Chapter 17: Using Hole Wizard and Toolbox
FIGURE 17.9The finished Hole Series
Hole Series quirks
The Hole Series feature also has some quirks that you should know about so you don’t spend too
much time trying to verify that things are not working as you would expect. The first is that if you
start the Hole Series without preselection, the cursor that comes up initially is a 3D sketch cursor,
but once you click the cursor to place a point on a face, the Hole Series tool creates a 2D sketch
feature.The second example is actually from a tutorial in Chapter 16, and is where the Hole Series drills
multiple holes and the holes will not all go through the same parts. This is like the example shown
in Figure 17.10, where a hole drilled down from the top of plate 1 might drill into plate 5 or plate 6.
In this case, you would have to create holes that drill into different parts separately, as was done in
Chapter 16.Also, you may find that the Hole Series does not retain the information you give it for “End Part,”
or the depth of the tapped hole at the end of the series. Behavior like this makes the Hole Series
difficult to use reliably, so make sure to double-check any data created with the Hole Series fea-
ture. It is a highly convenient feature, but may also be flawed.