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Getting started with the Hole Wizard - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Getting started with the Hole Wizard

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- The Hole Wizard allows me to create industry standard holes. Like taps, countersinks, and counterbores, by selecting from a library of commonly used sizes. I'm going to go ahead and choose this part here, and then come up here to Hole Wizard. Once the Hole Wizard opens up you can see that I have got a bunch of different hole types that I can apply. I can use this one here, which is a counterbore. I can use a countersink. I can use just a regular hole. I can use a tapped hole, tapered pipe tap, a customer legacy style hole, a counterbored slot, a countersunk slot, or the final one, which is just a standard slot. In this case, I'm going to use that very first one here, which is a counterbore. I'm going to choose which standard I'd like to use. I have a bunch of them. And we're going to be covering that in the next movie, but I'm going to go ahead and just choose ANSI inch In as far as the style of hole, I like to use what's called a Socket Button Head Cap Screw. As far as the size, I'm going to type in a quarter inch. And as far as the fit, I'm going to click on normal. And through all is my end condition. I have some other options as far as adding a head clearance or a countersink. But I'm going to leave those as they are for right now and then I'm going to switch over here. Instead of Type I'm going to click on Positions. Now the way the Hole Wizard works is I'm going to place individual points on my drawing. Every place I place a dot or point, it's going to create that exact hole right there. Here is an example. Click here once and it just starts adding these individual holes anywhere I want on my part. When I'm happy with what I have, click on OK. And there it is. It just automatically creates all those holes in my part by simply adding little points or dots to my drawing. If I want to go back and edit this, click on the feature itself, click on Edit Feature, and then come back over here. I can either change the style of hole, the size of the hole, or any of these other things here. And it will automatically update the part. Click on 3/8, the parts automatically change. Go over to Positions. In this case, if you don't want one of these holes, notice we're automatically in the point command, if I hit escape that'll turn that off, or if I just turn it off by clicking on it one more time. Then I can click each individual dot and just hit Delete. Take that one out. And if I want to add more, just click on the Point command and just add a few more in. Now I also have the ability to link these to other sketches, or define them with dimensions or construction geometry, like center lines. And we're going to be going over doing that in the next couple of movies. When you're happy with the holes you have, go ahead and click on OK. And that's the basics for using the Hole Wizard.

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