Fastening

What's New

Fastening Basics

Related Guides and Resources

User Interface

Action Bar

Fastener Section

Product Edition Section

Tools Section

Engineering Tools Section

Context Toolbars

Action Bar Commands and Contextual Commands in Mixed and Optimized Modes

Fastening Access to Content

Predefined Queries

Customizing Preferences

Creating Fastener References

Creating Spot Fastener References

Creating Bead Fastener References

Creating Symmetric Fasteners

Creating Bundles

About Bundles

Bundles in Collaborative Lifecycle Management

Creating Fasteners Bundles

Modifying Bundles

Modifying Bundles

Modifying Bundles by Using Autostacking

Instantiating Fasteners

About Stacking Computation Modes

About Organizing Stackings

About Smart Projection

About Colored Stacking Parts

About Previewing Fasteners Instances

About the Pointers Displayed While Instantiating Fasteners

Instantiating Bead Fasteners

Instantiating Spot Fasteners

Instantiating Flexible Fasteners

Specifying a Stacking Using Autostacking

Creating Flexible Fasteners

About Flexible Fasteners

Creating Flexible Fastener References

Updating Flexible Fasteners

Flexible Fastener References from a Single Flexible Fastener Reference

Legacy - Flexible Length Fasteners

Legacy - About Flexible Length Fasteners

Legacy - Updating Flexible Length Fasteners

Legacy - Updating Specific Flexible Length Fasteners Using the Wizard

About Spot Fastener Assembly with Secondary Instances

Modifying Fasteners

Repositioning Fasteners

About Positioning Analysis

Repositioning Fasteners Using Positioning Analysis

Analyzing Fasteners Positions and Thicknesses Using a Batch File

Modifying Fasteners

Legacy - Modifying Fasteners

Viewing the Stacking Content

Selecting Fasteners

Selecting Fasteners

Selecting Fasteners Using a Bounding Box

Selection Criteria

Legacy - Fastening Evolved Parts Using Fastener Stacking Assistant

Cutting, Copying and Pasting a Fastener Instance

Visualizing Fasteners

Visualizing the K Vector and 3D Points

Visualizing Technological and Axis Representations

Visualizing Fasteners Using a Customized Representation

Legacy - Instantiating Locator Patches

Legacy - Selecting the Engineering Template

Legacy - Locating the Engineering Template

Legacy - Defining the Stacking

About Exploring Fasteners Dependencies in Relations

Creating Annotations

Reviewing Fasteners

About the Report of Fasteners

Generating a Short Report

Generating an Immersive Report

Creating a Rules Immersive Report

Reporting Using a Batch

Checking the Design Consistency by Running a Batch in CATUTIL

Checking the Rules Consistency

About Fastener Check Rules

Fastener Check Rules

Importing and Exporting Data

About the Import of Fasteners From a Neutral File

Importing Data

Exporting Data Using a Batch

Working with Fastener Review

Using B.I. Essentials in Fastener Review

About Performing a Fastener Analysis

Performing a Fastener Analysis

Exploring Fastener Analysis Results

Running a User-Defined Open Procedure

Working with Drafting

About the Representation of 2D Spot Fasteners

About Extracting 2D Curves From Unified Bead Fasteners in a Drawing View

About Extracting Flexible Fasteners in Drawing Views

Fastening Parameters

Extracting 3D Spot Fasteners in a Drafting View

Using B.I. Essentials in Fastening

Unloading Objects

Creating Points

Creating a Point Using Coordinates

Creating a Point on a Curve

Creating a Point on a Plane

Creating a Point on a Surface

Creating a Point Using the Center of a Circle/Sphere/Ellipse

Creating a Point Tangent on a Curve

Creating a Point Between Two Points

Creating Lines

Creating a Line Between Two Points

Creating a Line Using a Point and a Direction

Creating a Line Normal to a Curve

Creating a Line Tangent to a Curve

Creating a Line Normal to a Surface

Creating a Line at the Bisection of Two Lines

Creating a Line Up to an Element

Creating a Series of Lines Using the Last Point

Defining an Axis System

Creating Planes

Creating a Plane Offset From another Plane

Creating a Plane Parallel to a Plane and through a Point

Creating a Plane Normal to another Plane

Creating a Plane Through Three Points

Creating a Plane Through Two Lines

Creating a Plane Through a Point and a Line

Creating a Plane Through a Planar Curve

Creating a Plane Normal to a Curve

Creating a Plane Tangent to a Surface

Creating a Plane Using an Equation

Creating a Mean Plane Through Points

Creating a Plane Between two Planes

Administration

Migrating Fasteners to Bundles

About Migrating Fasteners to the New Data Model

Migrating Legacy Fastener Instances by Running the Fastener Bundle Migration Tool

About the Fastener Migration Report

Setting the App Environment

Working with the Fastener Standard and Reference Fastener Type Files

Fastener Symbols

Defining Your Own Fastener Symbols

Customization of the Fst_Standard File

Customization of the Reference Fastener Type Files

Preparing the Migration of Bead Fasteners to the Unified Typing Mode

Preparing the Migration of Spot Fasteners to the Unified Typing Mode

Preparing the Migration of Fasteners Connections to the Unified Typing Mode

About Data Setup for Fastening

Reference Information

Fastening File-based Design Import

Fastening Database Design Import

Knowledge Packages

FastenerFunctions (no NLS) Functions

Fastener Types

Standard Types