I would be interested to hear from the audience how they deal with dimensioning/annotating holes on drawings. I have foundfour options, none of which seem very elegant.
1) Show the hole note from the model in the drawing. This works well for tapped holes as the default hole note takes care of metric and unified threads. However, for clearance holes, I would rather see the actual hole diameter instead of the tapped hole referenced and "CLEAR" added to the end.
&METRIC_SIZE &THREAD_SERIES-&THREAD_CLASS &STD_HOLE_TYPE &VAR_THREAD &THREAD_DEPTH[.2]
2) Go into the *.hol file and see the parameter namesused for the particular hole features (CLOSE_DEC, CBOREDIAM, etc.) and manually add them into the model hole note properties. This allows the note to be shown in the drawing, but if I change from a counterbore hole to a countersink hole, or from a close to free fit clearance hole, I again have to manually modify the model hole note.
3)Show the model dimensions or create reference dimensions in the drawing that are related to the hole. Then, determine the &d or &ad parameters for these dimensions, and then type them into a singledimension used to define the hole.
4) Forget about using the hole command altogetherand use chamfers for countersink holes and additional extrude features for conterbore holes and use techniques mentioned in item 3) above to get the holes dimensioned on the drawing.
I guess ideally I would like to have a text file with parameters/logic built into itto identify the type of hole and dimensions required that could be used to replace the default hole note generated my Pro/E.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
-Mark
1) Show the hole note from the model in the drawing. This works well for tapped holes as the default hole note takes care of metric and unified threads. However, for clearance holes, I would rather see the actual hole diameter instead of the tapped hole referenced and "CLEAR" added to the end.
&METRIC_SIZE &THREAD_SERIES-&THREAD_CLASS &STD_HOLE_TYPE &VAR_THREAD &THREAD_DEPTH[.2]
2) Go into the *.hol file and see the parameter namesused for the particular hole features (CLOSE_DEC, CBOREDIAM, etc.) and manually add them into the model hole note properties. This allows the note to be shown in the drawing, but if I change from a counterbore hole to a countersink hole, or from a close to free fit clearance hole, I again have to manually modify the model hole note.
3)Show the model dimensions or create reference dimensions in the drawing that are related to the hole. Then, determine the &d or &ad parameters for these dimensions, and then type them into a singledimension used to define the hole.
4) Forget about using the hole command altogetherand use chamfers for countersink holes and additional extrude features for conterbore holes and use techniques mentioned in item 3) above to get the holes dimensioned on the drawing.
I guess ideally I would like to have a text file with parameters/logic built into itto identify the type of hole and dimensions required that could be used to replace the default hole note generated my Pro/E.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
-Mark