Angled hole

[John.Pryal]

Hi all, i was wondering whether it is possible to create an angled hole using the hole tool feature. I want to create a hole in the top of a cylinder on a 30mm pcr angled at 15 degrees away from the cylinder centreline. Now, i have been creating such holes for years, but have always made them using the revolve cut feature, last week i was reading this forum & somebody mentioned that an angled hole can be created using the hole tool feature, but i don't see how. Can it be done? I do not want to create additional datum planes to set this up, i like to keep my models as simple as possible with the minimum amount of features. Regards John
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[JonathanHodgson]

I'm not sure whether it can be done 'simply' within the Hole feature... but IMHO there's nothing wrong with your current solution using Revolves. Sounds like a perfectly reasonable and robust approach, and is almost certainly how I'd do it.

[RodneyDecker-di]

It can be done with a coaxial hole. You will need to create an axis at the desired angle, and create a plane normal to the axis at the surface you want to place the hole. Use this place as the surface reference for your coaxial hole. Hope this helps. Rodney WF3

[John.Pryal]

Thankyou for the replies. I realize that the hole could be created in the way you describe Rodney, but i want to avoid the creation of the extra features, ie. axis & datum plane. Regards John

[RodneyDecker-di]

"john pryal" wrote:

Thankyou for the replies. I realize that the hole could be created in the way you describe Rodney, but i want to avoid the creation of the extra features, ie. axis & datum plane. Regards John

[ptc-3094799]

John, Another approach would be to enter the coaxial hole command. After the UI for the hole pops up, then create the datums. This is called creating features "on-the-fly." The advantage of doing it this way is it buries the features within your hole command and does not add clutter to your model tree. RB 2001, WF - 2.0,3.0,4.0,5.0