Add the Required Drilling

General

• Drillings are library components that include the necessary machining features.
• After adding, moving or editing components, you must remember to do the machinings.
• The users can model and save their own typical drillings in the library.

Starting point

• The BLOCK component has already been added to the assembly.
  • See: Start Block Design

Add drillings

1. Select the function Add > Component.
2. Browse and select the drilling component.
   • Library: Components/Block Design/Drillings or Components/Block Design/Sun.
   • or the user's own libraries.
3. Double-click the component that you want to use.
   • The program opens the dialog box Select Component and presents the drilling dimensions.
4. Enter the dimension in the dimension table and click OK to accept the dimensions.
5. Place the component on the desired face.
   • The program will highlight the face and ask: Edge Distance: Select Element.

6. Click the edge line of the block from which you want to enter the distance.
   • The program adds the distance constraint and opens the Edit Constraint dialog box.
   • You can skip clicking the edge line with the Confirm function and enter the constraint separately later. (Confirm = V key, middle mouse button or the context-sensitive function OK.)

     

7. Enter the distance constraint and, if necessary, a name for the constraint if you want to identify the distance constraints displayed in the list by name and a formula if you want to control the position of the drilling using the dimension table.
8. Click the second edge line of the block from which you want to enter the distance.
   • The program adds the distance constraint and opens the Edit Constraint dialog box
   • You can skip clicking the edge line with the Confirm function and enter the constraint separately later. (Confirm = V key, middle mouse button or the context-sensitive function OK.)

     

9. Enter the distance constraint and, if necessary, a name for the constraint if you want to identify the distance constraints displayed in the list by name and a formula if you want to control the position of the drilling using the dimension table.
10. If you want to add a drilling of exactly the same size as the previous one, select a new place and repeat steps 5...9.
11. If you want to add the same drilling component, but with new dimensions, select Confirm and repeat steps 4...9.
12. If you want to add another drilling component, select Back when the program opens the dialog box Select Component and repeat steps 2...9.
13. Stop adding drillings
    • Select another function.
    • Press the Esc key.
14. Perform the machining by selecting the context-sensitive function Machining Features > Execute
    • If necessary, you can delete machinings by selecting the Machining Features> Delete function.