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Positioning holes in 3D

Positioning holes in 3D - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Positioning holes in 3D

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- [Instructor] The Hole Wizard can be used to place holes on a flat plane, but we can also use the same exact tool in 3D, so the first thing I need you to do is come up here to the Hole Wizard and notice I didn't pre-select anything at all. And right over here I'm going to switch over to a tapped hole, I'm going to click into the inch system here and I'm going to switch down to a quarter twenty tapped hole and I'm going to say the end condition's going to be blind and half inch looks good, everything else looks pretty good here. So now what I want to do is go over here to the positions. Now notice, because nothing was selected, it's asking me, hey, do you want to start a 3D sketch? And most the time, the answer's going to be no. I want to pre-select a face that I want to put the holes on, but in this case, I do want to make a 3D sketch. Now what's cool about this is any face I go over, notice it highlights it in gold, that's where…

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