Part IV: Creating and Using Libraries
FIGURE 17.29The finished Assembly FeatureManager interface
Summary
The Hole Wizard can make holes based on 2D or 3D sketches. The type of hole that you create is
up to you. Two-dimensional sketches are far easier to use than 3D sketches.I have met people who claim to have had good success with Toolbox even in a shared environ-
ment, but given that the problems with the tool are so easy to demonstrate, these people are either
extremely disciplined or extremely lucky. For all users except those who work alone and do not
share files with other Toolbox users, Toolbox can cause a number of major problems. You can
develop techniques to prevent you from experiencing Huge Screws; for example, either not sharing
assemblies with other Toolbox users or pre-populating all your configurable parts with all possible
configurations. Further, Smart Fasteners that you use in conjunction with Hole Series violate any
best practice guidelines that you could name when it comes to assembly performance and circular
references; however, if you can work with that, then it is a really sophisticated technique.