David Thomas Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Ok, chuck a block in and add a hole to it , no problem , insert a view of this into a drawing and your looking at the block with a circle in the middle. Then angle the hole within the block back within the scene and the view in the drawing can be upadated such that we are now looking at the profile of the block and an ellipse. No Problem ! Dimensioning it up is fairly simple as the user has the option to pick different parts of the ellipse , either giving the true diameter of the hole through the block or the major arc diameter of the ellipse. The problem that I have is you do not seem to have this pickability when using the Hole table feature. You are only able to pick the ellipse and it seems always to revert to the Major Diameter of the ellipse, not the true hole diameter. Is their a way around this , I did think of adding a note containing the real diameter for each of the holes and only displaying this, but will be extremely time consuming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Wright Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Hi Dave Just to confirm, you are twisting the hole so that it is moving in a compound sense - therefore the elipse does not present a true major and minor axis? Could always put a dimension on in the scene and check the transfer to drawing box? John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Thomas Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Hi John, errr , not quite with you there. All I'm doing in the scene is rotating the hole cylinder about one axis, i.e say the Z axis is down through the page then I rotate about the X axis. It would be really good to use the hole table as I have about 2000 holes in one plate, although we can use a pattern facility on the CNC machine and hence I only dimension the first line of holes , the automatic nature of the hole table really helps. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlehnhaeuser Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 (edited) Not sure this may help but did you try to change 2D view to precise mode? Edited February 26, 2007 by tlehnhaeuser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Thomas Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 Not sure this may help but did you try to change 2D view to precise mode? 16978[/snapback] I didn't , but I just have , and no joy. Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike Twining Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Not sure this may help but did you try to change 2D view to precise mode? 16978[/snapback] ...and your part to Parasolid... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Thomas Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 ...and your part to Parasolid... 16980[/snapback] funnily , my part was already parasolid..... so I've just tried acis , but no luck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Can you send you sample file. I don't seem to have the issue with my test case. Thanks Cary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary OConnor Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Never mind....I see the issue. You can hit it but it returns the wrong diameter. I'll file it to R&D. Thanks, Cary Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Thomas Posted February 26, 2007 Author Share Posted February 26, 2007 ok thanks Nick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest John Wright Posted February 27, 2007 Share Posted February 27, 2007 Nick Just being dumb! ignore me John Oh! you do Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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