Creating Custom Weldment Profiles in SolidWorks

In SolidWorks you can create your own weldment profiles to use when creating weldment structural members. See how to create the profile as a library feature part, then file it in a defined location so it is available for selection.

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[pgwidjaja]

You must have the sketch selected before saving as. If the part is already a lib feature part, you must save it as a sld part file, then select the sketch and save as. Your sketch icon should have an ‘L’ next to it.

[WTRZPH]

It's very important to select sketch before doing Save As. Other wise don’t create a profile.

[rangapremathilaka]

it is very important to me while doing my structural design. Thank you very much.

[trexinvert]

I think it's important to "emphasize" a few non-intuitive steps:

1.) You MUST CLICK and leave the SKETCH HIGHLIGHTED then click save. It will help to save twice, again, after name creation. Why? It makes no sense. You know what will help you to remember this? How STUPID it is.

2.) You must "hunt" for the weldment folder after clicking the file format sldlfp. Unlike when you create a form tool, where it "smartly" directs you to the exact saving location. You must remember to back out to the LANG/ENG/Weldment folder.

Again, just remember how STUPID this is. So many commenter's below got "stuck" on this.

[raymundoortiz]

You missed the part of the permissions to write in the folder...

[jimmcmanus]

Very helpful in understanding how to save a custom profile

[HrothgarDoran]

Very nice tutorial. Very informative and answered all of my questions.

[acewelding]

I am having an issue saving to the final folder. I do not have permissions to save in this location even though I am the administrator of this computer, any ideas? Many thanks, great Vid

[hctor]

Great video! I'm really thankful. I hope that you will make more video on the future. Regards!

[lawrenceamanya]

Thanks for the the good work, however how do I save my custom profiles in a folder on a different partition other than C and my custom profiles be detected by the software

[fahhaamaatir]

I keep getting "Library Feature is Empty", when I try to use it in my Models. Kondly help.
Thanks.

[Razedrisk]

Hi there, i've got a problem. When i save the weldment profile as a library part i can't open it as a weldment in another part (it says the library part is empty). What should I do?

[mahmoudabbaszadeh]

thanks for this video. it saves me a lot of time

[pinchasnayman]

Thank you so much for the wonderful lesson

[rokhimiabdanfitri]

thank, i can fix it after waching this vidio😀

[Cobb-fk]

i dont have permission to access this folder destination, can we unlock the permission for this purpose?

[muhammadsheheryar]

There is a better and easier way to do this. Just copy one of the default profiles and edit the sketch as you wish.

[pucoski]

I have a profile, C channel 25x50mm with holes on sides, how can I convert it to weldment profile so can the holes appear too???

[burakayan]

Awesome video
But it says that i dont have permission to save that file over in that location.
How can i solve this?

[sumeethegade]

Hi i want to add std padeye in design library. Can we make Padeye feature with equation in design library for future use?