- The whole wizard is a feature inside of SolidWorks
that allows us to add industry standard size holes
to our parts.
We can add tap holes,
we can have countersunk holes, counterbore holes
and so many more.
So to get started using the tool,
let's go ahead and choose a surface.
Now I definitely recommend choosing the surface
ahead of time that you'd like to put the holes onto.
So notice I'm choosing the top surface
of my part right here,
and then come up here under features
and come over here to hole wizard, click on that.
Right now, we've got the whole wizard opened up
and you can see we've got a bunch of different options here.
Their first option here is, what type of hole would I like?
Would like a counterbore hole or a countersunk hole?
And if you just kind of hold your mouse over the hole
it's going to give you a heads up display
of what we're looking at.
So here's a straight tap.
Here is a Taper tap.
We can just do a legacy style hole.
We can even do things like a counterbore slot
or a countersunk slot, or just a regular slot.
So a bunch of the things we can do with this tool.
Let's choose that very first one here
which is a counterbore.
And then we can choose which standard we're looking at.
So I'm looking at the antsy inch,
there's also all these other standards we can use,
but I'm going to go ahead and choose an inch hole,
and then we can define how and which type of hole
we're going to be using.
So in this case, I'm going to go down here to
a sock head cap screw, and then choose my size.
In this case here, I'm going to type a three ace style,
and I can go down here and look at the in condition
which is going to be through all.
So most the time if you're going to be doing
a counterbored hole,
you probably do want to go through all.
Or if you're doing a tap hole,
you probably only want to go a certain depth.
But sometimes you might want to go all the way through.
Once you've got your type of hole figured out,
then you're going to jump over here
to this next tab called positions.
Now this is a little bit more tricky.
So anywhere I put a dot, a point on the screen,
on that surface, it's going to put one of those holes.
So if I click here,
it's going to add that counter board hole right there,
wherever that is.
Now look at my cursor, it is a point command.
Up here under the sketch toolbar.
The point command is turned on.
So if you want to stop adding points, just turn it off.
If you want to add more points,
click on the point command and turn it back on.
So here's my points.
And sometimes people who are just getting started
with SolidWorks will just start adding points
all over the place.
And they have no idea how to get out of the command.
Well, if you have a bunch of points
and you're not sure what to do, hit escape for one
that'll get you out of the point command tool.
Then just click on the points themselves.
Notice this one here and hit delete in your keyword,
that will remove that point.
So you're not creating that hole.
If you want to add another one, of course
just go back up to sketch,
go over here to point click and add a point.
Hit escape when you're done.
Now, notice I already had a sketch right over here.
Now in this mode, I can add more sketches if I'd like to.
I can create some lines.
I can use some construction geometry.
I can just draw that like right on the screen here.
No problem, whatever you want to do.
And then you can take these points
and you can snap that to construction geometry,
but we actually already have some construction geometry.
We already have this sketch here from a previous sketch.
And I can use that as well.
So snap to those points right over there.
I'm going to grab those points
and just kind of slide 'em till they snap.
And then over here,
I'm going to delete that construction geometry,
'cause I don't need it.
And then bring that last point over snap together.
Notice all those points, they turned black.
So they're fully defined.
They know where they are in space.
And when you're done,
go ahead and click on the green check mark,
and there we've quickly added those holes to our design.
Now that we've added those first four holes,
we can always go back and modify the hole wizard.
It is just a feature in the tree here.
So if I click on the feature itself,
I can come back here and edit the style of hole.
I can switch from a counterbore hole
to a countersunk hole, click okay.
And just that quickly I was able to change all those holes
to a different style of hole.
I can change the size, I can change the standard.
It's a really great way to add in all this data
to your part, without having to go figure out what that is.
Most people don't know off the top of their head
exactly the right size to make a counterbore screw hole
for a three ace socket head cap screw,
but SolidWorks has this great library or this great database
all stored within the hole wizard.
That's going to allow us just easily select from that list.
Come in here, jump in here and just pick one of these sizes
or the style of hole, quickly add it, go to positions,
add some more holes if you want to,
and then when you're done,
of course just hit on the green check mark.
And you've got those modified holes in your part.