Create a Hole Wizard pattern automatically

Creating a Hole Wizard pattern when adding a new fastener is almost identical to adding a single fastener:

1. Open an assembly
2. Click Add Fastener in the Lightning toolbar
3. Select a type, size and material
4. Select a washer type or select None
5. Drag the fastener file in your assembly from the Create Pattern button.

Pattern the added fastener automatically

After you drag the file into your assembly (and we optionally add a washer), we add a Pattern Driven Component Pattern.

For this to work, you need to drag the file onto a hole made by the Hole Wizard and the file needs to snap in place with Mate References.

If the holes in your part are created by a Cut Extrude feature, we can also add a bolt to every hole in a Cut-Extrude, but we don’t create a pattern feature.

How to select the correct seed position hole

Lightning makes it easy to create the perfect component pattern. Follow these steps:

1. Preselect a hole that belongs to a Hole Wizard feature.
2. Click Add Fastener
3. We now change the selection. We select the hole that belongs to the seed position.
4. Drag your fastener from the Create Pattern button onto the hole that we selected.
5. We create the perfect pattern for you.