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What is DeleteHole ?

Question asked by Howard Gledhill on Jun 30, 2008
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I have very limited experience with surfacing. I'm trying to duplicate the steps of a similar part file and I'm stuck on DeleteHole in the design tree.

I can't figure out how to do the same thing. Thank you.

Charles Culp Jun 30, 2008 7:26 PM

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Delete Hole is a goober. I don't know how else to say it. It is a feature that you can only create by clicking on the edge of the hole, and pressing the delete key (as far as I know).

To do the exact same thing using a more typical tool, try "surface-untrim"

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Charles Culp Jun 30, 2008 7:26 PM
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Delete Hole is a goober. I don't know how else to say it. It is a feature that you can only create by clicking on the edge of the hole, and pressing the delete key (as far as I know).

To do the exact same thing using a more typical tool, try "surface-untrim"
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Jerry Steiger Jun 30, 2008 7:28 PM
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Howard,

If you have a hole that you don't want to have in your surface, you can pick an edge of the hole and hit the delete key. That will bring up a menu that gives you the option to "Delete Feature" or "Delete Hole(s)". If you pick the latter and SW can figure it out, it will delete the hole leaving you with a nice unblemished surface.
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- Jerry Steiger @ Jerry Steiger on Jun 30, 2008 7:37 PM
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  Howard,
  
  Sorry for the repetition. Charles got his answer in while I was typing mine. I guess there is a reason he has over 1500 posts!
  
  As Charles says, Surface Untrim will get you very similar results, but you have to try some stuff out to see how to get the most out of it. It's not obvious from the menu that you can select individual edges that you want to untrim. That would be how you could delete just one of multiple holes in a surface, or untrim just one edge instead of all internal or external edges.
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- Howard Gledhill @ Jerry Steiger on Jun 30, 2008 8:07 PM
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  Thank you Charles & Jerry. The surface with the hole was created 0 offset from a solid so I had difficulty selecting the surface edge so I cheated. I set the off-set distance to 6, deleted the hole as you instructed, and finaly reset the offset distance to 0.
  
  You guys are allways there to help out. I only hope that some day I can do the same for someone else.
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  - Matt Lombard @ Howard Gledhill on Jun 30, 2008 10:39 PM
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    An easier way to access the edges of the surface might be to hide the solid body. Just RMB on a face of the solid and select Hide Body, or do it from the solid body folder at the top of the FeatureManager.
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    - Howard Gledhill @ Matt Lombard on Jul 1, 2008 11:44 AM
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      Thanks Matt. Why didn't I think of that? It took me a few minutes to show it after hiding it!!
      
      I tried out the watering can tutorial. Mine looks more like Jethroe & Ellie May played kick the can with it, but I haven't given up yet. It might be time to buy your book.
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Ben Shaw Aug 23, 2008 12:49 AM
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If you need to get rid of more than one hole just edit the feature created by deleting the original hole and then you can add more.
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