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ECAD Socket Fastener

The screw ECAD Board Fasteners assembles at each socket mounting hole. It needs FASTENER_AXIS and FASTENER_MATE.

The socket fastener is the screw ECAD Board Fasteners loads and assembles at each socket mounting hole. ECAD Board Sockets does not use fasteners.

You do not pick the fastener in the dialog. CadActive loads it from the session or from the Creo search path, choosing a length from the board thickness.

What must already exist

  • The model must be a part. Assemblies are ignored.

  • An axis datum. The name comes from the Hardware setting Fastener Axis Datum Name. The default is FASTENER_AXIS.

  • A plane datum. The name comes from the Hardware setting Fastener Plane Datum Name. The default is FASTENER_MATE.

Both datums are found by geometry name, not only by feature name.

Optional

  • Datum plane FRONT. Together with ASM_RIGHT on the EcadBoardAssembly, it locks rotation. Without it, the fastener can spin about its axis.

  • The fastener part CadActive computes from board thickness must be retrievable in the session or on the search path. If that file is missing, the command tries the other lengths in the same family.

What CadActive creates

Board Fasteners does not edit the fastener file. It assembles the fastener into the EcadBoardAssembly and patterns it:

Feature

Role

SCREWS_SOCKET_1

Pattern by point over the socket MOUNTING points

SCREWS_SOCKET

Second pattern across the socket sites (SOCKET_SITE_POINTS / SOCKETS)

Constraints on the first fastener:

  1. Point on line — the socket’s first MOUNTING point lies on FASTENER_AXIS.

  2. Mate — the fastener plane FASTENER_MATE to the socket plane FASTENER_MATE.

  3. Orient — the fastener plane FRONT to the EcadBoardAssembly plane ASM_RIGHT, when both exist.