Hole wizard

[iumcad]

I am a solid works newbie and was told that there was an easy way transfer (top down) holes from existing details for fastening. I was originally told that when "positioning" a hole in the wizard that the cursor would "pick up" the reference geometry hole center if you looked straight down the barrel of reference hole. Its not working like this for me. The only way that I know how to do this is create a sketch and convert the reference hole geometry, then create a point, then position my hole in the hole wizard using this point; that is kind of how you have to do it in Inventor, by creating a sketch and transferring reference geometry. This is driving me nuts, and I know that its something stupid that I am doing wrong.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Wen you hover the cursor over the edge of the hole, the quadrant points and centre point should appear. Is this not happening with your install?

Which SW version?

 

[iumcad]

I am temporarily running the 2006 90day personal edition

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

You can also turn on the Temporary Axis or show the HW point sketch, then you will be able to snap to either.

 

[Diemaker1]

Iumcad… SW will do exactly what you want to.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wSRV-0PASsk

Inferred relations are one of the best things about SW. Why you are not able to do it I don’t know, it has always worked for me. Does anyone know of an option setting that turns off Inferred relations?

Maybe you are trying to infer a hole that’s UNDER the part you are sketching on? SW can do that but you have to have some options set properly.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Tools > Options > System Options > Display/Selection and in the Selection of hidden edges section, select the applicable option.

 

[smcadman]

What you want to do is enable snaps and "Snap to model geometry". If snapping is not enabled, then Automatic Relations is off also.

Relations-Snaps

SW07 SP2.0

Flores

 

[iumcad]

Thanks! I finally got it. Turned out to be a setting, and I was not "normal to" the plane so it would not snap correctly. Know if I could figure out why its not showing the threads, I have the cosmetic thread option checked but now thread display.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

In the Feature Manager, RMB the Annotations folder and select [bView Annotations[/b]

In the main toolbar, View > All Annotations