SolidWorks Tab and Slot for Weldments — Self-Locating Parts, Flat Patterns and DXF Export
Every fabrication shop has a corner full of welding jigs. Custom fixtures built for a single assembly, used for a single production run, and then stored indefinitely because throwing away tooling feels wrong even when you know you’ll never use it again. SolidWorks’ Tab and Slot feature offers a fundamentally different approach: design the parts so they locate themselves. Instead of external fixtures holding components in alignment during welding, interlocking geometry cut directly into the sheet metal parts does the positioning for you. ...