best practice for adding a lot of fasteners?
best practice for adding a lot of fasteners?
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NX5.0.5
I am trying to remember if there's an expedited way to add in a lot of the same type of fastener to an assembly.
As an example, if one has a plate with a series of holes in it, created with the new hole feature, referencing a sketch with all the centerpoints in it.
Is there a faster way than manually setting the constraints for each individual fastener?
I suppose "remembered constraints" will help, but is there an even faster way?
What about adding stacked fastener assemblies (ie: a bolt + a washer)?
Thanks.
I am trying to remember if there's an expedited way to add in a lot of the same type of fastener to an assembly.
As an example, if one has a plate with a series of holes in it, created with the new hole feature, referencing a sketch with all the centerpoints in it.
Is there a faster way than manually setting the constraints for each individual fastener?
I suppose "remembered constraints" will help, but is there an even faster way?
What about adding stacked fastener assemblies (ie: a bolt + a washer)?
Thanks.





RE: best practice for adding a lot of fasteners?
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RE: best practice for adding a lot of fasteners?
A "set" of components rather than an assembly of components?
The automatic function of NX6 sounds good but we spend a lot of time it seems adding and constraining the same weld stud, clamp, washer, and nut over and over.
All need to be children of the same master model so our parts list can show these in our specification drawing.
RE: best practice for adding a lot of fasteners?
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RE: best practice for adding a lot of fasteners?
The dimensions of the array can be based on measurement expressions to include even more associativity.
If your hole pattern is modelled as feature array then you can chose to base your component array on its parameters.
We also use part families set under palletes for ease of finding the fasteners and within most common fastener types the mating method is set. So in the odd case when the pattern is non-uniform the dialog will stay within a cycle allowing you to step quickly through selecting the mating faces.
Basically if you do a lot of this kind of work setting up a few things will cut down on the time spent in these otherwise very tedious tasks.
Cheers
Hudson