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DKDaniel Krempel23/11/2011

Hello all.

I am attempting to revise some of our hole callouts by customizing calloutformat.txt.  Below is my example block.

holesamplepart.jpg

Here is what I have changed in the calloutformat.txt

TAP-BLIND=;\

     <hw-threadsize> <hw-threadseries> <hw-threadclass> <HOLE-DEPTH> <hw-threaddepth>

*drilled and tapped thru*

TAP-THRU(tt)=;\

   <hw-threadsize> <hw-threadseries> <hw-threadclass> THRU

*with cosmetic thread and drilled and tapped thru*

TAP-DRILLTHRU(cstt)=;\

   <hw-threadsize> <hw-threadseries> <hw-threadclass> THRU

*drilled thru but with blind threads*

TAP-DRILLTHRU=DRILL SIZE <hw-thru>;\

     <hw-threadsize> <hw-threadseries> <hw-threadclass> <HOLE-DEPTH> <hw-threaddepth>

*with cosmetic thread*

TAP-DRILLTHRU(ct)=DRILL SIZE <hw-thru>;\

     <hw-threadsize> <hw-threadseries> <hw-threadclass> <HOLE-DEPTH> <hw-threaddepth>

Here is the result. The hole on the left is technically a "with cosmetic thread drilled and tapped thru", but is being labled the same as the "drilled thru but with blind threads".  It gets by for now, but if the thread is 'thru' then obviously so is the tap drill size

holesampledrawing.jpg

I also find this suspicious

TAP-DRILLTHRU(cstt)=;\

This is copied from the original calloutformat.txt.  In other holes, "CS" means countersink, and "CT" means cosmetic thread.  But changing CS to CT doesn't fix my issue.  It still labels the left hole as "drill size thru"

Maybe someone more experienced with calloutformat.txt could have a look at the code above.