Selecting Fasteners

Before entering a command, you can use Selection Wizard and specify various search criteria to easily search for and select fasteners. Then, you can manually add specific fasteners to the whole selection, if required.

Before you begin: Create an assembly containing spot or bead fasteners.
See Also
Selection Criteria
Selecting Fasteners Using a Bounding Box
  1. From the Fastener section of the action bar, click Selection Wizard .
  2. In the Navigation Criteria dialog box, enter your own search criteria.
  3. When done, click OK in the Navigation Results dialog box.
    All the fasteners found are displayed in the Fasteners Instances dialog box.
  4. Optional: To manually add a fastener to the results list, select it in the work area. To add multiple fasteners, draw a selection trap around them.
    The fasteners are then displayed in a dedicated area of the dialog box.
  5. Select one or more fasteners.
  6. Click OK.
    You can now run a command. For example you can edit the properties of the selected fasteners.