Using Hole Table to generate holes...

I have hole data for holes in a flat plate (circuit board) in the form
of x-y coordinates and diameter. Right now this is in three columns
of an Excel spreadsheet that I extracted from Gerber files for the
boards.

I have generated hole tables from existing holes, so there must be a
way to go "backwards" and generate holes in a model from such a
table. I would think that this would be a fairly common situation...

Anyone out there know a simple way to automate hole generation this
way?

Thanks,

Steven Taylor
Pacific Scientific Energetic Materials Corporation

 

Yes, create a new .txt file but change the file extension to .sldptab
enter your hole locations in this format
1in 2in
3in 4in
6in 5in
9in 9in

once you do that use a table driven pattern
browse for that file and the locations should be imported.
You need to set up a Coordinate system (reference geometry)
Then select your hole as the feature to be patterned, you may need to
add the first hole manually and then just exclude that position from
your list