Hole Table Heirarchy: Can I reorder the &(*@%^ things?

[charbroil]

Ever since I discovered the beauty of the Hole Table for Detailing, I've been fighting its numbering/lettering system. Test have shown me that no matter in what order I pick the holes, Solidworks could care less when it numbers them into the table. The order the holes were created in the model itself drives the numbering.


Is there any way around this? When I dimension holes, I try to start at a logical hole and move around the topography of the part in a single direction. But leaving the Hole Table routine to the whim of the designer (or translator) makes for numerically consecutive holes that bounce everywhere around the part and back again like a seismograph in an earthquake. I get funny looks from the machinists.


System: Dell Precision 650—Intel Xeo @ 2.66 GHz with 1/2G RAM
OS: Windows 2000 SP3
Graphics: NVidia Quadro FX 500 128Mb (OpenGL set to Solidworks)
Version: Solidworks 2005, SP0.1

 

[CMcF]

I asked about this, and was told that a lot of other people had as well. The answer is that there is no way round it yet.
You may be able to appease your machinists, by exporting the tables into text or excell files that they can be cut 'n' pasted into their programs.