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    Rherman
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    Registered: ‎04-06-2011
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    Trying to place cross dowels into multipule holes easly

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    05-03-2012 08:18 AM

     

    Hello,

     

    I am trying to place a cross dowel into multiple holes. Is there an easy way to automate this? Currently I am placing a cross dowel component and then constraining it to the hole one at a time. Quite a long process to place hundreds of them.

     

    Thanks for the help!

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    japike
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    Registered: ‎02-06-2004

    Re: Trying to place cross dowels into multipule holes easly

    05-03-2012 08:43 AM in reply to: Rherman

    Check out imates or Pattern Component using Feature Pattern Select.

    Peace,
    Jeff
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    Re: Trying to place cross dowels into multipule holes easly

    05-03-2012 09:23 AM in reply to: japike

    Or kwiksert (great addin) Not free but easily worth every penny if you do this quite often.

     

    You could also try the "assemble" workflow/dialog instead of the regular constraint dialog.

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