- [Instructor] Slots have been part
of the SolidWorks hole wizard for a while,
but recently they've made a few great improvements.
Let's take a look.
Right here, if I click on the top surface here
I come up here to the hole wizard,
I'm going to go ahead
and jump into that tool,
and notice at the bottom
we've got a counterbore slot,
we've got a countersunk slot,
and we have a regular slot here.
So I'm going to choose that regular slot
and something like 3/8 7 inch.
Now we can change the way we dimension it,
so you can either go from the center point
to the center point,
or do on the outside.
So I'm going to go ahead
and choose the outside
in this case here,
and define the length.
So I'm going to type in 1 inch,
and my condition is going to be through all.
I can add a little countersink if I'd like,
a couple things like that,
and then head over here to positions.
Now notice if I go to positions
one thing that's been added,
If I hit tab it'll automatically,
so click and I hit tab,
I can rotate my slot 90 degrees.
Pretty handy.
Quick little feature that they've added
which is to make things a little bit easier.
So again, if I have a couple slots in there
and if I hit tab,
it'll rotate both of them
and it makes it real easy
to place those positions.
I can also of course,
define some dimensions from the edges here,
so I could say something like dimension
and go ahead.
Oh, hang on.
I accidentally hit okay,
but we can go back in there,
no problem.
Right click on it,
say edit feature,
back into the position tab,
and this time I'm going to go
and look straight down normal to it,
and I can add a couple dimensions now,
of course, I can add a dimension
to the center point,
or to either one of these other points
out here on the sides.
Type a dimension in,
come up here,
and a couple different ways we can do that,
and because I've got that center point,
I can rotate about,
obviously once I've defined something like this
it won't let me tab rotate it,
but prior to that
it does gimme a quick and easy way
to rotate those slots
and get those positions
exactly where we need them.