Patterning fasteners

[fighterpilot]

Scenario: Plate in assy w/ 5 holes. Holes are not part of a pattern in the plate. Have fastener, would like to place one fastener in a hole with surface contact and coincidence constraint. Now, how do I get the other 4 holes populated w/o placing each individually? I'd like to pick the surface, define it as common to all fasteners, and then select the other 4 axis and have them populate.

V5R14SP1 on Windoze 2K

Thanks for the assistance.

 

[Configurator]

Yah, you've got to be careful with saves in CATIA.

So were you prompted in Pro/E to overwrite a file with whatever is in memory? That seems dangerous.

 

[fighterpilot]

Config,

Yes....But. Pro/E would store files like 1.prt.1, 1.prt.2, 1.prt.3, 1.prt.x and so on and so forth. If you happened to overwrite a file you could just go to the disk and delete the latest saved version. Or, if using Intralink, just undo the save and you are back to where you started.

 

[Configurator]

Interesting... when does it store them? On the closing of a window?

 

[fighterpilot]

Stores them to disk when you hit save. If you just close the window there is a way upon file/open to either pull from the disk or from memory. It warns you if you pull from the disk if a later version of the object is already in memory.