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ECAD Socket Skeleton

The skeleton inside a socket assembly. ECAD Board Fasteners reads the MOUNTING points from here when they are not on the socket itself.

The socket skeleton is the skeleton inside a socket assembly, when the socket is an assembly. ECAD Board Sockets ignores it. ECAD Board Fasteners prefers it for the mounting holes.

Which commands use it

Command

How it uses this model

ECAD Board Fasteners

Looks up the socket’s skeleton and reads the datum-point feature MOUNTING here first, then on the socket. Fastener placement uses the socket path plus this skeleton.

What must already exist

Required when Board Fasteners runs and MOUNTING is not on the socket itself:

  • A datum-point feature named MOUNTING, with one point per fastener hole. The first point (often named MNTG_1) is where the first fastener is assembled. The remaining points drive the pattern SCREWS_SOCKET_1.

If MOUNTING is on the socket itself, the skeleton is optional.

Optional

  • A skeleton component on the socket assembly. It can be missing when MOUNTING is on the socket.

Board Fasteners does not read FASTENER_MATE or MOUNTING_AXIS from the skeleton. Those are on the socket model.

What CadActive creates

Nothing. The commands only read this model.