How to instance/pattern a screw series hole 2

[Trietsch]

Hello,

Anyone know how to instance/pattern a complex hole? I have a countersunk hole in the attached part. Trying to do circular instance 4 places equally spaced.

-Originally created in NX6.0.5.3 the instance feature doesn't recognize the screw series hole as a feature to select.

-In NX9.0.0.19 I can select the screw series hole, but I get a message 'screw hole series is not supported and will be ignored'
I can use pattern geometry to get the hole in 4 places, however I don't seem to be able to boolean subtract them.

Thanks,
Ryan

 

[cowski]

Try "pattern face" (Home -> Synchronous Modeling -> more -> pattern face); when selecting the faces, change your selection intent to "feature faces" this will select all the faces of the hole in 1 selection and update correctly if/when the feature changes.

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[cubalibre000]

Hi Ryan,
you have used the wrong option. Hole series have to use in assembly when you want to drill more then one part with the same hole.


Thank you...

Using NX 8 and TC9.1

 

[Trietsch]

Cowski,

I'll try the Synchronous pattern face, that should work. (althought i'd much rather have the boolean functionality directly in the pattern feature dialog)

Cubalibre00,

Excellent topic. I tried to create that same hole in a 'normal' countersunk hole feature, however I was unable to put the c'sink depth in... I was trying that in NX6, perhaps NX9 has this capability. I'll try that as well.


Thanks Gents, these should get me to a workaround at worst.

 

[JohnRBaker]

Here's your part (see attached) using the correct Countersunk Hole feature.

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[Trietsch]

Excellent. the countersink relief is present for a screw clearance hole in NX6 as well.

Thanks!