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Looking through a number of fastener libraries we have access to, I'm noticing that they handle material assignment differently.
So what would you do if you were designing a fastener library from scratch?
Looking for suggestions and a discussion to guide my thinking on what to do with our current libraries.
I put my fasteners in files by material. I have a cap head screw file for 316SS, one for 18-8PH and one for A534 steel.
My thinking was that once a material was selected for the application, only a change in length and in some rare situations diameter would be needed. Seldom would a different material be needed for an application.