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Putting holes in at assembly

Putting holes in at assembly

Putting holes in at assembly

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Is there anyway in Inventor 5 to put holes through multiple parts at assembly? Just like in manufaturing you want to weld parts together and then drillthe holes for better preision.

RE: Putting holes in at assembly

If you want to you can make your assembly, and then under a new part number, you can create a derived part and then put a hole into it.  As for putting the hole into the actual assembly file, if you find a way, let me know.

RE: Putting holes in at assembly

It's been a while since I used Inv5, but I think this will work.
Activate the part into which you want to place holes. Then using 'project geometry' button, pick the round profiles of the holes you need from the greyed out mating part(s). When you return from sketch mode, you can use the cut command to make the holes (will only be rounds). Or, place hole center at center of each profile and use hole command to create.
Hope this works for you.

RE: Putting holes in at assembly

In the sketches make the hole centers adaptive for location and use them as an insert imate,it gets pretty complicated if your doing round to round you have to work of the work plane from tangent, still trying to get the hang of adaptive and shared sketches sketches

RE: Putting holes in at assembly

I use Inventor8 so I don't know if this is a new feature, but in the assembly you can create a sketch on a surface and then in the assembly panel it has a hole option. this will punch a hole through the whole assembly. Again this is ver.8 I've never used ver.5.

RE: Putting holes in at assembly

Just keep in mind that assembly features do not propagate back to the individual parts.

Sean Dotson, PE
RND Automation & Engineering
www.rndautomation.com

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