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Placing fasteners from the content center

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Placing fasteners from the content center

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There's one final way we can add new parts to this assembly and that's through our content center. By default, Inventor ships with an enormous array of standard components, such as nuts, bolts, washers, and other types of fasteners. On the screen, you can see a Content Center.iam file that I created so that I can show you this. If you rotate the model just a little bit, so that we can see the top a little bit better, I'll explain what we have here. I've gone ahead and created a base plate that has four threaded 1/4 20 screw holes in it. Above that, there's another plate that has corresponding holes that are counterbored and set to be clearance fit for a quarter twenty screw. Rather than manually creating every single screw, the Content Center will let you select from and generate a huge number of fasteners from a library. To do that, we're gonna go to the Component panel and we're gonna select the drop down below Place. From the list, we're gonna select Place from Content Center and…

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