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Positioning holes in 3D

Positioning holes in 3D - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Positioning holes in 3D

- [Narrator] There are two basic ways to use the hole wizard. Number one, is by choosing a flat plane and then adding holes to that plane. Or, we can operate in 3D space. If you're operating in 3D, you can place holes on any surface in 3D. Now, let me show you how that works. First things first, come over here to features, click on the hole wizard and let's go ahead and just choose something like eight tapped holes. Over here I'm going to choose a straight tap. Come down here to a bottom tapped hole and actually I'm going to switch over here to the inch system. Click over here on inch, here it is, and the size is going to be a quarter inch. So let's use a quarter plane, alright. And instead of through all, I'm just going to make it blind. Half inch deep looks good, and you can drill a little bit deeper, so you can tap the hole. Well, that looks great. Down here, I'm going to add the thread call out, which looks fine. Alright, now we're ready to start placing our holes. So, go over…

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