Hole Recognition Dialog

Knowledge Base

Use the drop down to choose a particular Knowledge Base template. Using this template will apply the rules defined in it to create the hole features. To learn more about the Knowledge Base, see the Knowledge Base topic.

Note: The last Knowledge Base template to be edited in the Knowledge Base will automatically be shown here.

Geometry

• Select Whole Bodies
  
  Select the check box to enable whole body selection. When you click a part model, the entire model is selected. Single entity selection is disabled. When using the Select Whole Bodies option, the software automatically creates features for all holes (or radii) found in the model. This may result in more features than desired, but you can simply delete the extra features from the CAM tree after finishing the wizard. Note that you can use the Options group to limit the hole diameters for which the software creates features.
  
  Clear the check box to use standard single entity picking. This allows you to select single sketches, edges, surfaces, or CAD features.

Selecting and Removing Geometry

The entities that you select in the graphics area or Feature Manager Design Tree display in the Geometry list. To remove geometry, right-click in the Geometry list to open a shortcut menu with the following options.

• Clear Selections - Removes all selections from the list.
  
  
• Delete - Removes the currently selected items from the list.
  

Tip: You can also remove geometry selections by deselecting entities in the graphics area

Selecting Multiple Entities in the Geometry List

The Geometry list allows for multiple selections using standard controls as follows.

• Click an entity name in the list to select it.
  
  
• Hold down theCtrl key and click an entity to add it to or remove it from the selection.
  
  
• After selecting one entity, hold the Shift key and click another entity to select all entities in between the first and second selections.

Point and Arc Usage

• Ignore Z - means that the Z-axis location of the geometry is ignored so that you can manually set the Top of Feature and the Feature Depth in the wizard. This option is helpful when the selected geometry is not the top or bottom of the hole.
  
  
  
  
• Use as Top - means that the geometry is the Top of Feature (the top of the hole). The software calculates the toolpath using the Z-axis location of the geometry as the top.
  
  
  
  
• Use as Bottom - means that the geometry is the bottom of the feature (bottom of the hole). The software calculates the toolpath using the Z-axis location of the geometry as the bottom.
  
  

Parameters

• Tolerance - is a selection tolerance that is used in the feature detection based on the type of selections made. For most scenarios, you should not have to change this value.

Options

The Options group allows you to set particular parameters to decide what will be created for a hole feature and what will be ignored.

Minimum Hole Diameter - is the smallest hole diameter that is used for the current drilling feature. Any smaller holes will be ignored.



Maximum Hole Diameter - is the largest hole diameter that is used for the current drilling feature. Any larger holes will be ignored.



Minimum Sweep Angle - allows you to define an acceptable range for open, or partial holes. Any holes whose start and end ranges are below the specified angle will be ignored.



• Gouge check
  With this check box selected, any holes that have other surfaces in the way of their completion will be ignored.
  With this check box cleared, surfaces which may be gouged in order to complete a hole will be ignored, and the hole feature will be created.
  
  

Allow group
With this check box selected, holes with the same diameter, but different depths or heights, will be divided into separate groups inside of the same feature.
With this check box cleared, holes with the same diameter, but different depths or heights, will be kept as separate features.



• Allow split face holes
  With this check box selected, features will be created for holes made up of multiple surfaces.
  With this check box cleared, holes made up of multiple surfaces will be ignored.