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If you are using SOLIDWORKS Standard and you have limited variant for tool box components such as nut, bolts, washers, accessories than there is an alternate method to use SolidWorks Toolbox Smart Fasteners to quickly add fasteners to your assembly.
To add fasteners first insert the required fastener part, then use a SolidWorks feature driven pattern which utilizes a pattern feature of an existing part located in your assembly.

Smart Fasteners

Automatically adds fasteners to your assembly if there is a hole, hole series, or pattern of holes, that is sized to accept standard hardware sizes.

It uses the SolidWorks Toolbox library of fasteners, which has a large variety of ANSI Inch, Metric, ISO, Customizable and other standard hardware.

Smart Fasteners follows the Files options in the SolidWorks Toolbox – User Settings dialog box to determine if fasteners are added to an assembly as a configuration of an existing part or as a copy of an existing par.

Feature Driven Pattern

You can create a pattern of components based on an existing pattern
It is a very useful tool that will allow you to repeat a certain part depending a feature (pattern).
Example: You have a Plate with a threaded hole circular pattern on top surface of it and you want to add fasteners to all of them.

Then you only have to place one fasteners and use the feature driven pattern and you’ll have all your screws!

Smart Fasteners adds fasteners to available hole features in assemblies, the holes can be assembly or part features. 

You can add fasteners to specific holes or patterns, faces or components, or to all available holes. 

Smart Fasteners is feature-based. Fasteners are placed in Hole Wizard holes, simple holes, and cylindrical cut features.

Smart Fasteners does not recognize holes in derived or imported bodies.

If you extrude a sketch of a rectangle with a circle in it as a base feature, Smart Fasteners does not recognize the inside of the boss as a hole, because the cylinder is not a separate feature.

Mate References

A mate reference is used to pre-define a mating references for a part or assembly, when dragging a part or sub-assembly into an assembly with a similarly named mate reference, the component is automatically mated.

Mate references specify one or more entities of a component to use for automatic mating.

When you drag a component with a mate reference into an assembly, the SolidWorks software tries to find other combinations of the same mate reference name and mate type. If the name is the same, but the type does not match, the software does not add the mate

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Aatmling Narayanpure

CEO| CAD Infield Technologies

Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert & CAE Professional