- If you want to add in holes or use the Hole Wizard
inside of a weldment, it's pretty straightforward.
To do so, I'm gonna go ahead and choose
this front face here, and go ahead and choose the
Hole Wizard.
I'm gonna find a through hole here,
it's gonna be a screw clearance for a 5/8 inch bolt,
I'm gonna use a Through All condition,
and choose my positions here.
Now I can just add points anywhere I want
on the screen to define holes.
Or, I can select those, delete them out,
and then I can create something more
like a grid, something like this,
to define where these holes are gonna be.
Making sure that you add, you know,
vertical relationships here,
horizontal relationships there.
Maybe go to the origin,
which is my favorite thing to do,
and click on the center point there,
make sure that everything's centered up on your shape.
And then do the same thing here with
maybe a series of cross members.
And when we use that same technique
we learned a little bit earlier,
and using that center line command again
we're just gonna go and just connect the lines together.
So we have a nice, logical bolt pattern,
making them all equal by holding down control,
make equal.
And then just defining any one of these lines here.
So I can say these are maybe a two inch bolt pattern,
two inches from the bottom.
And make sure that's gonna clear,
that's gonna be a little bit high,
so I'll maybe bring that down a little bit.
So I type in one inch there,
right down to the bottom,
and make this a 1.5.
And that's the great thing about working inside
of a weldments, is you can really take a look
at the design and see if that's gonna work
for your design.
Still maybe a little big,
so I'll say 1.0.
Or, 1.25.
Again, I'm just deciding on the fly
what's gonna be in this design
by looking at it because I'm looking
at how these are gonna interact
between the two plates.
So I've got a plate here,
I've got a plate there,
I want to make sure it's gonna have clearance
on the front side and the back side.
Once I have what I'm looking for
I can switch over to the Point command
and just click and point everywhere I want
one of those bolts to show up.
And then I'm using that structural member,
and this little sketch here,
to find where these holes are gonna be
and where they go through.
Looks pretty good.
Click on Okay.
And that should pop a hole
through both this side,
as well as holes on the other side.
Now, if I wanted to add in some bolt gussett plates,
or something like that,
I can also define those inside of this weldment.
So let's click on the here on the back,
and let's define a sketch.
And I'm just gonna snap
to some existing geometry here,
so I'm gonna click on this line here,
up to this corner right there,
over to this corner here,
back to this corner over here,
and over to there.
Now, this is pretty rough,
so I can go then and add in some relationship
between this line here,
and that line there.
I want to make them collinear.
These are already collinear,
that's looking pretty good.
This one over here is not,
so I'll click on that line there,
that line there.
And you make collinear.
And maybe this line here
with this line over here,
and let's make them parallel.
And then maybe define just a length
between the two.
Let's say it's gonna be 15 inches.
Great.
So now that's a plate I can use
in defining structure.
So I click on Boss Extrude,
let's say it's gonna be a half inch thick.
Click Okay.
And again, I've added that to my cut list
as a seperate part.
And then, I can use this again,
for Hole Wizard.
Through Hole, same place hole
we were using before.
Click on positions.
Now you can define a structure here,
or I can just click on a bunch of
different bolt holes where I want
them to be, again, I'll definitely use a
some type of a structure to lay that out,
but just as an illustration,
I can quickly add a bunch of holes,
click Okay,
and it's gonna pop it through a bolt
that bolt plate, as well as the other plates here.
It's a very quick way to create, you know,
boit and structure inside of the weldments package
using also the Hole Wizard.