5 Replies Latest reply on Jul 29, 2015 3:24 PM by Lukas Fischer

Hole Table: Coordinates of holes located on a curve

Lukas Fischer Jul 28, 2015 5:12 PM

Hello,

I need to know the x and y coordinates of holes located on a curve. The holes are created with a curve driven pattern.

I cannot export the x and y coordinate from a sideview into the hole table.

From a topview I cannot export the first two x coordinates but the rest afterwards can be exported. I am not sure if the hole location is accurate enough, due to the warning message. (images attached)

I appreciate any help.

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coordinates cruves hole table sideview.png 13.0 KB

Re: Hole Table: Coordinates of holes located on a curve

Dennis Bacon Jul 28, 2015 6:39 PM (in response to Lukas Fischer)

Lukas, I made the hole center points visible and did a standard ordinate dimension to them. The did a hole table so I could see how much the dimensions varied. Maybe you can get some ideas from this.
Edit:.. Just for the heck of it a did a curve driven pattern.
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  Lukas Fischer Jul 28, 2015 6:44 PM (in response to Dennis Bacon)
  
  Hi Dennis,
  
  thank you for your answer. How did you make the center points visible? Solidworks does not recognize the center of the hole, so I would have to eyeball the center. In your example I would be interested in the x and the z coordinate(not shown). The y coordinate is constant in my case. I have over 100 hole locations to determine.
  
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    Dennis Bacon Jul 28, 2015 7:02 PM (in response to Lukas Fischer)
    
    Eeww.. (or something like that). For the curve driven I placed a reference point (in my model) at the center face of each hole (not necessary for seed hole) (maybe pattern see only gonna have to try that) then started a 3d sketch and placed a point on each reference point then made an "on-surface" relation to each point. In the feature manager of the drawing I found the relative 3d sketch and unhid it.
    
    I'm going to work on making this a bit simpler for over 100 holes.
    
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      Lukas Fischer Jul 29, 2015 1:30 PM (in response to Dennis Bacon)
      
      I created a line and added a concentric relation with the inside of the hole(face), then added the on-surface relation with the top point. When I unhid this sketch in the drawing I can click on the point and it tells me the x,y,z coordinates in the status bar with respect to the origin of the part. I could manually create a table with this information.
      Is there a way to create a "vortex or point" table?
      
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        Lukas Fischer Jul 29, 2015 3:24 PM (in response to Lukas Fischer)
        
        With the method shown in the listed video you can extract the xyz coordinates from a 3-D sketch. I tried it. It is noteworthy that the order of the points listed in the table depends on the order you made the points in your sketch. Create an extra point in the beginning coincides with the reference location you want to have. When the table is created you can subtract the point coordinates from all the other coordinates to have to correct location.
        
        Extracting XYZ Point Data - YouTube
        
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