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Getting started with the Hole Wizard

Getting started with the Hole Wizard - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Getting started with the Hole Wizard

- [Instructor] The Hole Wizard is a feature inside of SOLIDWORKS that allows you to add industry standard holes, slots and taps to your part. It's pretty straightforward and easy to use, so let me show you exactly how to use it. Go ahead and click on the Hole Wizard under the Features tab, click on that one there. Now you can see over here, we've got a whole bunch of different styles of holes we can add. Up here at the top, you can see we can start with a counterbore hole or a countersink, a regular hole, and then jump down here into the taps, so you can do a straight tap or a pipe tap or tapered tap, and so on, and down here, you also have the ability to add slots, so we can do a counterbore slot or a countersunk slot or just a straight slot, so you have a whole bunch of different options here, and we have a bunch of different standards and types of holes you can add, but first things first, before we jump into all that detail, let's go ahead and just figure out how to use this tool,…

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