Thanks so much for your great reply. You pretty much confirmed what I thought. Draw as much as I can using the weldment module and anything that deviates from that even if welded on is added in an upper level assembly CAD file. The only downside to this is some of these items would also affect the nearby tubes and I wanted to have these cut at VR3 Engineering as a tube kit. So with that said, I will have a tubing kit about 90% coped with a few items that will need hand adjusting to work with the items I added in the assembly. I might still be able to use cutting planes and such but that may not be worth the added effort.

I see you drew up a Pitts. I also bought the rights to the Lil Bitts and its sort of a mini pitts and I will tackle that fuselage next in Solidworks with a few mods to replace the unsprung gear and add a grove type spring gear.

Best regards,

Marc