drawing holes

[Marty A]

i have to draw around 300 tap holes in a 38.0 by 90.0 plate. the holes will be equaly spaced so i don't have a problem there. my question is this, i drew my first row of holes, now is there a way i can duplicate the row i drew instead of having to draw all 300 holes? there is 10 holes in each line x 30 lines. again i thank you in advance.

 

marty

[mayday]

if they are a pattern dont even draw them.

use toolpath transform

[Brendan P]

X-form/translate in a rectangular direction.

use copy by how many times you need to duplicate.

[Marty A]

hey may^day

 

i never tried that before but i will try it right now. thanks for your quick response. have a good day.

 

marty

[Marty A]

oops i replied to soon. thank you to bucket head i will let ya know how it goes.

[Marty A]

thank you guys i just learned something new. thanks again

 

 

marty

[Scott Bond]

Hi this may not work

for this for you this

time but look at a

Chook called

"Gridpock"

It will be more work to read

all the options, than to just

do what you are already doing,

but bif the shape was a four

leaf clover, this would be the

feature.

 

[ 09-03-2003, 12:39 PM: Message edited by: Scott Bond ]

[Marty A]

hi scott

thanks i will look at it and play around a little seeing as i have time on my hands now. this is when i can learn more things. thanks again

 

marty

[crazy^millman]

Hey motty that slo works in any c-plane you are in. So if are in side, bottom, front, etc... it wil work the same way. just have to remeber unless you are in 3-d c-plane you will flip the axis of input ie if in front then it is x,z if in side it is y,z and so on and so on. The real trick is if on the back the the effect is the oppsite of what you type so the cordinate system reverses also. Same as with any oppsite of what you are sue to. It can also be dont from any place in space if you set the c-plane and the z0 to the place you are working. If you just pick a construction plane but do not put z0 realtive to that place it will put all drawn thing in a z0 relative to that postion. I am not talking about the origin I am talking about the z reference on the left side of the screen. Yuo origin and wcs all stay the same just imagine being in psace 100 miles above the earth. Home is still home just working at a reative distance to what you are doing at 100 miles in space is all. Imagine how much math it would be to do all of that realative to home vesre being able to make you are doing right there be realtive to itself.

 

Well just my 2 cents worth.

 

look at this thread there are some explaintions of WCS. WCS Topic

 

Crazy Millman

[Marty A]

thanks millman i'm still learning this stuff and like i said when i'm slow that's when i can start fooling around with this. but i only do 2d now so i'm way under all of you. have a good day

 

marty

[iowajim62]

Hi motty,

 

You could use Create,Point,Next Menu,Grid.

Fill in the data and use these points for your tap hole locations. Just a little quicker to me.

[Marty A]

hi iowajim

 

thanks i used the xform translate for my holes. i will try all the other ways for practice though. thank you for your reply. have a good day

 

 

marty