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Hole Wizard mods

Hole Wizard mods

Hole Wizard mods

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in SW2006.

I'd like to change the HoleWizard drawing callout for tapped holes.  For instance, instead of 1/4-20 Tapped Hole, we'd like 1/4-20 Tap (the omitted part of SW's default note is a given)

Also, in the model itself, how can we add a default c'sink angle & diameter ("near" and "far side" when tapping thru) to the HW so that these values don't have to be entered in every occurance?
For instance, the 1/4-20 would have a c'sink angle of 82deg (ANSI std) and .265625 (1/64 over nominal)  I realize that other sizes will need differing appropriate diameters.

I've read numerous old threads regarding adding to or modifying the *.mdb files that HW uses....but what <u>program</u> is used to open the file(s), and is this the correct file to be changing for this purpose?

 

RE: Hole Wizard mods

To change your hole callout format you need to change the hole callout format file.  For the other, .mdb files are Microsoft Access Databases.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: Hole Wizard mods

Look at modifying calloutformat.txt

Bradley
SolidWorks Pro 2009 x64, SP2.0
PDMWorks Workgroup, SolidWorks BOM,
HP xw8600,
64-bit Windows Vista Business
Service Pack 1
Intel Xeon CPU, 3.00 GHz, 16 GB RAM, Virtual memory 166682 MB,
nVidia Quadro FX 4600 Driver 7.15.11.6956

RE: Hole Wizard mods

I noticed that some people were having trouble with the way solidworks calls out the number of instances in hole callouts.  I had some trouble with this because the default display is 2X or <NUM_INST>X and we like to place the number of instances on the second line as TYP. <NUM_INST> PLCS.  By editing the calloutformat.txt file you can add the appropriate text easily, but the 2X was still displaying.  If you delete the two astrisks' in front of NO-NUMBER-OF-INSTANCES it disables the default instance count and you can call the instances out however you wish.  This is something I just discovered and I'm unsure what other issues it may cause so use this at your own discretion.

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