and edit the dimensions of welding features. You can also change the number of welds in a pattern.
• Create design variations—To vary your welding design, you can suppress, resume, and reorder welding features. Suppressing some welding features can also reduce the regeneration and graphic load times for your design. If you rearrange the sequence of regular Creo features you might need to reorder the corresponding welding features.
• Reinforce welds—To reinforce your welds or to create both-sides welds within your design, you can combine weld features.
• Quickly change geometry types—To change the geometry type that represents welds and edge preparations for manufacturing or design purposes, you can convert the geometry types in your welding design.
• When the Welding tool cannot create a weld over a complex path, you can first create a simplified version of the weld, and then use Edit Weld Geometry to refine the simplified version.