General Guidelines
There is two ways to model welds, standard triangle weld or simpler cylindrical weld.
Also, it is important that in the exported .step file, all the welds body must be named the same way. For example, “WELD”.
Triangle Welds
With triangular weld, the weld should always be a right angled triangular prism. Also, the weld leg size is always equal to the samll edge of the triangle (not the hypotenuse).
Example
Cylindrical Welds
With cylindrical weld, the weld should always be a cylinder. Also, the radius of the cylinder is equal to the weld leg size.
Example:
.CSV file welds
Here is exactly where the segment should be placed for each weld type (identified by the green dots).
For imperial system, use this model as an example…
For metric system, use this model as an example…
In column B (WeldType), “FILLET” can always be used for any joint type.
Also, in the column D (WeldSize), represent the represent the weld leg size in millimetre.
Finally, the column from D to I represent the positions (mm) of the start and end points of each weld in relation to the origin of the exported part.