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  1. TheWorks

    Fasteners on curved surface

    Handleman, thanks. I used a mate for the first screw, then a circular component pattern to fill the rest. Worked great.
  2. TheWorks

    Fasteners on curved surface

    Thanks guys. Smcadman, your solution was great. All I had to do was turn on the temporary axis, do a Coincident mate between the screw axis and the axis of the hole, and then a Tangent mate between the bottom side of the screw head and the cylinder wall. Do you guys know how I can now...
  3. TheWorks

    Fasteners on curved surface

    Working on a sheet metal assembly where I need to put some screws through the side wall of a circular cylinder. But SolidWorks refuses to properly mate the screws to the holes in the assembly. Can't add any relations to get the screws properly positioned relative to the holes, and Smart...

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