Hello,
I am having trouble figuring out how can I make a hole through à cylinder that I made by drawing a circle and extruding it.
Cant seem to find the right sketch to edit...
Here is my cylinder, I want to make a hole on the round surface.
Thanks!
Good question! Hopefully I understand correctly what you are trying to do.
The best way to do this is to draw a sketch on your plane that is hopefully centered on your tube. Then you can just extrude-cut through the tube.
If that's not possible, I've also used planes tangent to the outer surface of the tube and extrude-cut into the tube.
Hopefully this helps!
It depends on how you located the extrude. Assuming it's symmetrical about two planes (with two planes intersecting on the axis of the cylinder, which is how I would have done it), you can create the hole sketch on one of these planes and extrude cut out from this plane instead of placing the sketch on the outside of the cylinder and having the cut going toward the inside.
If your cylinder isn't symmetrical about the planes, or if it is but the hole won't be perpendicular to one of them, then you could create a sketch on one end of your cylinder, with a point (or the endpoint of a line) on the outside face of the cylinder located along the line of where you want the hole. Then close this sketch and create a new plane coincident with this point and tangent to the face of the cylinder, and then create your hole sketch on this plane.
If this isn't clear let me know and I'll post some screenshots.
use the hole wizard and very simple relations works well. All you do is select the cyliders face and it will put a hole that is perpendicular to that face. then simply lock its location by creating an "On plane relation" to the point for the hole to a plane. then just locate the hole from where ever you need.
