Inserting Studs Into Assemblies

[mariner729]

When inserting captive studs/nutserts into sheetmetal assemblies, is there an easy way of inserting a dimple/hole into the sheetmetal part at the same time. It seems very time consuming inserting holes into the part and then inserting the stud/nutsert into the assembly. Thanks for any help

 

[TheTick]

If your holes are preexisting and part of a pattern, you can make a component pattern. In the help index see "patterns --> components in assemblie --> Derived component Pattern".

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[MadMango]

To expand, if you use Hole Wizard to define the hole patterns in your sheet metal part, you can use that to "auto-populate" the part with your captive inserts with a Derived Component Pattern.

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[JNR]

Here's something interesting - anyone got any real solutions?

When doing this kind of operation, where the assembly of the part deforms the material, it causes some issues. Obviously you want the hole to be the correct size for the sheet metal part as punched. You have to make the stud at it's correct size also. Unfortunately when they are assembled in real life the stud swages the sheetmetal. In the CAD assembly it is not really efficient to try to model this as an assembly edit or new configuration of the detail part. So what happend is you get an interference between the two. This doesn't seem so bad until you make a drawing of the assembly. Then, because the two parts interfere, you start loosing lines (edges) on those parts on your drawing views (and not always just the intersections either!). The same happens if you have parts that are positive press fits where the diameter of the "shaft" is larger than the diameter of the "hole".

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