Smartfastener or Not To Smartfastener
Smartfastener or Not To Smartfastener
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All,
Just looking a vote here. My buddy and I are having some differences of the Toolbox fasteners and how to use them in an assembly. I choose assemble one fastener at a time and pattern it by feature driven or circular/linear pattern. He chooses to use Smartfasteners because it quicker (he says) and looks better in the assembly tree. I say it's better to do it my way because of past threads with bugs in the function and then in turn causing errors in models.
Let me know your thoughts,
Just looking a vote here. My buddy and I are having some differences of the Toolbox fasteners and how to use them in an assembly. I choose assemble one fastener at a time and pattern it by feature driven or circular/linear pattern. He chooses to use Smartfasteners because it quicker (he says) and looks better in the assembly tree. I say it's better to do it my way because of past threads with bugs in the function and then in turn causing errors in models.
Let me know your thoughts,
Macduff 
Colin Fitzpatrick
Sr. Mechanical Designer
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RE: Smartfastener or Not To Smartfastener
Chris
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RE: Smartfastener or Not To Smartfastener
SF are a great idea in principle, but I don't like the practice. I haven't tried them in SW05 or 06 so don't know if it has improved.
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RE: Smartfastener or Not To Smartfastener
Best,
Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Sr. Mechanical Designer
macduff's SW page
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RE: Smartfastener or Not To Smartfastener
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RE: Smartfastener or Not To Smartfastener
Just create a fastener type, say 1/4"-20 SHCS, & use a DT to control the lengths & materials.
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RE: Smartfastener or Not To Smartfastener
RE: Smartfastener or Not To Smartfastener
BTW - we developed our own "library" of hardware one or two versions before the ToolBox was released. So we've never bothered to implement the Smart Fasteners.
Also I wil place one set of hardware & use a Feature Pattern any time I can.
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RE: Smartfastener or Not To Smartfastener
Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Sr. Mechanical Designer
macduff's SW page
Inhouse System
Pentium(4)2.80GHz
Ram 1.00 GB
SW2005 Office SP 3.1
Windows 2000 SP4.0
NIVIDA Quadro4 750 XGL