Drill hole at an angle in Inventor

[DRock3]

Sorry if this sounds like a stupid question but I am in the process of teaching myself how to use Inventor 2009 Pro. I have been using google and a buddy of mine to learn but google isnt helping me and my buddy is MIA at the moment. I was hoping someone on this forum could help.

Ok, I have a standard assembly. I have two that meet together at a 90 degree angle to form a 'T'. And another plate that butts up to the both plates at a 45 degree angle. I want to put a hole that runs through one of the plates into the 45 degree plate at the same angle.

 

[rollupswx]

In the real world assembly will the holes be drilled at the assembly level or at the part level?

In any case you will need either
a sketch line to set angle and a workplane on the end of that line to place the hole

or

a sketch line to set angle and Revolve a rectangle around the sketch line to cut the hole.

If you can't figure it out attach what you have so far.

 

[GregLocock]

The way I did it was to create a plane parallel to the original sketch plane where I want the hole. Then I drew a centreline on it, and created a workpoint where that hit the surface of the part.

Then create a workplane at the point normal to the centreline.

Then create a workplane parallel to that but offset back a bit. Create a workpoint where the centreline intersects that. Then create a hole at that point.

This is not the fastest way but workplanes happen to suit the way we make jigs round here. - for example it would be very easy to modify that to give a linear array of holes.

Cheers

Greg Locock


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