Autodesk Fusion add-in · Windows and macOS

Assembly Hole SeriesBolted-Joint Holes Through Several Parts, for Autodesk Fusion (Fusion 360)

Every hole of a bolted joint, in every part, in one command.
Linked part files too, without opening them one by one.

Bolt holes repeat: the same counterbore, clearance hole and thread in part after part, all in line. When the parts are linked Fusion files, each one also has to be opened, sketched and saved. Assembly Hole Series does it from the assembly.

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Four M8 joints drilled by Hole Series in Fusion and cut in half with Section Analysis: a DIN 974-1 counterbore for a socket head, a DIN 974-2 counterbore for a hex head and washer, a 24 mm recess at the far face for a sunk nut, and a blind thread drilled the DIN 76 overhang deeper — Four M8 joints drilled by Hole Series in Fusion, cut in half with Fusion's Section Analysis. The bolt list names the screws, washers and nuts; place them with Fusion's Insert Fastener.

Pick the centres and the parts once: every part gets the hole its side needs, sized to ISO and DIN.
Linked part files are drilled and saved for you, and the assembly is updated.
Change the size or move a part: Edit Assembly Feature or Update All brings every hole back in line.

Key features

What Assembly Hole Series does

A bearing cover, a spacer block and a base plate drilled by Hole Series, cut with Fusion Section Analysis: DIN 974-1 counterbores in the cover, 9 mm clearance holes through the cover and the spacer, blind M8 threads in the base, and a bore cut through all three by Assembly Cut

1.Every part of the joint, one command

Pick the centres and the parts once. Each part gets the hole its side needs: a counterbore under the head, clearance in between, a thread or a sunk nut at the end.

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A bearing cover with four counterbored holes on a spacer block and a base plate, each tagged as its own Fusion file, saved as version 8 by Assembly Hole Series

2.Linked part files, none opened by hand

Parts kept in their own Fusion files, also inside linked subassemblies, get their holes from the assembly. Each file is saved as a new version and the assembly is updated.

See how →

The bearing cover with its M8 counterbores, and the same view after one edit to M10, with larger counterbores; three files saved again

3.Change once, every hole follows

Edit M8 to M10: the holes change in every part file and the Fusion fasteners in them are resized. Moved a part? Update All drills its holes in line again.

See how →

Two joints drilled by Hole Series, cut in half: a DIN 974-2 counterbore for a hex head and its washer, 24 by 7.3 mm, and a 24 mm recess at the far face for a sunk nut, 12.9 mm deep so the bolt end stays inside

4.Sizes from the standards

Choose the screw, the head and how the joint ends: clearance to ISO 273, counterbores to DIN 974, the thread as deep as the material needs (VDI 2230), and a bolt list with the lengths.

See how →

The flange face of a gear motor with its own four M5 threads, and from the same view the bracket in front of it, drilled by Hole Series with four 5.5 mm clearance holes in line with them

5.Bolt bought parts on their own holes

Pick the face of a motor, rail or bearing block: its holes become the centres and the size is read from them.

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Exploded bearing mount: the red cutter body beside the cover, the spacer block and the base plate, each with the bore the one Assembly Cut made

6.One cut through several parts

Model a cutter of any shape and pick the parts it passes: Assembly Cut cuts each one where the cutter crosses it, local or linked.

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Where the time goes

A bolted joint is quick to draw once. The files are what take the time.

The drive mount in jobs 1 to 3 below has 4 part files and 3 bolted joints: 16 holes in 3 of the files (the bought gear motor keeps its own threads) and 14 pieces of hardware. This is what it takes in Fusion by hand, and with Assembly Hole Series.

By hand

Open the 4 part files one by one: three to drill, the motor to measure its threads.
In each, sketch the hole positions, measured from the assembly into that part's own coordinates, and add 16 holes of the right type: clearance or M8 tapped, the bracket's in line with the motor's own threads.
Save every file, go back to the assembly, get the latest version of each one and check that every hole lines up.
Insert 14 pieces of hardware (screws, bolts, washers, nuts), work out each length from the plate thicknesses and joint them in place.
Look up each counterbore and thread depth, and count the hardware for purchasing.
Change a size or move a part later, and do it all again in every affected file.

With Assembly Hole Series

Run 3 Hole Series in the assembly, one per joint: pick the centres and the parts, choose the size, the screw and how the joint ends.
Assembly Hole Series drills the 16 holes in 3 files, sized to the standards, saves them and updates the assembly. The bought motor stays as it is.
Place the 14 pieces of hardware with Fusion's Insert Fastener; they fit the holes.
Change a joint later with Edit Assembly Feature: the files follow, and the fasteners in the holes are resized.
Move a part: Update All measures the joints again, drills the holes in line and saves the files.
Export the hardware with its lengths with Export Bolt List.

Each joint of the drive mount took about half a minute, most of it Fusion saving the part files to the cloud. You confirm and wait; there is nothing to open, sketch or measure.

Video

The whole workflow in 5 minutes

Every command on one linked assembly, from the first holes to the bolt list, with a caption for each step. The waits are shown 3 times faster.

Bolt holes through linked part files in Autodesk Fusion – Assembly Hole Series
One assembly with linked files two levels deep: a Hole Series, an edit from M8 tapped to M5 with a captive nut, an Assembly Cut, Update All after a move, and the bolt list as a PDF.

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Linked files and subassemblies

Linked part files, drilled and saved for you

Keep each part in its own Fusion file, linked into the assembly, and select the parts in the assembly as usual. Assembly Hole Series checks every file first, then adds the holes or the cut in each file, in its own coordinates, saves it as a new version and updates the links. A part can be linked straight into your assembly or sit inside a linked subassembly, two link levels down; the dialog lists each subassembly with the files under it, and one message at the end names every file saved.

A part used several times shares one definition, so the holes appear in every copy; Assembly Hole Series only does that when you tick All instances.

Read the linked-file rules

Example: a packaging line with an infeed module linked in

Packaging Line — your assembly, where you run Hole Series

Infeed Module — linked subassembly, its frame gets the tapped holes, saved second

Side Plate — linked part, gets the holes, saved first

Your assembly is saved last, with every link on the new versions.

Watch it: four joints through three linked files

Three plates, each its own Fusion file, linked into one assembly. The four centres are points in the clamp plate's own sketch. M8, socket heads sunk, nuts sunk at the far face; the tooltips show every choice to scale.

One OK: Assembly Hole Series checks the three files, adds the holes in each one, saves it, then saves the assembly. Opened on its own, the frame plate has the four nut counterbores with flat floors.

A real run, no sound. The job that changes and saves the three linked files took 41 seconds and is shown 8× faster; the rest is real time. The "references are out of date" notice is Fusion's own while the files are saved.

One command, every file

What Assembly Hole Series wrote into each part file

Each part of the drive mount in jobs 1 to 3 below is its own Fusion file, linked into the assembly. Opened on their own after its three joints, the files show their new holes: normal Fusion hole features at the right place in each file. The bought gear motor was not drilled: its own threads set where the bracket's holes go.

Base Plate part file opened on its own after the three joints. 4 × M8 tapped holes for the bracket and 2 × Ø11 clearance holes for the bearing block, from two different joints. — Base Plate v3
4 × M8 tapped holes for the bracket and 2 × Ø11 clearance holes for the bearing block, from two different joints.

Motor Bracket part file opened on its own after the three joints. 4 × Ø9 clearance holes in the foot, and 4 × Ø6.6 clearance holes in the upright in line with the four M6 threads of the motor. — Motor Bracket v3
4 × Ø9 clearance holes in the foot, and 4 × Ø6.6 clearance holes in the upright in line with the four M6 threads of the motor.

Gear Motor part file opened on its own after the three joints. Not changed. A bought motor keeps its holes: its flange face was picked as the centres, and only the bracket was drilled to its four M6 threads. — Gear Motor v1
Not changed. A bought motor keeps its holes: its flange face was picked as the centres, and only the bracket was drilled to its four M6 threads.

Bearing Block part file opened on its own after the three joints. 2 × Ø11 clearance holes for the M10 bolts that go through the base plate. — Bearing Block v2
2 × Ø11 clearance holes for the M10 bolts that go through the base plate.

The base plate and the bracket each belong to two joints, so each got two new versions.

Assembly Cut

Any shape, through several parts

Model the cutter as a body of any shape, straight or not: a pipe bent in 3D, a twisted duct, a keyhole passage, a bore with a recess. Pick the parts it passes through and run Assembly Cut. Each part is cut where the cutter crosses it, in its own component or linked file, and linked files are saved for you. The cutter is kept: change it and Update All cuts again. Intersect keeps only the common part instead.

A real run, no sound: one cutter through three plates that are separate linked files. The job that saves the three files took 51 seconds and is shown 8× faster; the rest is real time. At the end the cover plate opens with the cut in its own file.

Four red cutter bodies, a pipe bent in an S, a twisted rectangular duct, a keyhole passage and a stepped bore, passing through a blue cover plate, a yellow spacer and an aluminium base, shown pulled apart — Four cutters through three parts, pulled apart: a bent pipe, a twisted duct, a keyhole, a stepped bore.

The same three plates after Assembly Cut: the bent pipe leaves an oblique hole at a different place in each plate, the twisted duct a rectangle turned further in each plate, and every plate has the keyhole and the bore — After Assembly Cut: each part is cut where the cutter crosses it; the bent pipe and the twisted duct leave a different hole in every plate.

The dialog names the files it will change

Pick the cutter body and the parts it goes through. Before you press OK, the note lists every linked file that will get a new version. OK is the only step left: the message at the end names each file it saved.

The Assembly Cut dialog in Fusion with a red cylinder picked as the tool body and a linked plate as the target: its note, framed in orange, lists the files OK edits and saves, Motor Module and the Mount Plate inside it — The Assembly Cut dialog: the note (orange frame) lists the linked files OK will edit and save, a part inside a linked subassembly under its subassembly.

Next to Fusion's Insert Fastener, Edit in Place & other CAD

Fusion puts a bolt in a hole. This makes the holes.

Fusion's Insert Fastener places a screw, nut or washer from its library into a hole that is already modelled. Unlike SolidWorks Hole Series or Inventor Bolted Connection, native Fusion leaves the hole-making to you: sketching or projecting holes across parts with Edit in Place or Insert Derive, setting the right hole type on each side, and doing it all again when M8 becomes M10. Assembly Hole Series does that work.

Job	Fusion on its own	With Assembly Hole Series
Holes through every part of a joint	Fusion on its ownSketch and cut the hole in each part, with the right type for each side	With Assembly Hole SeriesOne Hole Series: clearance, tapped, counterbore, countersink, nut pocket or slot, each part on its side
Hole sizes	Fusion on its ownLook up the clearance, counterbore and thread depth for each screw and material in tables	With Assembly Hole SeriesFilled in from ISO 273, DIN 974, DIN 74 and VDI 2230 for the screw, the head, the end of the joint and the material
Screws, washers and nuts	Fusion on its ownInsert Fastener or McMaster-Carr into the existing holes: size from the hole, length from the list or Auto	With Assembly Hole SeriesInsert Fastener into holes made for that screw; the bolt list gives each screw its standard length
Rivet nuts, press-in nuts and heat-set inserts	Fusion on its ownLook up the maker's hole size and depth, then model each hole	With Assembly Hole SeriesPick the part number: the maker's hole and depth, checked against each part
Dowel pins	Fusion on its ownThe fastener library has bolts, screws, nuts, rivets and washers, no pins: model the pin and its reamed holes	With Assembly Hole SeriesReamed H7 holes, and ISO 8734 pins of a length that fits the joint in the bolt list
Change M8 to M10	Fusion on its ownChange each hole, then each fastener	With Assembly Hole SeriesOne edit: the holes change in every part, and the Fusion fasteners in them are resized
A motor or rail with its own holes	Fusion on its ownMeasure or project its hole pattern into your part	With Assembly Hole SeriesPick its face: its holes become the centres and the size is read from them
External linked part files (xrefs)	Fusion on its ownOpen, change and save each file, or use Edit in Place / Insert Derive one at a time	With Assembly Hole SeriesEach file is drilled and saved for you, also inside linked subassemblies
A cut through several parts	Fusion on its ownCut each part in turn, opening each linked file or using Edit in Place	With Assembly Hole SeriesOne Assembly Cut of any shape: every part is cut, linked files are saved, and the cut is redone on Update All
Ordering and the shop	Fusion on its ownParts lists and hole notes in the drawings	With Assembly Hole SeriesStraight from the assembly: a bolt list with standard lengths, order designations and search links, and a hole chart per part

Insert Fastener remains the tool for the hardware itself: place it in these holes. Its library also has rivets.

Coming from SolidWorks Hole Series or Inventor Bolted Connection?

In SolidWorks or Inventor	In Assembly Hole Series for Fusion 360
Hole Series (head recess, mid clearance, threaded or clearance end)	Hole Series, across local or linked part files
Slotted holes for adjustment	Slot travel in the first, last or every part of the series
Smart Fasteners / Bolted Connection Generator	Hole Series sized for the joint, Fusion's Insert Fastener for the hardware, the bolt list for the lengths
Assembly Cut propagating to part files	Assembly Cut, across local or linked part files
Favorite fastener templates & BOM rollup	Connection Library recipes and Export Bolt List

Step by step

Five jobs you would otherwise repeat in every part file

Jobs 1 to 3 follow the drive mount; jobs 4 and 5 use other assemblies. In each, the parts are separate Fusion files linked into the assembly, and every picture is a real run. Components of one design work the same way, without the file saves.

1.Holes through several parts, written into each part file

Pick the centres once in the assembly (sketch points, vertices or circular edges) and the parts, or let it find the parts on the hole axis. Assembly Hole Series drills the bracket and the base plate, each in its own file with the right hole for its side: clearance in the bracket, M8 tapped in the plate. Both files are saved and the assembly is updated.

2.Sized for the screw and the joint

Choose the screw, the head on the surface or sunk, and how the joint ends; the counterbore, the clearance and the thread depth fill themselves in from the standards. Place the screws with Fusion's Insert Fastener.

3.Change it once, every file follows

Open the joint again with Edit Assembly Feature and change M8 to M10. Assembly Hole Series makes the bracket holes bigger and re-taps the base plate for M10 where the holes are, saves both files, and the screws in the holes are resized.

Autodesk Fusion with the Hole Series dialog open beside an assembly of linked part files: the Hole Series panel on the Solid tab framed in orange, and the dialog with Hole centers, Target bodies with Auto-detect, Thread size M8, Clearance fit Normal, Screw Socket head ISO 4762, Head Sunk, End of the joint Tapped and Tapped part material Steel S235 — The Hole Series dialog in Fusion, from the Hole Series panel on the Solid tab (orange frame): pick the centres, let Auto-detect find the parts, then the size, the screw, the head and how the joint ends. The hole sizes fill themselves in.

4.A part moved? Update All brings the holes back in line

Another assembly: a sensor bracket bolted to a machine upright, both separate Fusion files. The screw centres come from the bracket itself, two layout points in its own file, so they move with it. The bracket is moved 40 mm up, and the holes no longer line up. Update All measures the joint again, drills the upright and the bracket at the new height and saves both files.

Not sure what moved? Audit Assembly checks every joint first and changes nothing. After the move above it marks the Hole Series [CHANGED]: the bracket, one of the drilled parts and the owner of both centre points, has moved. Update All is the next step.

Assembly Hole Series audit
Objects: 1 | Healthy: 0 | Changed: 1 | Errors: 0 | Orphans: 0

[CHANGED] Hole Series 1
- INFO: Target 1 occurrence has moved.
- INFO: Placement 1 occurrence has moved.
- INFO: Placement 2 occurrence has moved.

The Audit Assembly report after the bracket moved.

5.Need more holes later? Replace the centres

A cover screwed onto a gear housing, again two separate Fusion files, with four M8 screws at the corners. In Edit Assembly Feature, Replace hole centers takes the complete new set: the four corners and two points in the middle of the long sides. Assembly Hole Series drills the cover and taps the housing for all six and saves both files.

The Gear Housing part file opened on its own after Replace hole centers: six tapped holes around its opening, and a section through one showing the blind M8 thread, 12 mm of thread drilled 18.2 mm — Gear Housing opened on its own, v3: six blind M8 threads after one edit.

Mount to existing holes

Bolt a motor or a rail on the holes it already has

A bought part comes with its holes: the threads in a motor flange, the counterbored holes of a linear rail or a bearing block. Pick the face of that part that sits on your parts as the hole centres. Assembly Hole Series finds every round hole on it, reads the size from the Fusion thread or the diameter, and drills the matching holes in your parts. The bought part keeps its holes as they are.

A gear motor and its bracket cut through two of the four holes with Fusion Section Analysis: the bracket's 5.5 mm clearance holes in line with the motor's own M5 threads — The motor's flange face picked: its four M5 threads became the centres. Only the bracket is drilled, 5.5 mm clearance; the motor keeps its holes.

Clearance holes work the other way round

A part with threads takes the screws from your side: your parts get clearance holes, and the screws end in its threads, no deeper than the threads go. A part with clearance holes, like a linear rail or a bearing block, takes the screw heads: your plate is tapped or gets nuts underneath.

✓With Keep mounting part, on by default, the bought part is not drilled, also on Edit and Update All.
✓A screw that passes the part first starts on the floor of its counterbore: the thread below and the bolt list's length count the part's thickness.
✓The dialog says how it read the holes. If the reading is wrong, for example 6 mm holes for M5 screws taken as M6 threads, correct it before OK.

Sizes from the standards

Holes made for the screw you choose

Choose the screw, whether its head sits on the surface or is sunk, and how the joint ends: a nut, a sunk nut, a captive nut, a thread or nothing. Every size fills itself in from the standards; open Standard sizes only to change one. Then place the screws with Fusion's Insert Fastener: they fit the holes, and the bolt list gives their lengths.

The hole	Standard	M8, for example
Clearance hole: Close, Normal, Loose	ISO 273	8.4, 9 or 10 mm
Counterbore for a socket or low head	DIN 974-1	15 mm wide, 8.6 mm deep (5.6 mm for a DIN 7984 low head)
Counterbore for a hex head or a sunk nut, with room for a socket wrench	DIN 974-2	24 mm wide; a hex head with its washer 7.3 mm deep, a nut with its washer at least 8.8 mm, deeper when the bolt end would stand out
Countersink for ISO 10642	DIN 74 form F, 90°	18.3 mm
Tap drill	ISO 2306	6.8 mm
Thread in the tapped part	VDI 2230, by material, plus 2 pitches	10.5 mm in S235 steel, 13.7 mm in aluminium
Drill depth past the thread	DIN 76-1	6.2 mm

A tapped hole as deep as it needs

In a thick part the thread is blind: the shortest standard screw that reaches the minimum engagement for the part's material sets the thread, drilled the DIN 76-1 overhang deeper. M6 under a 10 mm part in S235: an M6 × 20 screw, 10 mm of thread, drilled 15.1 mm.

Checked before it goes wrong

A counterbore deeper than its part is refused before OK. A countersink or a sunk nut as deep as its part, and a part tapped through that holds less thread than the screw needs, are named after OK.

Metric, fine and UNC/UNF

Metric sizes with fine pitches from M8x1 to M24x2, and fourteen UNC/UNF sizes from #6 to 1/2 inch with 82° countersinks. Tapped holes use the exact Fusion thread.

Holes for rivet nuts, press-in nuts and heat-set inserts

No maker's catalogue to look up: pick the part number under Tail insert and the last part gets the hole its maker specifies: PEM self-clinching nuts (steel and stainless, M2.5 to M8), Böllhoff RIVKLE blind rivet nuts (M3 to M14, one entry per grip range) and PEM heat-set inserts for plastic and 3D-printed parts (M2 to M6, a blind hole at the maker's depth). The sheet thickness, a rivet nut's grip range and an insert's depth are checked before anything is drilled.

Adjustment slots where a part has to move

Set Slot travel and the round holes become slots as wide as the hole. Choose the part under the head, the last part or all of them; the others keep round holes. Here a motor plate gets 14 mm of travel, for example to tension a belt, and the frame under it is tapped M6. Turn on a washer under the head and the bolt list counts one for each slot.

Red motor plate with four slots for 14 mm of travel on an aluminium frame, the frame tapped M6 under each slot — Slot travel 14 mm: four slots in the motor plate, and an M6 thread in the frame under each one.

Read the joint choices and every table

Export Bolt List

A bolt list you can order from

One export lists every screw, washer, nut and pin the joints are made for: a set per hole, each screw at the shortest standard length for the parts it passes, a through bolt long enough for its nut and two pitches past it, a tapped screw long enough for the thread its material needs. Each row names the part the way suppliers list it, such as ISO 4762 M8 × 25, with a link that searches for it.

✓CSV for spreadsheets and purchasing.
✓A self-contained HTML page with an A4 print layout.
✓A PDF on A4 pages, ready to print or send: the table head repeats on each page and the search links can be clicked.
✓Your company grades, your supplier's search, and the supplier, part number and description you mapped, with missing ones shown.

Open sample BOM Open PDF Download CSV

The sample is the bolt list of the drive mount above, exported as it is: 14 items in five rows from its three Hole Series. Grades and suppliers are not filled in for you, and the list has no prices.

The printable bolt list of the drive mount: M6 x 20, M8 x 25 and M10 x 50 socket screws, M10 washers and nuts, each with its order designation and a search link — The drive mount's bolt list as the add-in exported it: order designation and a search link on every row.

A hole chart per part for the shop

The same command writes a hole chart. For every part a Hole Series drilled, it lists each hole at its entry point in that part's own coordinates, with the axis, diameter or thread, tap drill, slot, counterbore or countersink and depth, as CSV, a printable page or a PDF.

✓A part used several times is charted once.
✓Holes made by other Fusion features are not listed.
✓It is a separate export, not a hole table on a Fusion drawing.

Open the drive mount's hole chart as PDF

Printable hole chart of the drive mount: the base plate with four M8x1.25 threads and two 11 mm holes, the bearing block with two 11 mm holes and the motor bracket with eight clearance holes, each with X, Y, Z, axis, tap drill and depth — The drive mount's hole chart: positions in each part's own coordinates, threads with their tap drill.

Also exported: recipes and the catalogue

Connection recipes: JSON

Export your saved joints (hole size, screw, head and end) and import them on another computer, so the whole team starts from the same connections. Imports are checked before they replace anything.

Company catalogue: JSON

Export the supplier part numbers you mapped, your grades and your supplier's search, and import them elsewhere. The bolt list uses them on its next export.

Eight commands

In the Solid tab, next to Assemble

Hole Series and Assembly Cut sit on the ribbon; the rest are in the Hole Series panel menu.

Hole Series

The holes of a bolted joint through every selected part: choose the screw, its head on the surface or sunk, and the end: a nut, a sunk nut, a captive nut, a thread or nothing. Sizes from ISO 273, DIN 974, DIN 74 and VDI 2230. Also slots, H7 dowel and shoulder screw holes, and the holes of PEM nuts, RIVKLE rivet nuts and heat-set inserts. Pick a motor or rail face to use its holes.

Edit Assembly Feature

Change a saved joint: size, screw, head, end, hole positions or the cutter of an Assembly Cut. Linked files are updated again for you, and the Fusion fasteners in the holes are resized.

Update All

Rebuild every managed joint in order, holes then cuts, after parts moved or changed shape.

Connection Library and Batch Change

Twelve ready recipes and your own. Change the size of selected connections together, for example M5 to M8.

Export Bolt List

The screws at their standard lengths, the washers and nuts each joint takes, counted, each row with its order designation and a search link, as CSV or a printable A4 page. Also a hole chart per part.

Assembly Cut

One Cut or Intersect through several parts, local or linked, such as a cable passage, kept editable.

Audit Assembly

Check every managed joint before you release drawings: missing or changed geometry and references.

About Assembly Hole Series

Help, version, license status and support.

Every joint stays editable

The assembly keeps each joint as one managed object: its centres, parts, screw and sizes. Edit Assembly Feature opens it again, under the same rules as Hole Series.

Reuse a joint, change many at once

Start a Hole Series from one of twelve recipes (tapped fixtures, through bolts, a captive nut, a flush panel, UNC/UNF examples, a PEM mounting hole) or from your own saved joint. To change a size across a design, filter the connections by their current size, select them and preview the change before OK. On a fixture built from components of one design, for example, one Batch Change turns four M5 joints into M8: holes, counterbores and threads.

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Try it on your next bolted assembly

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3. Run your first Hole Series. Sign in to Fusion with the same Autodesk account. If the license does not show yet, open About Assembly Hole Series and click Check license now.

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The user guide covers each command, the linked-file rules, the standards behind every size and what to do if a job stops.

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Before you start

Assembly Hole Series FAQ

Fusion already has Insert Fastener. Why would I need this?

Insert Fastener places library fasteners in holes that are already there. Assembly Hole Series makes those holes: the matching hole in every part of the joint, sized to the standards for the screw and the way the joint ends, also in separate linked part files, like a SolidWorks Hole Series or an Inventor Bolted Connection. Place the screws with Insert Fastener: Auto-detect never drills them, and when you change the holes, the fasteners in them are resized with the holes. The bolt list counts the hardware every joint needs.

Do I need linked part files?

No. The parts can be components of one design; then there are no files to save. Linked part files are where it saves the most time.

Are the holes real Fusion features?

Yes. Each part file gets ordinary Fusion hole features in its own timeline, at the right place in its own coordinates. Fusion drawings, CAM and other tools see normal holes. Where a hole enters a round tube or another curved face, the part gets a plain drilled cut instead.

Does it run on macOS?

Yes. The build runs in Autodesk Fusion on Windows and macOS, and both builds are published for each release. One subscription unlocks both.

Supported scope

Current limitations

Check these against your file structure before you start.

A Hybrid design

Create, Edit and Update run in a Hybrid design with Capture Design History; document types are not converted for you.

Linked structures

Parts linked directly or inside a linked subassembly, two link levels down. Configured, derived, read-only and out-of-date parts are refused before any file changes, and so is a nested part reached through two subassemblies.

Linked edits

A linked joint keeps its set of part files; to add or remove one, delete and create the joint again. Recipes, Batch Change and slots work on local components only.

Cloud saves are one by one

Every file is checked before the first one changes, then they are saved one after another. If a later file fails, the versions already saved stay and the message lists them; there is no rollback of several files together.