Overview

Weld Design allows you to model welds in assemblies. The application offers a highly productive and intuitive design environment providing different tools to fulfill your weld fabrication needs. The Weld Design User's Guide guide is intended for users who need to become quickly familiar with the Weld Design product.

Weld Design in a Nutshell

Two contexts for the Weld Design workbench are available depending on the UI active object in the Specification Tree.


  • In product (or assembly) context.
  • In representation context

Weld specifications and geometries are stored in a dedicated product in the database (weld bundles) that have Fasten PLM links allowing to browse a welded structure.

Material can be associated with weld features.

Weld Design can be used in cooperation with other products such as Generative Drafting.

Before Reading this Guide

Before reading this guide, you should be familiar with basic Version 6 concepts such as document windows, standard and view toolbars. Therefore, we recommend that you read the Infrastructure User's Guide that describes generic capabilities common to all Version 6 products. It also describes the general layout of Version 6 and the interoperability between workbenches.

You may also like to read the following complementary product guides, for which the appropriate license is required:


  • Product Structure
  • Part Design
  • Assembly Design
  • Generative Drafting

Getting the Most Out of this Guide

To get the most out of this guide, we suggest that you start reading and performing the step-by-step user tasks, which cover all product functionalities.

The Interface Description section, which describes the commands that are specific to Weld Design, and the Customizing section, which explains how to customize settings, will also certainly prove useful.