Implied Welds

IWELD components provide a link in the Fabrication database to the position of a weld that must be inserted to join two piping components or tubes. For example: fit a flange onto the end of a tube. These welds do not have to be explicitly defined as they are implied by the nature of the components involved.

A connection can have an IWELD element associated with it if:

• It has a Ckey (Connection key) of types BW or SW.

  Note: When an explicitly defined weld (RWELD element) to used to connect two components, the software does not insert an implied weld at that point.