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Using specialized fasteners for sheet metal in an assembly

Using specialized fasteners for sheet metal in an assembly - Inventor Tutorial

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Using specialized fasteners for sheet metal in an assembly

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Specialized fasteners that are permanently attached sheet metal components are a common time save for assembling sheet metal parts. Inventor has a built in library of over 1 million standard components including studs, stand offs and other PEM brand fasteners. Adding these fasteners to an assembly is incredibly easy, as we'll see. There's a specialized group of tools inside of Autodesk Inventor called design accelerators. These design accelerators can be found under the design tab and offer a lot of different mechanical elements. The one that we want to focus on today is called the Bolted Connection. What a Bolted Connection does is it allows us to work in the context of an assembly and add various fasteners that will hold this assembly together without having to pre-place the holes that we normally would. In this case what we want to do is we want to create a through connection. We want to place this on a point. And now begin to select how we have this built out, starting with a…

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