Creating Holes on Non-planar Faces

You can create a hole on a non-planar face. The associativity is ensured so that if you modify the face, the location of the hole is modified accordingly.

Before you begin: Create a shellable prism with a non-planar face and then create a point on this face.
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About Holes
In the Knowledge Base
Pre-selecting a line to create a hole on a non-planar face.
  1. Select the point to locate the hole and the non-planar face on which you want to create this hole.
    This operation creates a coincidence constraint between the point and the center of the hole.
  2. From the Manufacture section of the action bar, click Hole .
    The Hole.x dialog box appears. The app creates a plane which is tangent to the selected face at the selected point. This plane is used as a support for the positioning sketch.
  3. Select one of the following hole types and enter the required parameters:
    OptionHole Type


    		 Simple hole
    Tapred hole


    		Counter bored hole


    		Counter sunk hole


    		Counter drilled hole
  4. Click OK.

    The hole is created. The plane tangent to the face is not visible in the work area, but appears in the tree. You cannot edit it.



  5. Modify the location of the point.

    The hole is moved accordingly.



    Note: If you select the face and then create a point by clicking on the face, the point is not constrained but associativity is ensured between the hole and the face.

    Important: When handling power copies do not use holes on non-planar surfaces as input data. It is not possible to instantiate these element types.