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brengine
Mechanical
- Apr 19, 2001
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Workaround for Hole Wizard Edit Sketch Plane
Maybe this is old news, but I thought it was very useful. I just found this out at a presentation to our local Usernet.
You can create a COPY of any feature by highlighting it in the Feature Tree and [Control]-[LMB Dragging] it to a different location on the same or some other face of the part in the graphics area.
If you do the same thing, but do a [Shift]-[LMB Dragging], you MOVE the Feature to a different location/face...and the Hole Wizard creates features!
It's better to have less dimensions and references in the Sketch (may even need to delete some before you attempt the MOVE), but some of the basic dimensions and references will follow it around. The only real downside is that the RED Sketch origin moves and doesn't stay in line with the Part Origin. So you may have to redo the dimensions anyway, and it just doesn't "look" clean. But you won't loose the definition of or any associativity with the feature.
But remember, click the Feature, not one of it's sketches.
Another neat trick was to *NOT* choose a face before starting Hole Wizard. This way, you can lay down points for holes on !!!ANY AND MULTIPLE!!! faces. Cool, but I don't know if I'll actually use it or not. We'll see.
Just my $0.02,
Ken
Maybe this is old news, but I thought it was very useful. I just found this out at a presentation to our local Usernet.
You can create a COPY of any feature by highlighting it in the Feature Tree and [Control]-[LMB Dragging] it to a different location on the same or some other face of the part in the graphics area.
If you do the same thing, but do a [Shift]-[LMB Dragging], you MOVE the Feature to a different location/face...and the Hole Wizard creates features!
It's better to have less dimensions and references in the Sketch (may even need to delete some before you attempt the MOVE), but some of the basic dimensions and references will follow it around. The only real downside is that the RED Sketch origin moves and doesn't stay in line with the Part Origin. So you may have to redo the dimensions anyway, and it just doesn't "look" clean. But you won't loose the definition of or any associativity with the feature.
But remember, click the Feature, not one of it's sketches.
Another neat trick was to *NOT* choose a face before starting Hole Wizard. This way, you can lay down points for holes on !!!ANY AND MULTIPLE!!! faces. Cool, but I don't know if I'll actually use it or not. We'll see.
Just my $0.02,
Ken