Place Weld at Thread-o-let to Pipe

[sheetmetalman]

Is there a way to get a weld to display or place at a thread-o-let connection to the main pipe?

Our shop has a QA/QC procedure that we are trying to follow.

Thanks

[Darren Young]

I'm not sure if a way naively. Might be able to build something automated in CAD. Revit might be harder.

This would be VERY handy for weld quantification and shop scheduling.

[bobcat09]

I've set this up using an ancillary on the item with an ancillary export. Not sure of a way to place a physical weld joint, there's only one connector on the TOL and WOL.

[Darren Young]

For AutoCAD, you'd have to wrap some automation (Lisp / COD) to insert the proper weld at the right location. Wouldn't be too hard. It wouldn't be connected, just happen to be sitting there.

I think the ancillaries tied to the connector might help. Not sure how easily I'll be able to access that from Stratus. But a CAD/EST/CAM report most likely.

[bobcat09]

For AutoCAD, you'd have to wrap some automation (Lisp / COD) to insert the proper weld at the right location. Wouldn't be too hard. It wouldn't be connected, just happen to be sitting there.

I think the ancillaries tied to the connector might help. Not sure how easily I'll be able to access that from Stratus. But a CAD/EST/CAM report most likely.

Stratus can see it, that was a big ticket item for us. We have joint's baked into our connectors. We still use welds for the actual gap, but things like solder, glue etc. is baked in as an ancillary.

[Darren Young]

I might add the weld data ancillary to all the welds itm connectors too (despite using weld objects) just to streamline reporting of all welds.

We typically want to quantify threads/grooves as well for scheduling the shop.

[bobcat09]

I might add the weld data ancillary to all the welds itm connectors too (despite using weld objects) just to streamline reporting of all welds.

We typically want to quantify threads/grooves as well for scheduling the shop.

We have the weld joint in the connector as well, this keeps all ancillary data in one place for our export. Not sure how we will have our report setup in Stratus yet, but it's there and we can pull it. We have ancillary joint for threads/grooves as well. To get the ancillary to show up, I believe it will need cost added to it. We use ESTmep, so this wasn't an issue, but if your not using ESTmep, you may want to put $.01 to it.

Added bonus, you can create a product list for the joint and create the correct prod info. if you want to take it that far.

[sheetmetalman]

I'm looking at tagging the welds in a spool drawing, Ancillary's wouldn't help for my case.

I was thinking the same thing with a Script/Lisp, but I'm gearing all of my new adventures toward Revit.

Thanks for the replies, I'll ponder some other thoughts....

[bobcat09]

Would tagging the Alias help at all? You can put something in the Alias field and use the Alias tag, that would give you something visual.

[Darren Young]

I've not played w/Dynamo and Fab parts enough but if you can get ahold of the dim's/coords on an Olet, you might be able to manually place a weld at the base.