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Add hardware to assemblies

Add hardware to assemblies - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Add hardware to assemblies

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- [Instructor] When you're building assemblies, a lot of the times you're going to be adding in hardware into individual tapped holes, or you might have some type of a pattern hole in a part that you want to combine together with some hardware and then bolt some things together. So to do that, you traditionally choose like a linear pattern, and you figure out what the measurement is between the holes. So in this case, I'd measure from this hole to that hole. Figure out what the pattern spacing is, and then I would create a linear pattern here with this tool here, and pattern this across over these other holes. However, what happens if you get up here to these holes up here, right? Those aren't on a regular linear pattern or any kind of linear measurement. So they're just randomly placed holes. How do we add those fasteners? Now, of course, you could manually add each one of those fasteners in, drag 'em in, and then…

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