You use this dialog to create New Hole features from hole geometry in the solid.
After completing this dialog you digitise the hole geometry. You digitise the hole's top-most and bottom-most faces (such as a cylindrical wall face or a chamfer face). The bottom-most face is optional and will not be applicable for simple straight holes.
This means you can select a sub-section of a complex series of stepped hole diameters, for example, on which to base the hole. (Otherwise the complete hole geometry might be found as a 'Formed' hole feature, which cannot provide as many parameters to the New Hole cycle.)
If you do not need such control over the hole creation, automatically find New Hole features using Solids menu ► Feature Finder.
The created New Hole feature
is given an 'Operation' property setting according to the complexity of
its geometry.
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Find similar |
Use your digitised hole geometry as a template for finding similar holes. When finding radial holes for example, all holes matching the digitised geometry and that fulfill the 'Radial' orientation selection criteria (below) will be found. This setting groups the holes into a single Hole feature (in the same way that the 'Group Similar' setting does in the Feature Finder dialog). The number of holes grouped into the feature is indicated by the feature's Hole Count property, in the Properties window. |
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Threading Information |
Check to import holes' threading data from Autodesk Inventor or SolidWorks. Please note that the threading data must have been defined using the CAD system's Hole Wizard, and EdgeCAM must have been started using the launch EdgeCAM option in the CAD system (see an example dialog from SolidWorks 2006...). |
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Name |
A name for the created hole features. Useful for identifying the hole feature in the Features Window. |
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Axis |
The axis of the current CPL (X, Y or Z) for identifying 'Radial' holes (see 'Orientation' below). |
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Orientation |
Choose from: |
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Vertical |
To be identified, holes must have an axis parallel to the Z axis of the current CPL. |
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Radial |
To be identified, holes must have an axis that intersects one of the axes of the current CPL, as specified in 'Axis' above. Note that this setting will not find Radial holes in the Radial turning CPL (it will in the Axial turning CPL). A hole whose axis is less the 1° from being aligned with the specified 'Axis' will not be found. If two such holes are found opposite each other in the wall of a hollow cylinder (using 'Find Similar') they will be found as two hole features in opposite directions with a depth set to the wall thickness. See an illustration... For the 'Find Similar' criteria, the 'radial angle' must be the same (the 'radial angle being how far the axis of the hole is from being aligned with its specified 'Axis'). Also the 'level' of the holes must be the same (so holes on different radius cylindrical faces will not be grouped, for example).
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