Welding Drawing Inventor. The dialog box opens when you place a welding symbol. There are disadvantages and advantages of doing this.
If welding symbols or end fills were created in the model you can retrieve them in the drawing view. This is fantastically useful as it is also then possible to pull this information onto a 2D drawing. You could Split the faces to represent the weld locations if desired then add Weld symbols in drawing.
Select Face 2 and select the face indicated by number 2 in the figure.
There are disadvantages and advantages of doing this. You can create weld symbols in several ways. If Weldingiam is the only model open it is automatically selected as the source for the drawing. Subcontractors are often required to interpret weld symbols on engineering drawings from perhaps the main contractor or client to determine the type of weld needed.