How can i draw a welding geometry nicely along the highlighted section?

Hi guys.
How can i draw a welding geometry nicely along the highlighted section? Tried to used swept boss, but the geometry does not properly attached to the shell and pipe flange

4 Answers

Try using the 'weldment' features rather than brute forcing it with a sweep.

Try it but it does not shows the geometry, or i did not enable something for the weldments to be showed? Plus i need the geometry to be solid so that i can analyze the strength of the connection in Ansys

I don't know why it doesn't show for you, I didn't have to enable anything. I do notice there's a visibility toggle for weld beads, but it doesn't turn them off for me, the bead is always there. I don't work with weldment features so I don't have a good explanation for why it doesn't work for you, I'm just going with the defaults.

In my sample part, the bead shows up as a 3rd 'body', I guess you could 'combine' it with the parts being welded to get the representative solid for your ansys study.

Thanks Robert, sorry for the late reply, was busy solving other simulation issues. I'll check around to see if i can go by your model.