topic Re: Inventor 2025 Bolt Connection With Empty List or hardware in Inventor Forum

Inventor 2025 Bolt Connection With Empty List or hardware

snguyenSWVMS — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 11:53:31 GMT

Hi All

I need help to fix this problem with bolt connection with an empty list hardware.

I found this same problem in Autodesk with the solution but I try those step and mine is not working yet.

I am using the bolt connection since it came out with Inventor and this is the 1st time I ran in this problem.

The bolt connection has no hardware and if I try to use the manual way goes thru the Content Center and all the hardware there and I can place them in the assembly. If I use the AutoDrop then after I selected the hole it has the bolt connection feature so I use that and it pop up the bolt connection and everything work from there, I can also save the set of bolt in the template.

But if I use the bolt connection then I see just an empty list.

Any idea please help me out.

Thanks

Re: Inventor 2025 Bolt Connection With Empty List or hardware

kacper.suchomski — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:38:19 GMT

I vaguely remember that reselecting the directory sometimes helps.

But you'll probably get better help if you provide the exact version and update of your Inventor.

Re: Inventor 2025 Bolt Connection With Empty List or hardware

snguyenSWVMS — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 19:59:00 GMT

Kacper,

I think I know what I did wrong here but still working on the fix way.

After vault console installed (ADMS 2026) I attached all the (11) standard content library to vault console, then from there I created a content library read & write then I use content editor in Inventor to copy each family of hardware or anything I need for my read & write library. Because manually copy I think I didn't copy everything.

So I am still looking the faster way to change the Autodesk content library to new custom content read & write library.

I post the question on Vault Forum

Thanks