How Do I Do.....

Please could you help a novice SW user (me) with the following :

How do i transpose a hole(s) position from one item to another.

ie. I have a sheet steel panel with no holes in it. I have inserted it into
an assembly drawing, and i want to `pick up' the tapped hole positions which
are in the mating parts of the assembly. These tapped hole positions are
underneath the sheet steel panel. I need to transpose these positions to
enable me to put the clearance holes into my sheet steel panel.

I hope that makes sense !

I have tried inserting a simple hole but i don't seem to be able to add a
concentric relation to the tapped hole in the mating part. SW tells me
`please select from two different sub-assemblies'

 

Select the mating part in the assembly mode. RMB > Edit Part. select the
appropriate surface Hit the hole wizard button. Select your desired hole
size. hit next. SW adds a single point you can add one more for each hole
you want. Now turn off the point tool and constrain the points to each of
the mating holes. hit finish and you will have holes that are associated
with the hole pattern of another part.

Corey

 

Keep in mind that the holes will then be in-context of the other part - if
the holes move in the bottom part, they will also move in the panel part.
If you want to keep that relationship, so be it. If not, as in you just
want to locate them the first time, then you need to break those relations
and dimension the points in the new part.

WT

 

Thanks very much, I was trying to pick the points from the wrong face, all
sorted now, thanks again.