PEM is a brand of fasteners produced for sheet metal applications by Penn Engineering. Many of these fasteners are designed to be inserted into a sheet metal part and become a “self clinching” semi-permanent insert in the sheet metal part.
When you add these fasteners to a sheet metal part, they effectively make the part an assembly and allow the fasteners to be called out in a bill of materials (BOM). Inventor supports the use of these special fasteners within an assembly through the Bolted Connection Component Generator or through placement from the Content Center Navigation.
The PEM category in Content Center provides four families of components: Nuts, Standoffs, Studs, and Other. Place these sheet metal fasteners into your assembly using the same steps for placing other Content Center components.
The bolted connection generator supports the use of self-clinching nuts in bolted connections involving sheet metal components.
On the ribbon, click Assemble tab Component panel
Place from Content Center .
Under the PEM category, navigate to a sheet metal fastener family.
Select a component by performing one of the following:
Select the appropriate class and size of component to place.
Click OK to return to your assembly with the selected component attached to your cursor.
Select a location within your assembly and click to place the sheet metal fastener.