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DKDave Krum19/06/2014

Good morning guys,

I have a small project requiring the use of threaded rod/bar for my assembly.  We use alot of this here with fabricated assemblies for bolting steel together.  What I normally do is just extrude a circle off a face within the part and put cosmetics threads on it for illustration but then its in with the part itself and cannot be moved around like a standard bolt can be with mating etc in the assembly.

I'm wondering if there is a library part out there for this which will allow me (for future projects) to simply choose the length, diameter/thread size like you normally would for a bolt in the design library.  I don't see anything in there short of modifying a bolt by cutting the head off it and saving it as a new library part.  I haven't practiced with putting threads on parts yet, so making this part from scratch with threads may not be the best way for me to get what I need if there is already something online that I can just download.  Just curious.  Thanks in advance.