SW 2006 Hole wizard..

Well the engineer left for a better job. It was a good move for him but
not for me...
I worked with SW 2004 for some time before but now need to get up to speed
on SW2006, them on the 2007 most likely...

Stuck on the hole wizard stuff. Looks to be a real time saver,but...
Building a drive roll for a machine and need to put two 1/4-20 set screws 90
deg. apart in the side of a Round Disk.... I.E. pulley.
I seem to remember just sketching on the round surface back in 2004, but it
has been awhile.

Just how does one go about dimensioning/positioning a point on the outside
surface that the hole wizard will accept?
Have tried sketching a circle and extruding, sketching the shape and
revolving... doesn't seem to mater..

Are there any tutorials for the hole wizard?

It is just amazing how an old machinist can get dependant on a new
engineer....

st

 

Pick the surface of the shaft first and then the hole wizard. That will
do two things. First the location sketch will become a 3D sketch.
Second, the locating point will be coincident to the surface. You will
then have to constrain and dimension the point to the proper location.

 

Well that sounds simple....but I just can't seem to make it work like it
seems it should... The problem I'm having is alineing one hole with a keyway
slot in the 'pully's' shaft hole...

st

 

Try creating a plane tangent to the surface you wish to put the hole in.
Create a spotface the diameter of the hole you wish to create and
approximately .010" deep. Select the bottom of the spotface as the
surface for the hole, open Hole Wizard and proceed as you would on any
flat surface. It works all the time.

If you make the hole depth equal to "up to next", the hole callout
annotation will say that the hole is "thru" not "thru all".

BB

 

Thanks will give this a try on Monday... back to work after a week of
loafing..
st

 

No, I just could not seem to get the plane to work ... concept not filling
head I guess.

I did manage to .... draw a 3D sketch on surface and use that with a
Coincident mate to the sketch line and then set the distance from the face
of the part..
Not sure it's the 'best' way. But the old mind got a handle on it..

Thanks again
st

 

Did you try to pick the surface first then if you want one hole RMB and
pick select. Then you can do the dim thing or locate from orgin.

The hole wizard is noun first then verb I think its the only command
that works that way. BACKWARDS. But when you get it to work it works
very well.

Steve

 

What I was having trouble with is trying to line up a 1/4-20 tap 'hole
wizard' with a keyway slot in a "pully".... 3d sketch worked for me... just
the way my old head does things I guess... started out on paper drawings a
long time ago....

st..