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In Nuts and Bolts, award-winning Shard engineer and broadcaster Roma Agrawal deconstructs our most complex feats of engineering into seven fundamental inventions: the nail, spring, wheel, lens, magnet, string and pump. Each of these objects is itself a wonder of design, the result of many iterations and refinements. Together, they have enabled humanity to see the invisible, build the spectacular, communicate across vast distances, and even escape our planet.
Tracing the surprising journeys of each invention through the millennia, Roma reveals how handmade Roman nails led to modern skyscrapers, how the potter's wheel enabled space exploration, and how humble lenses helped her conceive a child against the odds.
She invites us to marvel at these small but perfectly formed inventions, sharing the stories of the remarkable, and often unknown, scientists and engineers who made them possible. The nuts and bolts that make up our world may be tiny, and are often hidden, but they've changed our lives in dramatic ways.
Roma Agrawal is an engineer, author and presenter who is best known for working on the design of The Shard, Western Europe's tallest tower. She studied engineering at Imperial College London and physics at the University of Oxford. Roma has given talks to thousands at universities, schools and organisations around the world, including TEDx.
She has also presented numerous TV shows for the BBC , Channel 4 and Discovery, and hosts her own podcast, Building Stories. Her first book, BUILT (2018) won an AAAS science book award and has been translated into eight languages. Roma is passionate about promoting engineering and technical careers to young people, particularly those from minoritized groups, and has won international awards for her technical prowess and for her advocacy for the profession, including the prestigious Royal Academy of Engineering's Rooke Award. She was appointed an MBE in 2018 for services to engineering.
Hi! I guess the standard libraries required in this workflow are not included. Close all files. Go to Get Started -> Projects -> click on Configure CC Library (the button on the right at the bottom) -> make sure DIN standard is included.
when I open your bolt, it seems bolt has not been authorized. Components/part used in AddIns like Bolted Connection / Frame Generator / Tube & Pipe have to authorized. So you need to authorize our bolt.
This bolt is a custom bolt. I want to use this custom bolt in the bolted connection. But then I can't use the standard nuts in the bolted connection like DIN 934 for example. So I thought I did something wrong with the publishing of the bolt.
One half of the equation was down to me. I had the concept clear in my mind, so all I needed to do was give myself enough space in the diary to chuck everything down on screen, tidy it up, lay it out reasonably, and get it out.
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ASTM's fastener standards are instrumental in specifying, testing, and evaluating the material, dimensional, mechanical, and metallurgical properties of the various forms of hardware fasteners. These fasteners are used to mechanically join or affix other hardware objects together, and come in many forms which include rivets, nuts, bolts, studs, screws, washers, eyebolts, nails, and threaded fasteners. These fastener standards allow hardware product manufacturers, as well as the end-users of such products, to examine and assess fasteners to ensure their strength and quality towards safe utilization.
The Design Library is in the task pane and has a link to the SolidWorks Toolbox which is included with most versions of SolidWorks. The design library is filled with common components used in mechanical design and that are commonly sold by suppliers. The most common use of the design library is for fasteners such as screws, bolts, nuts, set screws, washers, etc.
SolidWorks introduced a tool called Smart Fasteners years ago to try to make the fastener specification process faster, but it still holds many bugs. It is only best to use this tool when adding more than a dozen fasteners.
To add fasteners from the SolidWorks toolbox, open the task pane, find the fastener you want to add, and drag and drop it where you want it. Automatic mates will be added if you select a compatible edge. Once you drop the fastener, you can specify all the type settings. Once confirmed, you can add more of the same type of fastener. This feature is great for common fasteners, but if you need specialty fasteners, use models from a common supplier website such as McMaster-Carr.
In this exercise, you will add a few of the many fasteners that are contained within CAE1000. The rest you will add in the upcoming tutorial. To add the fasteners, you will load the design library and drag components into place. You may also need to add applicable mates to constrain the fasteners to the assembly according to design intent.
The design library contains many default standard parts that can be used in mechanical design in SolidWorks. You can also add your own standard parts to the design library. See SolidWorks Help: Design Library.
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