Bolt patterns can be inserted into any required plane and depend on the current coordinate system.
Bolts
Bolt, anchor, hole and shear stud patterns create connections between individual Advance objects, for example beam-plate or plate-plate. The respective connection elements and properties are stored and managed by Advance Steel.
Holes are created automatically when bolts are inserted. There is an intelligent link between bolts and holes, so that bolts automatically create the right holes, e.g. a countersunk bolt automatically creates a countersunk hole with the corresponding parameters.
- If a bolt pattern is deleted the hole pattern is also deleted.
- The hole properties can be viewed from their dialog box properties, but cannot be changed by the user as they are controlled by the bolt itself.
Holes
Hole patterns can be inserted without bolts with the following options: round holes, slotted holes, countersunk holes, blind holes, threaded holes and punch marks.
Holes are, like process features, dependent objects and are displayed in green in the model. As with features, they are only visible when the object in which they are inserted, is displayed using the Features or Exact presentation type. To address or change hole objects (with the Advance Properties command) or to delete them, they must be visible.
Shear studs
Shear studs can be inserted in the model exactly the same way (Cyan) as bolts, with the same options for displaying and editing. Holes are dependent on their reference object regarding their representation type.
In the center of the stud shear-pattern (= point of intersection of the rectangle's diagonals) a weld point is inserted. It connects the studs with the beam or plate and must not be deleted.
Bolt, hole, anchor patterns and shear studs have a Behavior property tab that describes if and how the element numbers are part of the structured BOM.
Bolts and shear studs are created in the color cyan (by default) as individual Advance Steel elements and can be modified according to your preferences. Changes in the bolt pattern will also automatically update the holes.
All four connection types, bolt patterns, anchor patterns, hole patterns and shear studs are inserted with the same commands. A button on the Switch panel of the Objects tab allows switching between the object type.
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The tools for creating bolt hole patterns and shear studs can be found in the Objects tab, Connection objects panel.