solidworks

Structure System and Weldments
Creating Curved Beams and Merging Tangent
Members
You can create curved beams from primary and secondary members in a structure system.
Curved members behave the same way as linear members where you can add secondary
members between them.
If you select a 3D curve or spline as a reference, the member can only pierce through
the center of the profile. Also, in some scenarios, you cannot sweep members with 2D
or 3D splines because of their curvature and radius.
You can also merge multiple members that are tangent to each other into a single member
with the Merge Tangent Members option and add secondary members between merged
members.
Split Members
You can split primary and secondary members by specifying references or dimensions.
For Reference type, you can select faces, reference planes, or members. For Dimension
type, you can specify a dimension for length, direction vector, and the number of split
member instances to create.
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