Newbie:hole in a cylinder

Hi everybody,
I have been struggling to do this but to no avail. I sketched a circle
and extruded it to a cylinder. Now i want a hole on the nonplanar surface
of the cylinder. However, solidworks doesnot allow me to do this.

Searching this newsgroup i found out that i need to create a plane parallel
to the surface, sketch a circle there and extrude it to cut the cylinder.

However i am lost on how to create a place in the first place! Should i be
using Insert>Reference Geometry>Plane to insert a plane or is there some
other option. I am not getting a plane with the above menu option.
Can anbody lead me out of this tunnel.
Thanks

 

You use that command but you have to use other stuff along with it. Like
picking another plane, a line, a point, etc... See the help - Under the
index tab type "planes" you get a long list on how to do's....

Regards,
Scott

 

.....or if you have SW2003 or newer, just pick the surface of the
cylinder, and then click the Hole Wizard....

 

Click on the plane tool button on your reference geometry toolbar, or
Insert>Reference Geometry>Plane. Then select the cylindrical face, and a
plane that is 90 degrees to where you want your hole to be, it should give
you a preview, and if you dont want it on the side of the cylinder that it
created it on, simplyclick the Other Solutions button in the property
manager that is up on the Feature manager design tree.
Hope that helps

sw-pw-man

 

I'm wondering if the obvious is being missed here. If I understand the
original issue, a circle was extruded into, say, a piece of round bar
stock.. Then a hole is required to go through it for a pin, or bolt, or
something.

The best method, in my opinion, is create the circle at the origin. Then
the hole can be sketched on one of the system planes and extruded cut out
both directions.

Sometimes newbies don't know how to ask the right questions, so it's up to
us to point out the best methods and options. If I'm wrong on the initial
interpretation, my humblest apologies. (deep bow)

WT

 

He said nonplanar surface. I took it to be the cylindrical surface.

sw-pw-man