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Configure Smart Fasteners

Configure Smart Fasteners - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Configure Smart Fasteners

- [Instructor] After you're done setting your permissions, it's time to move on to category five, or the last area in the toolbox settings, the Smart Fasteners options. Now you can see here there's not a lot of windows and not a lot of options, but, basically, what you're trying to decide here is the certain criteria for things like your washers, what your automatic fasteners look like once you insert them, and then what fasteners to use by default when you have non-Hole Wizard holes. So, typically, when you use the Hole Wizard, you say what kind of thread and what kind of screw you're going to use. Toolbox is going to be able to understand that, because it's also controlling the Hole Wizard settings, and input the right piece of hardware. But if not, by default, it's going to use the socket head cap screw, as you can see below. If we want to change that, we can just click here and dictate something else. But I'm going to leave that as the default right now. Moving back up, Automatic…

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