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Comment: New standards for fasteners and hardware

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Avoid saving any parts in the 10xxx (i.e. 10000-10999) range in the part and drawing number registry. These part numbers are exclusively for fasteners.are exclusively for fasteners. 

Fasteners/Hardware

Fasteners should ONLY be in \Deveoplment\Fasteners. Fasteners are tracked in the part registry, and EXCLUSIVELY USE part numbers MS10xxx (i.e. MS10000 to MS10999)  ASSEM-ShortDescription

Bolts are to be named MS10xxx-TypeBoltSizeThreadxLength (i.e. MS10xxx-HexBoltM8Cx15, MS10xxx-CarriageBoltM4Fx5, where C is Coarse thread, and F is Fine thread, and Type is the type of bolt, such as Hex or Carriage. Refer to a thread size chart if you are unsure if the given thread pitch is coarse or fine)

Nuts are to be named MS10xxx-TypeNutSizeThread (i.e. MS10xxx-JamNutM12C, MS10xxx-HexNutM5F where C is coarse, F is fine, Type is type of nut i.e. jam, hex)

Screws are to be named MS10xxx-TypeScrewSizeThreadxLength (identical to bolts, where Type is a special designation such as flat head, set, etc.)

Solidworks Drawing

Solidworks drawings are to be named DWG-#####-ShortDescription where #### is the drawing number. Drawing numbers are tracked here: MSXII Part and Drawing Numbers. PDF versions of drawing should only be committed to GrabCAD when the drawing is ready for release and should have the same name with a -R## suffix to indicate the revision number.

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