Smart fasteners across a gap 1

[KyleWilcox]

Hi there, right now I've got two circular parts sandwiched together (totally symmetrical). there's screw holes through them, mated to position them together.

however, the screw holes are on a raised surface relative to the contacting face. SW will only put fasteners through either piece seperately; it will not put a long fastener through both holes...

all holes are made with the hole wizard (and as mentioned, it will put a separate fastener through each hole seperately, but not one long fastener joining both holes)

I want this:

   ||   ||
 []||===||>
   \\   //
    \\ //
     |||

I can only get this:

   ||   ||
 []||> <||[]
   \\   //
    \\ //
     |||

[]==>   being a bolt

anyone know??

Thanks a bunch!

Kyle

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Was the hole created as one through hole or two separate holes 180° apart or circular-patterned or ????


SW07-SP3

 

[KyleWilcox]

i've tried

1) creating a single hole and circular patterning it

2) creating a sketch with a line, circular patterned the line, and placing all the holes using the end of each line

same result either way...

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Have you tried making a single Through All hole?

I don't have Toolbox so cannot try the standard Smart Fasteners feature.


SW07-SP3

 

[KyleWilcox]

well, it's two separate components, so in that regard it needs separate features per component...

I did try mirroring the body in a single component for kicks, unfortunately didn't work.

thanks for the suggestions...

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Also check out Help > SolidWorks Help Topics > Search and search for unsupported hole types.




SW07-SP3

 

[KyleWilcox]

for the record, I solved this... turned out to be two problems,

1) I had other features altering the part after the hole wizard, which I think caused SW to have trouble recognizing the hole properly. Moved the holes to the bottom of the feature tree.

2) the fastener diameter I was using didn't have a long enough "predefined library" length to span the whole distance (hahaha). Used a larger diameter for the time being...

all good now!

 

[krywarick6]

The Hole series tab of the hole wizard can help this also. Define the holes series in the assembly and it will adjust the part models, not just a time oriented feature.

It should also kick in the Smart Fastener and insert the appropriate fastener by default if you have Toolbox. If it's not the correct type of fastener then you can change it to what you want.

The default is based on your system settings.

Just my two cents.

Christopher Zona - Product Designer
Concord, Ontario