From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress

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Drilling

Drilling

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress

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Drilling

- [Instructor] Alright, now that we've set up our part, we've selected some tools, now it's time to really start cutting some metal and start doing some real machining operations. Now if you spent the time to set up your job correctly and select the right tooling, doing these next operations is going to be a whole lot simpler, so let's jump right in and start making some holes. First things first, notice we do already have a drilling operation right over here, click on that drilling operation, you can see, when we were drilling those four holes, we're actually just spot drilling those four holes. Let's go ahead and delete that operation, and then go ahead and add it back in. So I'm going to click on this operation here, hit delete on my keyboard, click on yes, and now let's jump in and start creating that drilling operation one more time. So head up to your cam toolbar up here, under drilling, click on drill, now automatically it selects a tool for us, and it says, hey, we're choosing…

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