SitePlan: Bolt Review

Bolt Review (and related tools in Modeling )

Tool summary :

Lets your review the settings of the one or multiple bolts that you select.
To invoke Bolt Review :
- Click the icon (shown above)
- Or choose Model > Bolts > Review .
- Or use a keyboard shortcut .
- How to invoke related tools is explained when those tools are explained.
This help page discusses Bolt Review and alternatives to it:
- To edit one bolt (with change options for other bolts)
  - Method 1: Double-click
  - Method 2: " Edit Other " on the context menu
- Multi-edit (no change options, some methods work best with selection filtering)
  - Method 3: Use the Model Tree (can also be used for multi-edit)
  - Method 4: Edit Bolt -- in-tool selection (filter independent)
  - Method 5: Edit Bolt -- preselection (selection filtering gives best results)
- Important: Special considerations

Also see :

Modeling (where Bolt Review for 3D bolts is a tool)
3D bolts
Bolt Edit window (opened with Bolt Review )

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To review one bolt :

These are four methods that you can use to open the Bolt Edit window.

Method 1: Double-click ( selection filter = ' Bolts ' or ' Legacy Connection Filter ')

Hover a bolt with your mouse pointer (

) until the bolt is highlighted, then double-click .

When the selection filter is set to ' Default ' and the bolt is a connection bolt, double-click reviews the connection component , not the bolt. To double-click review a connection bolt, you must set the selection filter to ' Bolts ' or ' Legacy Selection Filter '. Double-click using the ' Default ' filter can only be used review a user-added bolt, not a connection bolt.

Highlighting occurs when User Options > the " Highlighting " tab > " Highlight surfaces " is checked ( ). The highlighting indicates that the bolt can be selected (one click) or reviewed ( double-click ). In this example, User Options > the " Highlighting " tab > " Show hidden lines in 3D wire frames " is not checked ( ).

Method 2: " Review Other " on the context menu ( selection filter = ' Default ').

Hover a bolt with your mouse pointer (

), then right-click and choose ' Review Other ' on the context menu . On the menu, select the bolt that you want.

" Review Other " is an excellent way to review a connection bolt when the selection filter is ' Default '.

When you hover the listing of a bolt, hole or material on the " Review Other " menu, the actual bolt, hole or material is highlighted in the model.

In the above example, " Field bolt 5 on B_7 [7] " is listed with the beam because the setup option " Field bolts listed on which members " is set to ' Supported '. If that same setup option was set to ' Supporting ', bolt 5 would be listed on the supporting member (C_1). " [7] " and " [1] " are member numbers .

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Multi-Review (various methods) :

Method 3: Use the Model Tree (can also be used to preselect for Bolt Review )

In the Model Tree , double-click the listing of the bolt that you want to review. The bolt in this example is highlighted in the model since its listing is selected in the Model Tree .

To select multiple bolts in the Model Tree , hold down Ctrl to select them, then right-click ( Menu ) and choose " Review " (or invoke Review Bolt s).

As you hover the listing of an item in the Model Tree , that item is highlighted in the model. When you select an item in the Model Tree , that item is selected in the model.

Method 4: Review Bolt s, in-tool selection (filter independent).

	1 . Invoke Review Bolt .
	2 . Select (left-click) a bolt. Optionally hold down Shift to select additional bolts. Press the `Enter` key (or right-click and choose " OK " on the menu ). Note: Review Bolt lets you select one bolt only. Even with the selection filter set to ' Material ', you can only select a bolt.

You can reverse step 1 and step 2. The documentation refers to this as "preselection." Click here for more information.

The advantage of in-tool selection is that you don't have to mess with the selection filter . Filtering for bolts is built-in to Bolt Review .

Method 5 : Bolt Review , preselection

Before selecting: Set the selection filter to ' Bolts ' or ' Legacy Selection Filter ' if you want to include connection bolts in your selection. If you only include user-added bolts, you can use the ' Default ' filter to select those bolts.
	1 . Select (left-click) a bolt. Hold down the `Shift` key to Select+ additional bolts. Press the `Enter` key (or right-click and choose " OK " on the menu ).
	2 . Invoke Bolt Review .

In step 1, instead of clicking on bolts, you can draw an area box .

In step 1, if you select items other than bolts (for example, materials), those items will be removed from the selection when Bolt Review is invoked in step 2.

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Special considerations :

In order to select a bolt for review, the member associated with the bolt must be displayed in one of the three solid forms .
You also need to Zoom In sufficiently close so that you can see the bolt. The display of " Bolts " needs to be turned on ( ) in the Display Options window.
The above methods for reviewing bolts let you review bolts added automatically in a full-featured SDS2 program as well as bolts added manually in such a program. The former are referred to as connection bolts; the latter are user-added bolts.