Solidworks - Holes on a Curved Surface

Here's a quick tutorial on how to create holes on a curved surface without using additional sketches or sketch planes. The hole wizard allows quick creation of a 3D sketch where you can do all your hole location specification.

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• curved surface
• holes
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[BubblesANDCherryPie]

How did you get Solidworks on your mac!!!??!?! I have been struggling with bootcamp, it isn't working properly, but I see you have it on the actual Mac side. Did you parallel your system? Does it affect the speed of solidworks? Also great tutorial- Lifesaver!

[hackmancoltaire]

@BubblesANDCherryPie Yes, I use Parallels, and SolidWorks 2009 currently.

[bangzilla]

very helpful, thanks for posting this

[hackmancoltaire]

@bangzilla to fully define the sketch you can create a perpendicular relation between the lines along the z axis and the lines along the x/y axis. I missed that step when making this video.

[hackmancoltaire]

I realized I made a couple mistakes in what I was describing, but hopefully this is adequately instructive and helpful. :)

[treborrrrr]

Holy fucking thank you to put it bluntly. I've been struggling with two holes on a model for the past three hours. I finally decided to stop being stubborn with trying to figure it out myself and came here. Literally two minutes after watching this video I was done. Thank you!

[attanav]

Great video! Thanks so much! Much more efficient and elegant than creating all those planes,

[Jagsm29]

Thankyou so much. I learn more from these videos than 3 weeks of lab work.