Identify Fasteners
Description
Manual identification of screws/bolts/inserts/nuts in a model with a large number of bodies can be time-consuming. This tool automatically identifies screws/bolts/inserts/nuts, and the found bodies can be meshed using Axis Symmetric Mesh. There may be chances for some of the bodies are not identified in automatic geometric checks. In such cases, users can make use of body by name option by specifying the name of fastener bodies. This will check the given name is a substring in the name of the given bodies which are failed to identify through geometric checks.
- Input
- Output
Screws identified from the above assembly.
Shown below few examples for screws and inserts identified using this tool:
Threaded Screw:
Inserts: