Showing the welded joints in 3D model

How can show the welded joints in a steel frame structural 3D model drawing without any anotation. Our office is using the basic Microstation software only without any add on.

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  • Unknown said:

     basic Microstation software only without any add on.

    Well...

    ...do you mean something "realistic" like this one?

    If yes (I strongly advice you NOT to do it - too much detail for nothing. As others suggested in your other similar posts use some annotation instead of the actual modeling) it's doable with plain Microstation but requires a rather strong knowledge related with nurbs modeling (I'm talking about the welding itself, not the bike swingarm shown).

    Mail me off line for a very long talking.

    best, Peter

  • PS: and to put the whole "welding modeling" into some realistic perspective:

    This sort of "detail" it's rather required (for having an accurate idea about the aesthetics) for a bike and/or an bespoke industrial product  that costs an arm and a leg (like a Panigale R or an Ariel Atom TR) but it's totally out of real-life meaning for plain industrial purposes (unless you communicate solely with 3d content the likes of 3D PDF).

    Imagine this with (node) weldings "accurately" modeled .... not even a Cray could handle the 3d stuff...

  • Unknown said:

     .... not even a Cray could handle the 3d stuff...

    .....so....that's why we see bolted connections? ;-)

  • Unknown said:

    why we see  bolted connections? ;-)

    Indeed that's the real reason, he he.

    Moral: (a) Cancel your Cray order (b) buy a Black & Decker

  • This was answered before the Communities update

    If you can get the Structural Steel software Phil is talking about, that would probably be the best. If not: In Plane MicroStation you have 2 main options depending on if the elements you want to create a Fillet between are Surfaces or Solids. It looks like the pdf steel shapes are Solids:

    In the Surface & Solid Modeling tools there is a FILLET SURFACES that will create a curve (looks like a weld except it is a surface (ends are not capped)). This option will also work between a Surface and Solid or Surfaces of a Solids. This Surface can be Thickened to a solid object

    The second option is in the Solids Modeling set of tools called FILLET EDGES tool but the separate Solids need to be joined together into a single Solid and the Fillet is part of the final object but handles the change in weld direction better.

    Other options are to project a curve or shape along the joint and I am sure there are others.

    I Hope This Helps Someone Reading This!  (Intergraph>PseudoStation>MicroStation user since 1980's)

    Answer Verified By: Retnarajan James 

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  • This was answered before the Communities update

    If you can get the Structural Steel software Phil is talking about, that would probably be the best. If not: In Plane MicroStation you have 2 main options depending on if the elements you want to create a Fillet between are Surfaces or Solids. It looks like the pdf steel shapes are Solids:

    In the Surface & Solid Modeling tools there is a FILLET SURFACES that will create a curve (looks like a weld except it is a surface (ends are not capped)). This option will also work between a Surface and Solid or Surfaces of a Solids. This Surface can be Thickened to a solid object

    The second option is in the Solids Modeling set of tools called FILLET EDGES tool but the separate Solids need to be joined together into a single Solid and the Fillet is part of the final object but handles the change in weld direction better.

    Other options are to project a curve or shape along the joint and I am sure there are others.

    I Hope This Helps Someone Reading This!  (Intergraph>PseudoStation>MicroStation user since 1980's)

    Answer Verified By: Retnarajan James 

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