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[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

An outside corner can't have a fillet due to the geometry of the joint. You could do a groove weld if you felt like it, but almost every engineering drawing I've seen will put a double fillet symbol instead of a proper fillet/groove combo.

If you ever want to tear your hair out I've heard welding symbol charts are basically indecipherable to non welder folk. Honestly looks pretty simple to me, but I was raised by a welder, so maybe I've been looking at them longer than most

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago

i did a CAD course, it never touched welding symbols, not that we saw much of symbols at all, mostly very basic tolerences and surface finnish