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DanMarotta12-Amethyst
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July 13, 2011
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Fasteners, Spacers and Washers

  • July 13, 2011
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Hello Creo Users!

I was curious if anyone had designed fasteners like nuts and bolts or even stuff like spacers and washers. If you're willing to share I'd [and I'm sure other members as well] be very interested in seeing your designs. The more unusual the better.

Feel free to embed/attach them in your reply here or upload them into a photo album.

Looking forward to seeing some creative uses.

-Dan

    Best answer by DavorGranic

    Hard to imagine having fun creating large library of nuts an bolts over long period of time.

    I had made screw and nut family table parts and squized as much DIN/ISO standards in those two. Ive created it basicly to make my life easier because all library parts i could get my hands on where with either cosmetic thread or with parameters which were not compatible with my company drawing tables.Not to mention having to translate parameters that could be used to our language from those library parts.

    We gona probably soon let ppl download them from our website so others can use them too.

    nutsbolts.jpg

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    DavidButz1-Visitor
    1-Visitor
    July 14, 2011

    Dan,

    Has anyone designed these things? Probably most of us have. Also, nowadays, folks use libraries that have already been created for them within their organizations or from vendors. Years ago, around Rev. 16 I did a contract job to create a Family Table library of all of a company's fasteners including castle nuts and other odd things. Anyway, for the fun of it, here's a bolt.

    bolt.jpg

    A couple of tricks to make it more realistic. (1) Put an appropriate chamfer on the end of the bolt

    before creating the Helical Sweep which generates the thread. (Cut highly preferable to Protrusion.)

    (2) Sketch a 60 degree triangle for the thread section beyond the end of the bolt so it will easily cut

    through the chamfer. (Use Mirror in Sketcher to make this easier.) (3) Use the abrupt flat end of the

    cut as a sketching plane and Use Edge to capture its triangular shape, add a Centerline at some

    distance away from the bolt axis and then create a Revolved Cut to feather the thread more naturally.

    For what it's worth.

    David

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      DavidButz1-Visitor
      1-Visitor
      July 14, 2011

      Oh, and for the head chamfer you can use either of two techniques. (1) Create a hex head, then

      add a revolved cut for the chamfer, or (2) Create a cylindrical head, use a regular D1XD2 Chamfer, then

      a hex cut.

      head.jpg

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        VladimirPalffy14-Alexandrite
        14-Alexandrite
        August 22, 2011

        Here is mine Chess for Engineers

        sach_01.jpg

        sach_02.jpg

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          DOVANLE1-Visitor
          1-Visitor
          August 22, 2011

          Hello evryone,

          Since we are on the fasteners (nuts and bolts) subject, Has anyone used Machanism applys to bots and nuts to make them turn???

          DV

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          DavorGranic16-Pearl
          16-Pearl
          August 22, 2011

          Once, for fun.But after 10-20 turns trying to position nut on screw i lost all interest. You can create tiny extender mechanisms with 2 nuts and screw or screw and long connection nut.

          Since Vladimir started with chess theme, here is my contribution:

          knight to f3

          ASM0002_0.jpg

            Patriot_1776
            Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
            22-Sapphire II
            December 23, 2011

            Try these: A quick and dirty Tri-lobe screw and a Smalley "multi-level" wave washer I did for fun. didn't bother to get fancy on the rendering as the wave washer I did about 12 years ago. And, yes, that's perfectly cylindrical on both ID and OD (unlike if you used points to define the trajectory curve) and is created using a single trajectory. The bottom pic is a sink drain part I did in '96 when I first learned Pro/E. It's brass tubing where the thread is rolled into the tubing, so there's a threadform on both the ID and OD. Pro/e is good at removing or adding material, but not about displacing it.

            TRILOBE_SCREW-01.JPGSPIRA_WAVE_SPRING3.JPG45SURF-01.JPG

              Patriot_1776
              Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
              22-Sapphire II
              January 3, 2012

              This is all well and good, but as I've been finding out with Windchill, it wants to pull down the whole damn table into your Workspace. Unlike Intralink, which was much better at only pulling the instance you want plus the generic. It's to the point that some of the Senior Engineers here want to do away with the use of family tables. I oppose that, but see their point.

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              RonGrabau1-Visitor
              1-Visitor
              January 3, 2012

              Frank,

              The behavior you are describing for PDMLink is a preference setting. Try setting Include related Family table objects to none. You will only get the generic and instance. Naturally changes to the family table will not be possible unless you download the entire table.

              Ron Grabau

              Patriot_1776
              Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
              22-Sapphire II
              January 4, 2012

              That works in theory. I see that the tables STILL get pulled down, unfortunately.

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