Hi,

McMaster-Carr is one of my goto places for hardware - and they do seem to have CAD files for everything - at lease everything I have purchased had them available - even individual files for things like press-in metric inserts - somebody did a lot of work.

I tried out the align function - pretty neat - it would save time - but I cannot get it to do anything but position the fastener objects at the surface or all the way in the hole - cannot seem to click on the center of the "face" between the "threaded" part and the head of the fastener - maybe if I create the "threaded" part separate from the head.

I will dig into the .htm file - I used to program for a living - but that was 25+ years ago - and much has changed.

Thanks again for all your help.

Frederick

Between Max's Nuts & Bolts script and McMaster, I get pretty much all the hardware models that I need.

Maybe a bit of a subtlety, but note the check box allowing you to include or exclude Head, Shank, Washers, or Nut.

I do acknowledge that the addition of the threads does complicate the models and that Max's code is a challenging to understand.

--Larry

Hi again,

I went back and took a closer look at the .htm file and saw the code you mentioned.

Can this kind of code be executed in a script file or must it be done in an .htm file?

Thanks.

Frederick

Hi Frederick
If you don't need the threads, you can set the "Thread length" value to 0.
Here you can see this option both in ui and inside .htm file. (Line 97)
Also, "Angle" value controls the head and nut's fillet angle.

Hi Frederick,

re:
> Can this kind of code be executed in a script file or must it be done in an .htm file?

It can go in either the .js file or the .htm file.

A long time ago (maybe V2 ?) there was a performance advantage to putting it in the .htm file which is why it's there. There isn't any difference anymore.

- Michael

Hi,

It's an impressive bit of work but it appears to only make plain head bolts - no socket head, pan head, button head, flat head - all with a hex recess for the Allen tool - and that is what I desire.

Frederick

Hi Frederick, you also might check out FreeCAD, it has a fasteners module:
https://wiki.freecad.org/Fasteners_Workbench

- Michael

Hi Michael,

I will check that out - I have heard of FreeCAD but a quick dive into a long while back made me really appreciate MoI.

I've got the "top-of-the-line" Alibre which has a ton of features - and I use Moi for most of my work.

Frederick