From the course: Steel Building Design with SOLIDWORKS Weldments
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Adding in holes - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Steel Building Design with SOLIDWORKS Weldments
Adding in holes
- If you want to add in holes or use the Hole Wizard inside of a weldment, it's pretty straightforward. To do so, I'm gonna go ahead and choose this front face here, and go ahead and choose the Hole Wizard. I'm gonna find a through hole here, it's gonna be a screw clearance for a 5/8 inch bolt, I'm gonna use a Through All condition, and choose my positions here. Now I can just add points anywhere I want on the screen to define holes. Or, I can select those, delete them out, and then I can create something more like a grid, something like this, to define where these holes are gonna be. Making sure that you add, you know, vertical relationships here, horizontal relationships there. Maybe go to the origin, which is my favorite thing to do, and click on the center point there, make sure that everything's centered up on your shape. And then do the same thing here with maybe a series of cross members. And when we use that same technique we learned a little bit earlier, and using that center…
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