About Spot Welds
A spot weld is a joint (or weld) between two overlapping pieces of material. Typically, spot welds are used for sheet metal.
To create spot welds, you reference datum points located on a surface of solid geometry. You can select existing datum points or create datum points during weld creation.
You cannot use the following datum points for creating a spot weld:
• Sketched datum points
• Datum points created on a vertex or edge of solid geometry
To create multiple spot welds, there are two methods:
• Select multiple locations (existing datum points) for spot welds and create one weld in multiple locations.
• Create a single spot weld and use pitch functionality to create additional welds based on the first weld.
Pitch functionality creates welds along one dimension vector. To create spot welds along a second dimension, use a datum point pattern and reference the datum points.
In the Model Tree, light spot welds are represented by
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