109 — Weld Connections¶
Weld connections are the embedded plates a panel is welded to its neighbours and its structure by. They are what turns a set of panels into a building.
Two ways in:
Main Panel Details → tick Weld Connections
ConstructiVision menu → Weld Connections (
c:cv-feat-weldconn)
Note
This lesson also exists in the browser. Work it in ConstructiVision on the web — same steps, same values, so you can follow either and end up with the same panel.
The biggest grid in the product¶
Nine rows on the page, and a panel can carry many more. That is a lot to look at, and the useful fact is that every row is the same shape — learn one and you have all of them.
column |
what it means |
|---|---|
Enable |
whether this connection is placed |
Type / Rotate-Edge-F |
the plate from the project catalog, and how it is turned |
Snap To / Measure From |
which edge, and which end the distance is read from |
Distance |
along the panel from that edge |
Elev To |
up the panel |
Left Elev/Roof Line, Right Elev/Offset |
the ends, or a roof-line reference |
On Face, Z Offset |
which face, and how far in |
Array Spacing # |
repeat the connection along the run |
Pocket, W/E H/D |
a blockout at the plate, and its size |
Steps¶
Open Main Panel Details and tick Weld Connections.
Enable row one — until it is ticked the row is inert, however complete it looks.
OK, then OK. The connection draws from the position the row already carries.
Note
Distance and Elev To are greyed on this row, and that is not a fault you can fix from here. The product owns those values — the row arrives carrying a position, and Enable is the field that decides whether it is used.
This is the same behaviour tutorials 105, 106 and 107 describe: a greyed field means the answer is already known. If you need a connection somewhere else, change what the row is snapped to rather than fighting the greyed box.
Enable is the whole lesson¶
On a grid this size it is worth being blunt about which field matters. Enable decides whether a connection exists. A row can look completely specified and place nothing.
That is why this lesson sets one field and stops: on this row it is the only one you own.
The Type droplist is the catalog¶
Type is not free text — it lists the plates the project actually carries (EM42 and its
neighbours). Picking one is picking a real part, which is why the list is short and why a
type that is not in your catalog will not appear.
One row, not forty-eight¶
This lesson enables a single connection. A real panel carries many, and filling the grid teaches endurance rather than the feature. Everything in row two behaves exactly as row one does.
Warning
Exporting welds to cv-web is a known issue (CV-1378). Drawing welds in AutoCAD works —
that is what this lesson shows. Carrying them through the .cvp export does not, on most
real panels. If your welds are missing on the cv-web side, this lesson is not the problem
and neither are your numbers.
What to take away¶
Enable is the field that decides whether anything exists. Elevation is the field the erector reads. Everything else places the plate.
Watch the lesson¶
The recording walks a weld connection through both routes — the row in Main Panel Details and the standalone Weld Connections command — with Enable and Elevation set the way the erector reads them.