Weldments and Mold Tools: structural frames with cut lists, and core and cavity splits
The Weldments tab builds welded frames: 3D sketch, structural members from 47 ISO and EN profiles (square and rectangular tube, pipe, angle, UPE channel, IPE beam), trim/extend, end caps, gussets, fillet beads, and a cut list with lengths and end angles. The Mold Tools tab has parting lines with draft analysis, shut-off surfaces, a parting surface, tooling split into core and cavity, and side cores.
Structural members sweep a profile along sketch lines, each member its own body, in groups with end miter or end butt corners, a weld gap, mirror and rotation. A 600 × 400 frame of 40 × 40 × 3 tube mitred at the corners lists 2 × 640 and 2 × 440 in the cut list, every end 45°. The cut list table copies as CSV with mass.
Tooling Split divides a block around the part into core and cavity bodies, and their volumes add back up to the block exactly. Core pulls a side core out of a block. Scale handles shrinkage.
Tested by hand in the app: a welded frame from a 3D sketch, two member groups, a trim, an end cap, a gusset and the cut list, then a mold split on a second part. The volumes match the closed forms.
Not yet: Weld Bead, Groove Bead, custom profiles, Structure System, members along arcs, splines and picking in the 3D sketch, curved parting lines, and the cut-list table on drawings. Core parity is now 103 of 239.
- Added
- 3D sketch (lines)
- Structural members with a 47-profile ISO/EN library
- Trim/Extend, End Cap, Gusset, Fillet Bead, Cut List
- Parting Lines, Shut-off Surfaces, Parting Surface, Tooling Split, Core
- npm run test:weld
- Shipped in
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