Check Bolt Command

Backs the selected bolt out from its hole and redraws it so that you can visually check its length, number of washers, etc.
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1 . Pre-select a bolt to enable the Bolts contextual page and click the Bolt Check icon found in the Modify section. Skip step 2.

Alternative : Invoke Check Bolt using the Find Tool by searching the command name and clicking the Bolt Check icon which is pictured above. Proceed to step 2.

2 . In Select Items mode, left-click ( Select ) the bolt you want to check. You may want to set the selection filter to ' Bolts '

3 . The view redraws to show the bolt backed out of the connection and the washers and nut separated (an exploded view). A Done mouse binding becomes active.

3a : Left-click ( Done ) to have the bolt go back to looking as it normally does in a view.

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