Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
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I'm creating several parts that have dowel pin holes, and I am using Hole Wizard to get the automatic callouts. I create the hole with the correct dimension, and have the correct tolerance right in front of me, but there is no place to enter the tolerance into the dimension. I can put it in the hole profile sketch, but it does not show up in the drawing. Right now I just wait until I create the drawing (days later) and then have to go back and look up the tolerances again.
I could just use extrusion cut, but I lose the automatic callout (depth, quantity). Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Steve
I could just use extrusion cut, but I lose the automatic callout (depth, quantity). Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Steve






RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
Did you mean Insert>Model Items in the drawing file?
That does indeed allow me to display the tolerance I entered into the part, but I lose the depth and quantity callouts. Sorry to be picky, but no real improvement from the Extruded Cut method.
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
If you want to use the Hole Callout with tolerance shown, you have to click on the callout and add it in the manager that appears. That only works for the dia, not the depth.
Hopefully SW2010 has improved this.
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
Deepak Gupta
SW2009 SP3.0
SW2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
I double clicked on the hole feature in the graphics window, then double clicked on the diameter dimension (the one I want the tolerance on). I was able to add tolerances, which show up in the part. But when I make the drawing, there are no tolerances. If I turn on the tolerances in the drawing dimension, they are .000, not the .005 I entered in the part.
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
Deepak Gupta
SW2009 SP3.0
SW2007 SP5.0
MathCAD 14.0
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
-Dustin
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RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
Are you looking for something like this?
You can insert hole call out from the Annotation Tab.
I hope this helps.
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
That is the end result I am looking for. As I mentioned above, I am using Hole Wizard to get the automatic callouts you showed, but Hole Wizard does not let me enter tolerances into the part, as far as I can tell. I must wait until I make the drawing, which could be days later, or I must use extruded cuts which does not give the full automatic callouts.
If you put those tolerances into the part, and not the drawing, please let me know how you did it.
Thanks,
Steve
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
Create the hole using Hole Wizard.
Edit and Modify the sketch created by the Hole Feature.
Add the proper tolerance to the Sketch Dimensions.
Please see the attached picture.
Thanks
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
I think I am not being clear, so let me start from the beginning. The attachment shows what I want as an end result - a top view, not a section, with a callout of diameter, diameter tolerance, and depth.
I want to put all the relevant information in the part so when I make the drawing later I do not have to go back and look up tolerances.
I want to use the Hole Wizard, because I can then use the Annotations to pop up exactly what I want in the Drawing.
BUT, if I enter the tolerances on the Hole Wizard sketch as you suggest, they don't show up in the drawing callout. I turn on the tolerances in the drawing, but they come up zero, even though I have a value in the part sketch. (I got the tolerances in my attachment by adding them in the drawing.)
I put the tolerances in the part. Can you tell me how to show them in the top view callout?
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
For some mysterious reason, the Insert > Model Items hole callout does not include the tolerances.
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
Insert>Model Items, with the Hole Callout button (lower right of the Dimensions section).
I get the diameter and depth, but no tolerance. When I click on the dimension, I can add the tolerance, but it comes out zeros. I can make it anything I want, independent of the part tolerance.
Insert>Model Items, with the Hole Wizard Profile button (lower left of the Dimensions section).
I get the diameter and the correct tolerance, but no automatic depth (no way to include depth parametrically at all, AFAIK) and no radial leader.
All the pieces I want are available, just not at the same time :)
But it seems like a bug, that the callout tolerance is not connected to the part tolerance.
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
RE: Add tolerance in part with hole wizard
Thanks!