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PMPamela Miles26/10/2012

I'm trying to use hole wizard to create a threaded hole on a cylindrical surface but it keeps saying it can't create one due to it being located on edge geometry (or something to that effect).

I created a plane tangent to the surface and perpendicular to the hole (as it is to be placed).  I have a sketch that precisely locates the center of the hole.  I can snap right to it and the orientation is perfect, but hole wizard won't create it.  If I move hole wizard off the construction geometry, it does it just fine.  I've tried using planes, axis, points, construction geometry and they all fail for the same reason.  Remove them, it works... only I cannot precisely place the hole without something to snap to.  The construction geometry is on it's own sketch.  I'm only using the plane to orient perpendicular to the face.

Picture a 3" cylinder, 1" thick.  I'm trying to place a .25" hole 9 degrees from 0 and .125" from the top edge of the side.  For some reason it refuses to execute the command if there is any reference geometry there.  It doesn't have this issue with planar surfaces, just non-planar surfaces.  Extruded cut works, but then it's not detailing it as a threaded drill hole.

Any ideas?  Or is there another way to place the hole that I am not thinking of?