featured based drilling

[TERRYH]

 I am doing a cast alum. cooling buck that gets several 3/8 holes in the top to help with cooling the part after it is formed, being new to 2019 and not knowing all the new features yet is it possible to use feature based drilling for something like this? The holes are on a contoured surface.

[TERRYH]

Tried using FBM drill on this and it took quite awhile but it did work, but not sure if I did something wrong or not because there are 192 holes just 3/8 thru holes it spotted them and drilled them, but it created a individual program for each hole and I had to sit here hitting OK for the names on every hole twice. Huge pain in the azz and it did take a very long time for detection and creating and the name thing. I did set the hole min/max diameter to 3/8 trying to make it faster. Is this the way it works or or is there something I missed that would greatly speed it up, all the videos I seen it looked fast and efficient, and there was 1 tool path for each tool not 192 for the spot drill and 192 for the drill. 

[JCo]

FBM drill could get it done.  Prodrill would get it done much easier and better.  Using none of that and just using model-prep - Hole axis is by far the easiest and cheapest answer.  This part is too simple to bother with anything else imo.

[TERRYH]

We are getting Pro drill just not sure when was supposed to have it already. And yes I did it with the Model pre and hole axis and had it done in about 2 mins. 

[Del.]

Just curious. Does Mastercam not have the ability to recognize hole features by windowing part and setting all those holes to a group?

[BrianP.]

49 minutes ago, Del. said:

Just curious. Does Mastercam not have the ability to recognize hole features by windowing part and setting all those holes to a group?

There are a couple of different ways to sort or select holes by size. The c-hook sort circles will actually grab them by size give them all a separate color and move each size to it's own level. So the answer is yes.

[Del.]

19 minutes ago, BrianP. said:

There are a couple of different ways to sort or select holes by size. The c-hook sort circles will actually grab them by size give them all a separate color and move each size to it's own level. So the answer is yes.

Depths also I assume?