Creating Manufacturing Fasteners from Fastener

You can create manufacturing fasteners from fasteners.

  1. Click Manufacturing Fasteners from Fasteners .
    The Create Manufacturing Fasteners From Fasteners panel appears. Default names are provided for the manufacturing product and its geometry. You can edit them.
  2. Optional: Select a manufacturing product.

    If there is only one, it is set as the default.

  3. Select the design fasteners:
    • Select in 3D view a set a points
    • Multi-selection with rectangle trap.

      Selection is displayed via arrows. Position and direction are retrieved from design fastener.

  4. Optional: From the context toolbar that appears, you can:
    • Select a surface which helps to re-compute and displays the normal based on the selected surface by clicking Select a normal support to set a direction for MFTs .
    • Invert the axis of all the selected point by clicking Reverse the direction of all the selected position(s) . Alternatively, to invert the axis of one point, select the arrow associated with the point.
  5. Select the rivet reference:
    • If you have imported a rivet table, select a reference name in the Reference name list. The parameters of the selected reference appear in the Rivet Parameters area. You can edit the rivet parameters.
    • If there is no rivet table, expand the Rivet Parameters area. The rivet reference is displayed as an editor and the rivet parameters are editable. If the stack depth min value is greater than the stack depth max value, an error message is displayed.
  6. Optional: To position a robot, define the direction of the y-axis identified by a blue arrow.
    1. Click Set Tangent Direction for All Positions from the context toolbar.
    2. Select an element of the geometry that has the direction you want the y-axis to be.
      The y-axis of each manufacturing fasteners is updated with the new direction:
      Tip: Alternatively, you can modify the direction of the y-axis using Tangent Modification of Manufacturing Fastener from the Manufacturing Pattern panel.
  7. User Parameters is available for deleting or adding parameters when selected. Me > Preferences Machining > Operation > User Interface, User Parameters .
  8. Click OK.
  9. Select Manufacturing View
    The recognized fasteners will be visible using the filter Sort by Machinable Fasteners. When hovering the mouse over machinable fastener then the corresponding machinable fastener is highlighted.
    Note: Right-clicking on a fastener allows you to edit the parameters.