Creating Weldment Mitered Corners for Three Members [VIDEO]

Article by Scott Durksen, CSWE updated January 23, 2015

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When you have three structural members meeting at a corner, by default it will only miter two of the members as these are in the same group.  The third will need to be in a separate Group and will meet up with the others as an End Butt.

Default Weldment Corner

Default Weldment Corner

However you can edit the Structural Member feature, click on the node in the corner and change the Trim Order to 2.

Trim Order

Trim Order

This changes the corner to miter all three members.

Mitered Weldment Corner

Weldment Mitered Corners

Here is a quick video demonstrating this Trim Order option:

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Scott Durksen, CSWE

Scott is a SOLIDWORKS Elite Applications Engineer and is based in our Dartmouth, Nova Scotia office.