- The hole wizard is an amazing database filled
with just a huge amount of information
about different types of holes we can add.
And over here on my feature tree
I can see I've got this counter bore
for 3/8 button head cap screw.
If I actually edit that feature
I want to take a look at actually these hole specifications
and really dive in a little bit deeper
to learn about all the things that we can do
using the hole wizard.
Now we've already looked at the different styles of holes
so you can easily switch between these different styles.
You can see we've got a whole bunch
of different standards that we can easily switch between.
And if you pick one of those,
then you're going to get that style of
or that type of bolt that corresponds to that standard.
Of course, if you switch back over here
to something like metric,
you're going to get the metric fasteners in here as well.
As far as the hole specifications,
you can determine the size
which are the common sizes of that metric fastener.
If it's a size that's not in there,
they probably don't make it.
Okay.
Also my fit, I can choose
if I want to have a close, normal, or a loose fit,
and you can even modify that if you want to actually
type in your own values here, you can modify the hole
you're putting into your part very easily
by just adjusting some of these values.
Now keep in mind though,
if you'd adjust it to a size that doesn't work,
that's going to cause you issues.
So make sure you're adjusting a size that will work
with the fastener of your choice.
Same thing with the end condition here.
We've got a whole bunch of different options here.
Most of the time,
if you're using a counter sunk or counter bored hole
it's going to be going all the way through your part.
So you can either say through all or up to next.
I actually recommend using the up to next option
if at all possible
because when you actually go to your drawing
when you click on that hole, it'll show through.
Whereas, if you say through all, it'll actually show up
as through all, but a lot of times that will be confusing
because there's only one thing to go through.
Okay, so make sure you're going up to next.
Head clearance, we have the option of adding
a little bit extra space on the top.
We can come down here and add a countersink
and we can choose how we'd like to adjust it.
We can have under head countersink
or far side countersink.
And if you were to switch to a different style of a hole,
like a countersink or sorry, we
we were looking at a counter bore.
If you're looking at a countersink, you can also
add a head clearance.
And then it's going to ask you, how do you want to increase this?
Do you want to increase the countersink or you
want to add a counter bore?
So a couple different options here that you can choose from.
So a whole bunch of different things you can control
inside of the hole wizard.
And of course, when you're over here
in the positions command, we can add more points
by clicking and adding dots.
If you're done with the dots, turn that tool off.
I can also then come over here and create some geometry
like a center rectangle, snap to the mid point
draw something like that out,
switch it over construction.
And then I can use that to control these points
and just snap those points onto the corners
or even the midpoints,
and actually just use this to control
the entire shape very easily.
All right.
So there's all my points I'm going to add.
And if you need to add a few more
we can just come over here
and just snap those where they need to be.
When everything looks good,
of course hit the green check mark.
And there you have the countersunk holes created
by the hole wizard inside of SolidWorks.