I'm fairly certain the root cause of the graphics bugs I've been encountering lately has to do with my use of the Weld Bead feature in my assembly models.

Typically it's pretty mild, just some screen flickering or a few parts temporarily not showing, that immediately reappear when I zoom to fit.

This one however, was so far beyond anything I've seen, that I just felt compelled to share with the community. If for nothing else than a mild chuckle. Zero errors in the model itself. But evidently weld beads make the rendering engine big mad sometimes lol.

**UPDATE: Issue has been resolved thanks to u/dirty_d2 ** >> Choose "Offset Face" chamfer type to achieve functionality described in headline.

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Allow me to preface this by stating I'm aware that using the "Angle-Distance" chamfer type, you can individually flip each edge you select.

But I'm curious as to why that option appears to be unavailable in the feature manager for "Distance-Distance" chamfers. Is it showing up somewhere that I'm just not noticing? Or is this just a known drawback of using the D1/D2 chamfer type for asymmetric chamfers?

Would be kinda nice not needing to bust out my Ti-89 to calculate the angle trigonometrically every time I try to use this.

Where in the hell can I find the appearance file or texture or pattern or decal or whatever it is that SolidWorks uses as the default appearance for solid weld bead features? It's visible in the model graphics, but the appearance manager tells a different story entirely.

Anyone else come across this weird behavior and found a solution?

For context, my end goal here is to mimic that realistic weave pattern that's shown on the highlighted face on the plain gray body above it representing a different shape weld bead, not natively included with SW, which I manually modeled as a solid.

I'm trying to communicate something visually to a client and I want to minimize any chance of confusion by having the manually modeled welds mimic a realistic appearance.

P.S. - While any sort of explanation of what's going on here is preferred, I'll gladly accept workaround suggestions in anyone has them.

Please & Thank you 🙏

Hi folks, I have this very nicely detailed multibody part model downloaded from a vendor's website which, as you can probably guess by looking at it, I would get much more value out of if I had it in the form of a dynamic / flexible assembly model (so I can trace paths of motion of attachments & ensure pieces can be removed from their jig with the clamp in the open position).

As soon as I attempted to insert the first solid body into its own external part file, I realized this was gonna be a large time sink to do each one individually, and this isn't even that big of a model. So I was curious if anyone knows of a built-in tool already present in solidworks, or has a macro they might be willing to share which could export all of the files with a single click or hotkey.

Additional Note:
- It did occur to me that one potential method to accomplish this would be to export the model as a step file, then change my import settings, & then force solidworks to import the model data as an assembly on the way back in, & that probably would be a suitable quick and dirty workaround in this particular case. But that doesn't seem like a particularly robust practice to me.