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Need to show axis on hex-shaped holes, and slots

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davidinindy

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In Pro-E, I made a bunch of UDFs (user-defined features) of shapes that contained axis, for dimensioning purposes. I have not found a way in Solidworks to do this.
Basically, I want to automatically have an axis at the center of the hex shaped hole, or the oblong slot.
Any tricks to this?

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Have you looked into Library features to see if they will suit your needs?
 
Create the Hex Hole or Slot feature, create an axis using the sketch feature & the face the feature is created in.
Drag the feature & axis into a Design library > Features > folder of choice.

It sometimes takes a while for the Library Feature manager to open (on my systems anyway), so be patient.

 
 http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=17d1a9c9-130e-4203-907f-aea3f69bbad0&file=Hex_Hole_Axis.sldlfp
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