- Another really handy tool inside of the SolidWorks
evaluate toolbar is this hole alignment tool.
Go ahead and start that one up
and you see we're going to be looking
at this entire assembly here.
And we're looking for the center or the hole deviation,
go ahead and click on calculate
and notice it's finding four problems.
So our maximum deviation is only five thousand seven inch,
which you know, is a lot, when you're talking about
having pins line up and things like that,
and so yeah, you see what's really happening,
so open it up, you can see, we've got this piece here
and here's our deviation between those two parts.
But it looks like the five thousandth's between the boards.
And it looks like we're probably going to go the same thing
on all these, so it's all those holes.
So it's one, two, three, four different holes in the design
are a little bit off, so let's go ahead and open that up
and see what's happening, so click on this part here.
Click on open part.
It looks like these are the holes here,
which are causing the problem.
Let's go ahead and open that up
and take a look at that sketch.
Flip over normal to it,
so it looks like it's 1.630
and maybe there's a rounding error that happened,
maybe somebody printed out a drawing and they rounded it up,
but I believe that value's supposed to be 1.625
instead of 3-0.
So let's go ahead and make that change.
And notice that is a linked dimension,
so that should change all these.
So let's go ahead and verify it did change
the other hole as well.
Here it is.
Let's go ahead and open that up
and verify that it did change to 1.625.
Now we have these holes done, go ahead and click on save.
And go ahead and close that out.
Now we're back into our assembly
and of course, let's go ahead and run that one more time,
hole alignment.
And go ahead and calculate it
and hey, we've fixed the problem.
There's no misaligned holes and that's exactly what we want.
Sometimes the smallest change in misalignment
is really the one that's going to be hard to find.
If that hole was an inch off, we would clearly see it,
but if it's only a few thousandths off,
obviously very hard to see, very hard to detect,
but this hole alignment tool will save the day
and figure those out for us.