i think i figured this out...i:
1) deleted the hole table from the drawing
2) ordered the holes in the part's feature mgr tree, the way i wanted them, alphabetically
3) re-inserted the hole table into the drawing
so far, so good...it was helpful to me to rename the holes in the feature-manager tree to the Letter name that was originally on the dwg.
i am happy now; i was pretty hacked off when i deleted a hole labeled "E" and the table renamed the series to "K", the next letter in the sequence!
I've run into this same issue. Yes, every hole is labeled, but not in a very organized way.
For example, I've got two linear rails side by side. There's many holes along the rail. The table will organize them up/down then left/right.
If I have two rails, this is how SW numbers them, assuming my origin is lower left:
2-4-6-8
1-3-5-7
How I'd like to label them:
1-2-3-4
5-6-7-8
Are there any other resequencing methods you might need? Do you need manual control? (Questions for for anyone)
Our company prefers to "combine same sizes" and if there was a way to reoganize the sequence, much like you can do with the assembly BOM, that'd be perfect! We're currently using 2013.
Hole Tables are my only complaint about Solidworks. The program itself is unbelievably intuitive... until you get to dealing with hole tables. Coming from Autocad where hole tables were easy to customize, resequence and even export to an excel file to be used for inspection programs, I am constantly vexed by the inability to have virtually no control with Solidworks' Hole Tables. This is at the top of my list of things that I would change about Solidworks, and also the only reason that I continue to have Autocad on my computer.
I changed hole type but wanted to keep holes in the same label P1 thru P4. I tried RMB "renumber series" but all it did was renumber the first hole. Any clues?
Thanks,
Rob
This is a good one for the If you were in charge of SolidWorks, what would you change with Annotations? discussion.
A while back I had to re-dimension a drawing with many holes in it. I used a hole table and the order I needed was a clockwise (or counter-clockwise) fashion around the edge of the part.
Manual control would be nice. If I had a way to specify a (counter/)clockwise direction from a specified center point or something, that would be nice also. It would also be best if I could control it regardless of whether the hole table had holes combined (with some limitations of course).
Hello, this is years too late but I have a work around for this problem.
In SW 2016 this work around works. It is not pretty but if you need your holes in a specific order it works.
Thanks Michael, you helped me!
Michael, I have been applying the same technique. It is certainly cumbersome but does work quite well. The only problem is if you need to use a hole table with multiple views; because if you do not specify the views up front, then you cannot add them later (or I am not aware of how).
For anyone trying to understand why some of us would like to implement a hole table ordering function (with tags that are reassigned), I offer the following scenario as an example. Old drawings (either old Solidworks files with excel tables, or circa 1970 manually drafted prints) have previously defined hole tables. If I were to revise one of those drawings, my preference would be to retain the same order of hole tags. Keeping the same order allows for easy comparison of drawings. Also, a machine shop may have production notes or programs based on these hole table tags.
In short: Adding this functionality would be greatly appreciated.
More thanks Michael, this was very helpful information..
Hope one of these helps get the table ordered to your liking.