From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine

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Adding screws without the SOLIDWORKS toolbox

Adding screws without the SOLIDWORKS toolbox - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Designing a Stirling Engine

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Adding screws without the SOLIDWORKS toolbox

- [Instructor] This video covers how to add screws from a STEP file. in case you don't have the SolidWorks Toolbox installed. And so we'll go over some of the same details as that previous toolbox video. If you do have the toolbox installed, then I'd highly recommend that you use that to add the screws. Just because it gives you a lot more flexibility if you want to adjust them later. It's not strictly necessary to add the screws to the model, it's just a good way to visualize how everything fits together and to check that there aren't any problems. So if you don't have the toolbox, you can still use STEP models of the screws. These are exactly the same size as the other screws and they're identical in terms of the geometry. So they'll fulfill exactly the same function. Firstly, download the files to your Project folder. There's two screws, the first one is called m4 by 25 countersunk screw. We've saved these files as…

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