How to select holes in a Bolted Connection?

This might be a silly question to ask because it sounds so obvious. Not so if you read this newsgroup post.

There seems to be a flaw in the selection mechanism when selecting cylindrical faces for a bolted connection that gets placed with the concentric option.

Figure 1: bolted connection with the concentric option

When you select the edge of your first hole, everything is honky dory. However when you select the face of the first hole, the bolts on subsequent selected holes will fail to get generated although the preview makes you believe otherwise.
Note that the first selection is the crucial one and determines the outcome on the other holes.
Edge selection or face selection is not important on the other holes, it all depends what you have selected on your first hole.

The best I can explain it is by showing you some bitmaps.
Here is the wrong way of doing things.

Selecting the first hole by its face (the circular reference pick is shown in yellow)	Result after selecting multiple holes in the same command

 

Here is the right way.

Selecting the first hole on the edge	Result after selecting multiple holes in the same command

While our developers are looking to fix this, hopefully this spares you some headaches. Thanks to Rajeesh for reporting this.

Cheers

Bob

Comments

[Chris]

You will notice, also, as if you select the face of the hole there is no option to have the bolted connection follow any pattern associated with that hole. Selecting the edge, as shown above, you will see a check box appear that says "Follow Pattern". IV Pro 2011.

[Bob]

Thanks Chris for the clarification.
Bob

[Johan]

Great Tips every day from the support team

nice thats comments works....

[Bob]

Thanks for your nice comment Johan. We are trying are best to post regularly. The comments seem to behave less erratically than in the past. So let's hope and pray that it stays that way because the comments basically are beyond my control.
Bob