From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress

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Tapping

Tapping

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Integrated CAM with HSMXpress

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Tapping

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- [Instructor] In this video, we're going to be tapping the holes that we just created in the last video. Now the key thing for tapping holes is of course we need to already have a hole there. So more than likely, you've already done some work on your part as far as establishing either a spot drill or a regular drilled hole or something like that so we can actually run that tap through. Two things to remember are that we definitely have to remember to drill deeper than we're tapping, unless you're drilling completely through that part. In that case, you might actually want to run that tap a little past the end of the part as well so that you get full threads all the way through the part. We'll show you how to do that. So come up here to Drilling, click on Drill, and far as my tool, I'm going to go ahead and select the library tool. And because we've already added in our tool library, built our tool library up, I have it right here as this half tap. The only problem though is I notice…

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