I have played with several different approaches to bolted connections. My experience has been that making the effort to use simple, solid bolts has generally been worth while. I added one to the geometry u sent. This approach feels like it gives a reasonable feel for the bolt loads and the integration with the surrounding structure. I have a meshed bolt template that I import and scale up to fit the job, then I just have to copy and past and reposition each bolt - a bit of a fiddle but worth the time I feel
Singlebolt.pmx (4.9 MB)
