- The hole wizard can be used in context to an assembly.
Now, in this example, I'd like to add some tapped holes
in this lower plate here
that follow around these counterbored holes
that are on the top, red piece here.
To do that, I need to first edit this lower part.
So click on that part there and come over here to edit part.
Right now that we're in there, we want to go ahead
and add a hole wizard hole or actually four of them.
And I'm going to choose this top surface first,
come up here to the hole wizard,
and what I need to do is create a tapped hole.
So I'm going to click on tapped hole right here
and I'm going to make it a regular tap hole.
And I know that this is a half 13 socketed cap screw.
So go ahead and choose that one.
The end condition,
I'm going to go ahead and say through all.
And everything else looks pretty good there.
And then go over here to positions.
Now, when I'm in positions, I can actually kind of hover.
If I zoom in here, I can hover over the edge
and notice the center point will actually pop up
and just click and place that hole.
Same thing down here.
If I hover over an edge
then it will show me the center point
and I can click and snap that point right there.
Same thing over here.
Just make sure you are snapping
to that center point one more time.
All right.
There's those four holes and hit escape on your keyboard.
And now if you look at those, they should all be black.
If one of 'em happens to be blue
you probably didn't snap it to that center point.
And you'd need to go back and modify that.
If you of course, need to go back
and add more holes, go up here to the point command.
And then wherever you click will be a point.
If it's blue, it's not defined,
but if you already have all the holes correctly assigned
go ahead and delete those out.
And now we should be all set.
Okay. So go back and click on the green check mark.
Those holes get added
and then go back to your assembly.
So now I'm in the assembly
and notice directly below those holes
are those tapped holes.
Looks good, right.
Now, let's try moving the plate and see what happens.
Right? Nothing happened.
Just kidding.
It's going to happen.
We have to just rebuild it here it is.
Hit rebuild, and guess what?
Those holes automatically slide under
wherever I happen to be putting this red plate
the holes automatically follow it around.
Now, all I need to do is finish off this assembly.
Come over here to mate,
I'm going to grab this socketed cap screw
and meet it together here.
And one more mate for fun is
I'm going to choose that bottom of that hole
and grab the bottom of this screw, bring those together.
And then anywhere I drag this,
as soon as I hit that rebuild command,
it automatically brings those tapped holes
directly under where they need to be.
And everything's in context and working the way it should.