- [Instructor] The Hole Wizard can be used
to place holes on a flat plane
but we can also use the same exact tool in 3D.
So the first thing I need to do is come up here
to the Hole Wizard
and notice I didn't pre-select anything at all.
And right over here,
I'm going to switch over to a tapped hole.
I'm going to click into the inch system here
and I'm going to switch down to a quarter 20 tapped hole
and I'm going to say the end condition is going to be blind
and half inch looks good.
Everything else looks pretty good here.
So now what I want to do is go over here to the Positions.
Now notice because nothing was selected,
it's asking me, hey, do you want to start a 3D sketch?
And most of the time the answer's going to be no.
I want to pre-select a face that I want to put the holes on
but in this case I do want to make a 3D sketch.
Now what's cool about this is any face I go over,
notice it highlights it in gold,
that's where I'm going to be placing that hole.
I can click on multiple faces and add holes wherever I want.
The only problem with this is it's a little bit hard
to tell where those holes are going to be.
So I can switch over here
to like something like a center line.
In on a face,
I can like snap from a corner over here
to like another corner.
And then I could say like this point here,
hold on CTRL on the keyboard,
grab that line right there
and then say, these guys are going to make the midpoint.
So I can easily control it that way.
But what about up here on this surface here,
it's going to be a little bit harder to control that.
So you can go ahead and leave those holes if you want
but then go ahead and click on the green check mark.
There they are.
Now right before we create this feature,
let's go ahead and create another sketch.
So grab that history bar,
roll it back in front of that feature.
Now let's go ahead and create a sketch on that top surface.
And I'm going to start with a polygon.
So here's my polygon.
I'm going to draw out.
I'm going to start right here in the center and draw it out.
And then I'm going to say this top line here
is going to be horizontal
and I want to make this entire thing for construction.
Now I can define the size if I'd like
by one side to the other.
Type in like 2.5.
I am going to use that purely as something
that's going to allow me to place those points.
Okay and actually this little line
was turned into construction, but everything else was not.
It doesn't actually matter.
You can have it either way.
All right now,
when I come back down here to the Hole Wizard,
let's jump back into that feature
and then head back over here to Positions.
Now, because I'm on this face,
I can snap to those points
that I just created right here in the corners.
And it can easily figure out
where those holes are going to be,
actually SolidWorks is going to figure out
where those holes are going to be,
very easily by selecting those points.
And then the ones you don't like,
you can hit and hit Delete.
Okay and then once everything looks good,
go ahead and click on the green check mark.
And we're out of that.
And as you can see there,
we've added all those holes in 3D.
And what's really neat about this feature is
instead of creating multiple Hole Wizard features
in your tree,
they each have the same hole.
We can create all those holes at the same time.
That way, if you ever need to go back
and modify the hole to a different size,
all those holes can be modified with one selection change.
So it's a really great way to do that.
To recap, don't select anything ahead of time,
get into the Hole Wizard,
create the holes you want
and then go ahead and place them in 3D.
But before you actually start that Hole Wizard,
it's a good idea to create some sketches
to define where you're going to place those holes
on the different faces
so that you can control them a lot easier
when you're in that tool.