BMWELDSYMRETRIEVE command

Places welding symbols added to a welding feature in the drawing views.

Description

Retrieves weld information (welding symbols) from 3D weld bodies that contain welding features. Weld information is created with Add weld symbol properties option from the context menu of a welding feature from the Mechanical Browser panel.

This command is available only in Paper Space.

Method

Select weld solid to retrieve its welding symbol.

There are two use cases to activate the mechanical entities:
  1. When creating a new drawing that contains mechanical entities:
    1. Set the LOADMECHANICAL2D system variable to ON (1).
    2. Start a new drawing using a Mechanical2d template.
  2. When opening a drawing that contains mechanical entities:
    1. Set the LOADMECHANICAL2D system variable to ON (1).
    2. Open an existent ACM drawing and start special symbols creation.
Note: These dimensions are compatible with the legacy AutoCAD® Mechanical application.
Note: The dimensions will be added to the AM_5 layer.
Note: After opening a drawing that contains mechanical entities, filling other drawings with mechanical-related data will be done on-demand in contrast to previous versions. It will be possible when a user copies the mechanical-related entities to the vanilla drawing. In case of copying entities that are not related to the mechanical data, a vanilla drawing will not be filled with mechanical data.
Note: When you open a drawing that contains mechanical entities, but the LOADMECHANICAL2D system variable is OFF, a warning bubble is displayed at the status bar that describes the situation and provides a hyperlink to immediately enable and load the mechanical 2d modules.

Options within the command

Auto
Retrieve welding symbols created for all visible weld solids of the selected viewports.