About Working with Creo Intelligent Fastener (IFX)
Use Creo Intelligent Fastener to assemble screw or dowel pin fasteners. Some of the functionality described in the Creo Intelligent Fastener help requires a Creo Intelligent Fastener paid license. The paid license provides additional functionality to the Creo Intelligent Fastener tools that are included in Creo Parametric.
With an assembly open in Creo Parametric click Tools and then click commands in the Intelligent Fastener group as described below:
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Screw >
Assemble on reference to assemble a screw fastener on an existing point or axis.
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Screw >
Assemble by mouse click to assemble a screw fastener on the selected position.
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Dowel Pin >
Assemble on reference to assemble a dowel pin fastener on an existing point or axis.
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Dowel Pin >
Assemble by mouse click to assemble a dowel pin fastener on the selected position.
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Reassemble to reassemble an existing screw or dowel pin fastener.
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Redefine to edit the definition of a screw or dowel pin fastener.
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Delete to delete a screw or dowel pin fastener.
• Intelligent Fastener > Check Screw Fasteners to check screw fasteners for screw or thread length.
• Intelligent Fastener > Update holes to align the holes to the new position of the fasteners.
• Intelligent Fastener > Suppress or Intelligent Fastener > Resume to change the display mode of the fasteners.
• Intelligent Fastener > Instance Creator > Instance Creator to create all instances of Creo Intelligent Fastener library components.
• Intelligent Fastener > Instance Creator > Get ID to get the ID from an axis or surface.
• Intelligent Fastener >
Convert Library to convert the fastener library to the new file structure.
• Intelligent Fastener >
Options to set or change the
Creo Intelligent Fastener configuration options.
• Intelligent Fastener > About Intelligent Fastener to get information about Creo Intelligent Fastener.