Anyone Have Ideas for showing safety wired bolts?
Anyone Have Ideas for showing safety wired bolts?
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I was wondering if anyone has any good methods to approach items like safety wired fasteners on models and/or drawings
Frank
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RE: Anyone Have Ideas for showing safety wired bolts?
RE: Anyone Have Ideas for showing safety wired bolts?
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RE: Anyone Have Ideas for showing safety wired bolts?
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RE: Anyone Have Ideas for showing safety wired bolts?
Rob Stupplebeen
RE: Anyone Have Ideas for showing safety wired bolts?
What do you want to accomplish?
You need a model of a drilled bolt and castle nut. These must show up on your BOM so that you can order them.
I would have to think about the wire. It can easily be modeled with SolidWorks' routing feature and called up on your BOM. You would not be able to re-use the resulting part on another assembly. The next time around, you would have to model it again.
I call up items like threadlocker by inserting empty parts. This generates a BOM entry. You need a note to tell people to use the stuff. You can draw the locking wire on your drawing, as opposed to modeling it. This may be a better way to interface with your MRP/ERP.
RE: Anyone Have Ideas for showing safety wired bolts?
Chris
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RE: Anyone Have Ideas for showing safety wired bolts?
Safety wire indicated fasteners using item X (wire) IAW Spec ZZZZ
Then creating some simple spec like the one I linked above.
That way you don't need to sketch it everytime in a drawing or create assembly specific twisted wire models through fastener heads.
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