Ideally yes I'll need a straightened profile too as the sections are laser cut & they'll need the dumensioned drawings. Tgese syraight sections will have additional holes or slots laser cut & then we'll roll the straight

Ive started using weldments/structural members for some of my profiles & its ideal for quick frames like tables or boxes with straight profile sections. Some of the welded frames I have to design have curved tubes or box sections From the quick weldment sketch I created it was great for visual p...

Thanks for the tips
Its frustrating sometimes using solidworks & Im glad Im not the only one with issues like this

I did try doing a convert entities to the vertical edges of the tube but again that flipped over to the incorrect side

Ill try adding the sketch points to my section profiles

Any advice please? Its happening with other drawings I have so its not just the one document

Its so frustrating, & we have lots of similar documents as we manufacture lots of railings & gates etc

Using SolidWorks 2014 Ive got a problem using ordinate dimensions & dimensioning to the edge of round tubes. The base line zero is off a flat edge part & I try dimensioning to the left edge of the infill tubes as shown. (we do it this way as its quicker for the fabricators to measure to the ...

Thanks mike Miller for taking the time to guide me step by step! (sorry for the late reply, Ive had a couple of days off) Ive added the base flange & combined the bodies When it unfolds it just unfolds the base flange (is this correct?). Ive then moved the body get the structural member too disp...

So I was having some fun this morning...... :D This is a great example of the Sheet Metal / Combine method. As a side note, I learned that Solidworks doesn't like to fold in two different directions at once, hence the two Fold features at the end of the tree. I was pleasantly surprised that it crea...

Hello, and welcome to the forum. The way you've done it looks very close to the method I've used the time or two I had a similar situation, but someone that does this more often may have a better option. As Glenn has said the method to do this is not an ease method. I have attached some pictures an...

Hi & my first post here Im needing to model the following type of 30x30 RHS Box Section. We're intending on getting it laser cut (so the V notch cutouts will be up to the inner wall of the RHS) & the idea is that when it comes in it can be bent to the shape shown in the 2nd image. Ive quickl...