Weld Annotations

Drafting lets you generate fillet weld annotations on a drawing. Since user welds and user swept welds are customized welds, the welding symbols on these features depend on requirements. These symbols can be any of those shown in the tables below.

This page discusses:

See Also
Generating Welding Symbols on a Drawing
About Weld Lengths in Annotations

Fillet Weld

Creation Option Description
Leg Length specifying two identical length values Prefix z followed by a single weld dimension
Leg Length specifying unequal length values Both lengths are shown. The smaller length is followed by x, followed by the higher length.

V-Butt Weld

Creation Option Description
–

Convex

Double

Bevel-Butt Weld

Creation Option Description
Convex

Broad root

Square-Butt Weld

Creation Option Description
Convex

Flare-Groove Weld

Creation Option Description
Convex

Dashed Weld

Creation Option Description
Dashed The annotation for a dashed weld shows the weld specifications in the following format: Weld size Symbol Number of instances X Length (spacing)
Example of an Intermittent Dashed Weld

Weld size (a15) Symbol , Number of instances (4), Length (20), Spacing (40)