From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Design for Mechatronics
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Fastening hardware using the toolbox - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Design for Mechatronics
Fastening hardware using the toolbox
- [Instructor] Now that we have our simplified version of our robotic arm somewhat assembled here, I'm going to take a quick look at inserting fasteners or hardware into my assemblies using the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox. So the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox is a CAD library containing over one million commonly used machine components, such as nuts, bolts, screws, washers, bearings, and so on. And all of these parts are prebuilt for us in a variety of sizes. So we actually do not need to design or CAD up our own machine components in most cases. An important note here is that the Toolbox is only available for SOLIDWORKS Professional or Premium users. So if you have only a SOLIDWORKS Standard license, you won't be able to use the Toolbox unfortunately. And of course, you'll have to design your own components or pull them from a original manufacturer website. But if we do have the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox, I can just navigate over to my side panels here, and I'll take a look in the Design Library. And I should…
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