- [Instructor] If you're like me,
you probably leverage the Hole Wizard
when you're designing your SolidWorks
parts and assemblies
on the modeling side of SolidWorks.
Well if you do that, here in the drawing side of SolidWorks,
you can leverage all that information by using
the Hole Callout feature to automatically label all
of the information that comes driven from the Hole Wizard.
So I'm going to go ahead and click on this
and go over to a threaded hole down here.
You can see when a highlight over it
I see an eight-32 tapped hole.
If I click on that hole and then drag it
out and I'm going to zoom out a little bit.
I now get a full description of the operations
required to create that hole.
So I'm getting, when I click again to accept the annotation
I get the quantity-
so I have four of those holes that run
across my part.
The diameter of the drill that I need,
the pre-drill.
And then I also get the spec for
the thread that needs to be used, or the tap
that I'm going to use into this machine part to
create the thread. Also notice here, the depth.
So it's a through all in both cases
if I had a shallower hole,
it would give me the depth symbol
and that dimension as well. So really handy.
If I had to go up here to the note,
zoom in, grab this edge, come down here
manually type all of that information,
which takes a while 'cause you've got
to pull up symbols over here in the text,
drop those in, get this all in here,
just right,
but then, you know-let's say I finished this
now and everything's all right.
Then next time I update this hole,
this annotation is not going to to update
whereas this Hole Callout will update.
So I'm going to open this really quick
and I'm going to go down here and
I'm going to to edit these holes.
I'm going to to change them from an eight-32 tap,
to a 10-24 tap and just make them
a little bit bigger.
Hit Ctrl+Q to rebuild,
I'm going to save everything.
So I hit save all,
go over to my drawing sheet that rebuilds,
and now you can see my annotation here has updated as well.
So... again, Hole callouts are a great, great feature,
but you do need to use the Hole Wizard first
when designing your part to get that to come through.
So Hole Wizard,
and Hole callouts, use them together as a pair,
and you'll speed through your drawing views in no time.