Hole double detection

[beanbag]

I usually import an iges part, in which the holes are made of two hemispheres. Thus when I use the hole detection for drilling, it double detects the holes. Is there a way to get SC to either single detect the holes, or a way to bulk "combine curves" to make closed circles? I have a part with 100 holes, and it would be a pain to combine the curves individually.

[Gerry Sweetland]

Choose Hole Operation then job assignment then double left click on one of the faces of one of the holes SC will recognize all the holes in the model that are that same size. Then choose center under job assignment.
Gerry

[TXFred]

I've gotta try Gerry's method next time I make something. I've been doing it a different way.

I use the Recognize button under Job Assignment. That will open a popup window which will list all the holes on the part. It takes a minute to open, so be patient.

Once it's open, you can specify minimum and maximum diameters, and it will show you all holes that fall within that range. That's useful if you need to work with a range of hole sizes.

You can arrow down through the list, and use the spacebar to select or deselect specific holes.

One downside to this method is that it stores the holes as XYZ coordinates, which are not linked to the model. So if you move the model in Sprutcam, the holes won't update.

Frederic