Bolted Connection Angle Tolerance

[shawn.payne]

Is this level of precision really necessary? Can we knock off a half dozen decimal places? This makes bolted connections not work. 

[Anonymous]

The tool Bolted connection is a great tool.

But always I have the problem to use it by connection to steel profiles.

Because the face is not flat.

[mgagliardi-delta-elevator]

It gets worse, the beveled washers in the content center don't have the same angle as the structural steel shapes. In reality, that isn't a problem, but in inventor it means no constraints ever work.

[asiu]

@shawn.payne

Sorry, previous comment was not addressing your concern.

[metamere]

Yeah, it should work the same way for bolt circle alignment, maybe with a precision tolerance option.  If one part's bolt circle is created with a circular pattern, and the other is created with a set of x-y coordinates rounded to three decimal places, they should be able to be lined up with a centerline coincidence constraint and a hole to hole axis coincidence constraint.  As it is, you have to do an angular constraint, since the holes are off by something like .0002" and don't "line up".

[B_Bevelander]

The idea is to be able to select slanted termination plane during the creation of a bolted connection.

I'm currently working on a situation where i have a 5mm thick plate that i need to fasten to a DIN1026-1 U120, yet the Bolted Connection feature won't allow me to select the inside flange of the the U120, which is slanted.

Even though the content center has fasteners for situations like this (see DIN 434), they don't appear in the selection when working on Bolted Connections.

[v.krempel]

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