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Standard Holes
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Standard Holes

Standard Holes

(OP)
I was wondering if there is a way to expand the standard hole library.  I recently created a part and wanted to add an NPT tapped hole but found no way of doing it.

Thanks,
David  

RE: Standard Holes

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Some of the info may be hard to follow, but this is staright from PTC. Have fun.

Steve

MODIFYING THE .HOL FILES

The standard hole dialog box was added by PTC in an attempt to provide it's customer base with an editable file for which commonly used hole types could be customized by the user to fit their particular design needs. The purpose of the standard hole dialog box and associated files was NOT intended to supply the customer base with a series of holes that should be used in every design. Additional modifications and improvements to this standard hole dialog box is currently being investigated by PTC.

The configuration file option "hole_parameter_file_path" can be used to create a custom .hol file which can be displayed in the hole creation dialog box and should be set up as follows:

1.) Copy one of the .hol files located in the load point/text/hole directory and rename it.

2.) Open the new file and change the value of the "THREAD_SERIES" parameter in the "TABLE_DATA" area to the name of the new .hol file and save the file.

3.) Place the new file in the desired directory.

4.) Set the configuration file option "hole_parameter_file_path" to the full path of the new folder that contains the new hole file.

5.) Restart Pro/ENGINEER. (Pro/ENGINEER must be restarted in order for these changes to take effect).



STANDARD .HOL FILE


TABLE_DATA
PRO_VERSION 22
THREAD_SERIES UNC
CLASS 2b
TABLE_UNITS inch
DEPTH_RATIO 1.25
CALLOUT_FORMAT


                    THREAD_DATA
                    FASTENER_ID  BASIC_DIAM  THREAD  TAP_DR  TAP_DEC  PERCENT_THREAD  CLEAR_DR_CLOSE  CLOSE_DEC  
                      1-64                                  0.073                64               #53            0.0595                         81%                                 #48                           0.0760     
                      2-56                                  0.086                56               #50            0.0700                         62%                                 #43                           0.0890    
                      3-48                                  0.099                48               #47            0.0785                         69%                                 #37                           0.1040    
                      4-40                                  0.110                40               #43            0.0890                         65%                                 #32                           0.1160    
(Example) 5-40 0.125 38 #38 0.1015 65% #30 0.1285 (Example) *****
                     6-32                                  0.138                36               #36             0.1065                         71%                                 #27                           0.1440     
                     8-32                                  0.164                32               #29             0.1360                         62%                                 #18                           0.1695    
                  10-24                                   0.190                24               #25             0.1495                         69%                                 #9                             0.1960    
                  12-24                                   0.216                24               #16             0.1770                         66%                                 #2                             0.2210   
                  14-20                                   0.242                20               #10             0.1935                         75%                                  D                             0.2460    
                 1/4-20                                   0.250                20               #7               0.2010                         70%                                  F                              0.2570     
                5/16-18                                0.3125              18                 F                0.2570                         72%                                  P                             0.3230    
                 3/8-16                                  0.375                16              5/16             0.3125                         72%                                 W                             0.3860   
                7/16-14                               0.4375               14                U                0.3680                          70%                              29/64                          0.4531    
                 1/2-13                                 0.500                13             27/64            0.4219                          73%                              33/64                         0.5156    
               9/16-12                               0.5625               12            31/64             0.4843                           68%                                 0                                    0          
                5/8-11                                 0.625                 11            17/32             0.5312                           75%                                 0                                    0        
                3/4-10                                 0.750                 10            21/32             0.6562                           68%                                 0                                    0          
                   1-8                                   1.000                   8              7/8                 0.8750                           73%                                 0                                    0         
               1-1/8-7                                1.125                   7            63/64              0.9843                            0                                      0                                    0         
               1-1/4-7                                1.250                   7           1-7/64             1.1093                             0                                      0                                    0         

                    CLEAR_DR_FREE      FREE_DEC     CLEAR_DR_MED     MED_DEC

                       #46                                        0.0810                        0                            0
                       #41                                       0.0960                         0                            0
                       #35                                       0.1100                         0                            0
                       #30                                       0.1285                         0                            0
(Example ) #29 0.1360 0 0
                       #25                                       0.1495                         0                            0
                       #16                                       0.1770                         0                            0
                       #7                                         0.2010                         0                            0
                        I                                            0.2280                         0                            0
                       F                                 &

RE: Standard Holes

(OP)
Thanks a bunch I'll try it.

Dave

RE: Standard Holes

Additional tips for this issue is to split the default iso.hol into 2 hol files with the first preferred hole sizes in one and subsidiary in the other. We have named the files 1st_pref_iso.hol and 2nd_pref_iso.hol. If you also delete the iso.hol (<proe installation dir>\text\hole\iso.hol) the default hol file would then be the first in alphabetical order.

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