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Variable hole size on cylinder 3

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magnusrm

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Nov 8, 2011
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I use NX6 to make a cylinder with a large amount of variable holes. After reading thread561-296588 i am able to create a series of 90 points on my cylinder. However the points does not show up in the "Part navigator". I have created some holes by manually selecting each point, but the problem is that the hole size vary, and its very much work specifying each hole diameter.
any tips?
 
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The best would be to do what you say, to create a dat file with
x y z d_hole d_counterhole depth_counterhole

can i paste the function for cbore holes somewhere into the journal you made 1 Aug 12 8:21?
Also i get the error: "Line 1: Statement is not valid in a namespace."
 
Attached is a zip file which contains the journal to create counterbored holes. I have also included the modified dat file which includes values for the counterbores. Please note you need to change the value for the depth of the cbore hole (currently set at "10.0") to what you want.

Frank Swinkels
 
 http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=047d518c-ce1b-4bfb-a888-45c736abd0cd&file=CylinderHoleExampleFri3Aug2012.zip
That worked. thanks alot! Very helpful for a fresh NX user. How do you recommend to learn to write journals?
 
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