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Work with Bolted Connections
Use the Bolted Connection generator to design and check pretensed bolted
connections loaded with axial or tangential force. The purpose of the design
calculation is to select an appropriate bolted connection after specifying the
required working load. The strength calculation performs a check of bolted
connection (for example, pressure in the thread and bolt stress during joint
tightening and operation).
When you can create and design bolted connections, you can enter them as
one group into Autodesk Inventor.
The generator supports two ways of designing bolted connections. The first
uses an aperture you have already created in the Inventor model and, on the
basis of the parameters of the aperture, selects the correct dimensions for the
components in the bolted connection. The second method designs the whole
connection, including the aperture which is then created during entry (or
drilling) into the selected connection.
You can use either method to select fastener components directly from Content
Center. You can display the standard components dialog box to add more
information (for example, material values, information from external databases,
or other company information).
In this two-part exercise, you create a bolted connection. You select the bolted
connection components and the bolted connection placement. In the second
part of the exercise, you change the type of component of the already inserted
bolted connection.
The completed exercises are shown in the following figure.
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