Solidworks Fasteners 2

[steve5000]

Hi All

I am a new user to solidworks, my company has upgraded to solidworks 2007 but they did not get the toolbox contents with it. Can any one recommend a good website that I can use to download free fasteners contents to be used in solidworks.

Thank you for your help.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

SolidMech 3.2 is available free from

http://www.freecadapps.com/swdetail...D-SWM&orgvalue=SW&review=4503&rowcolor=fce08d

The latest version (4.1.1) is available for $49 from

http://www.ohyeahcad.com/catalog/index.php?cPath=68&osCsid=8ecd386a451da5a169e458bb49fedd94

SW07-SP3.1
SW06-SP5.1

 

[Standing]

What ever source you get your hardware from please keep in mind that you will be replacing one size screw for another. Will the mates hold?

My heart goes out to you. We started with mismatch of screws sources. We started SolidWorks before ToolBox was released.
One for our Engineers replaced all the ¼-20 x ¾ inch screws to ¼-20 x 1 inch, about 50 of them. He had 100 mate errors. None of our screws could be replaced with any other screw without mate errors. Something had to be done.
Our fix was to start with one screw, save as copy and change the size and description. Now every screw and bolt is built off the same root model. Washers were done the same way. At the same time mate references were inserted. We also built subassemblies of washers and screws.
Bottom line: We can now replace a 10-32 x 1 inch screw with a ½-13 x 1-1/2 screw without mate errors. A lock washer will replace a flat, lock, high collar or star washer. I have tested each reference mate by inserting every screw in an assembly. This also makes it easy to check into PDM; yes we do control revisions of hardware. How we manage the system is left for another time.


Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP3.1
PDM Works, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400

 

[steve5000]

Hi CorBlimeyLimey

Thanks for your reply, but this one is only a 30 Day Free Trial Version. Do you know of any websites that are free to use.

Thanks,

 

[Standing]

SWILKINS274,
Try McMaster Carr

Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP3.1
PDM Works, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

30 days should be plenty to create one of each type of fastener.

http://www.ohyeahcad.com/catalog/index.php

also has a free one-by-one download of it's parts.

As Bradley pointed out, you just need one of each type from which a library can very quickly be created using a DT.


SW07-SP3.1
SW06-SP5.1

 

[macduff]

These are handy to have as well:

http://www.3dcontentcentral.com/3DContentCentral/Default.aspx

http://cad.thomasnet.com/

Best,

Macduff
Colin Fitzpatrick
Mechanical Design Engineer
Solidworks 2007 SP 2.2
Dell 390 XP Pro SP 2
nVida Quadro FX 3450/4000

 

[AnnaWood]

We do not use toolbox... We did the same thing Bradley's company did, although we did not get ourselves boxed in a corner of not being able to replace fasteners. We cloned parts right from the get go.

Start with one master model for each type of fastener you wish to use. This includes dowels, snaps rings, etc. Then copy and clone or use design tables to create your parts.

I can take a 4-40 SHCS and replace with a 3/8-16 SHCS with no mate errors.

We chose to not use design tables to create our fastener library. We have one part/one file. We have been using SolidWorks since 2003 and we only have 100 or so SHCS's in our library folder. Even smaller for our dowel, FHCS, etc.

We found that for the type of work we do we really only use a small subset of hardware. So we do not want the overhead of a lot of un-used configurations or part files. It take a whole 3-5 minutes to create a new fastener when needed.

Regards,


Anna Wood
SW 2007 SP2.2, WinXP
Dell Precision 380, Pentium D940, 4 Gigs RAM, FX3450

http://designsmarter.typepad.com/solidmuse

http://www.phxswug.com

 

[ctopher]

http://machinedesign.partcommunity.com/PARTcommunity/Portal/machine_design

http://www.cbliss.com/inventor/Parts/Fasteners/

Chris
SolidWorks 07 3.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)

 

[Standing]

Thanks for the Stars.

Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP3.1
PDM Works, Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 4 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400