I've got another part I'm having a hard time with, as far as making holes. I need to make a model of this part. I've created a simple 32mm x 3mm cylinder, then a 16mm x 10mm cylinder on top of that. I've used the Add Solid tool to make them one piece. No matter what I try, I can't get a hole to go through both.

When I use push/pull, it only goes through the smaller cylinder, and ends when it hits the face of the 32mm flange at the base.

When I use the Hole Tool (creating a point on the face of the small cylinder at the center, selecting the face of the cylinder as the face into which the hole goes, then option-clicking on the point), I get two dialog boxes:



And when I click Yes, I get:



How does one do this? I'd think that by using Add Solid to merge the two solids into one, I would be able to put a hole straight through the new object, but I can't.

Edited by user Saturday, November 9, 2019 12:06:56 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

I'll have to try it again on Monday when I'm back in the office. I spent about an hour this morning trying a bunch of different ways to make it work. I definitely had snaps enabled for center, endpoint, midpoint, on face, etc. Maybe the issue is using a point.

Ok, so I just tried this again in a brand new project. I made a 32mm x 3mm cylinder, and made a 16m x 10mm cylinder centered on the face of the wide one, then used Add Solids to merge them together. I selected the hole tool and clicked on the face of the small cylinder. Then I clicked on the center point. And I continue to get the "Face containment cannot be determined" dialog, with no hole. If I select the entire cylinder, I get the "Project from referenced snap along hole/boss axis?" (YES) then "Inconsistent face-body relationships"

I did however, get it to work. I think the problem is that when you select the Hole tool, the parameters you set across the top of the screen assume a countersunk hole, and the settings I had for the countersink were impossible for the object I'm making. The issue here is that you can't turn off countersinking in that part of the interface, and unless I'm wrong, there's no way to do so until you can get to the hole in the Inspector (which you can't do until there's a hole, which you can't make with the settings I had). Once I managed to get a hole through the thing with different countersink settings, I was able to change the parameters in the Inspector and get what I was looking for.

Why can't you turn off countersinking when creating the hole in the first place? Or am I missing something where I can see all the parameters you can see in the inspector, before a hole is created?

Thanks!

This is Shark V8, its constraints and patterns are in VCP V11. A revolved profile, constrained parameters through variables palette, hole and hole pattern parameters in inspector. It's a doddle. Initial hole tool properties are in the program header.

Edited by user Thursday, November 14, 2019 11:47:14 PM(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Do you not have another little toolbar that pops up when you select hole? It has 3 options in it, normal, c/bore and c/sink. It might be hidden behind something else you have on screen?

I don't know what a "flyoout option box" is. here's what I'm seeing:

1) Select the hole tool
2) Click on face where the hole goes
3) The bar across the top of the screen shows parameters for the hole to be made. these let you choose the type of hole and the plane, as well as text entry boxes for Depth, Diameter, Draft Angle, Sink, Sink Angle, Drill point. see attached.

These are always the same. there is no way to NOT have a countersink as far as I can tell.

Once the hole is made I can select it and go into the inspector, where I can change it to a simple hole. I've just done this on a complicated part that has about 50 holes, which meant post-editing 50 holes to remove countersinks.

Wait - so the icon in the upper left corner of the screen is a button that brings up options? I had no idea. I don't have ViaCAD installed on this machine, but is that in Pro v11, or is that a SharkCAD thing?

Aha! I had no idea that was an icon in the corner and that it would bring up that little pallet. Thanks!