topic Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL) in Inventor Forum

SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

Jeff_Moss — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 14:36:56 GMT

Are there already SAE spec hydraulic hole ports in Inventor 2024? I just upgraded from 2022 and don't see 'em yet. Maybe I don't know where to look, but I REALLY don't want to have to set this up as a custom hole/pocket.

I'm dragging and dropping a hole-pocket spec sheet for all the SAE hydraulic fitting holes.

This'd be immensely helpful...and I'm told that Brand-X already HAS it...

Jeff

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

johnsonshiue — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 21:56:19 GMT

Hi! I could be wrong but I don't think the specific feature is available in Inventor unfortunately.

Many thanks!

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

Frederick_Law — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 21:59:10 GMT

Make your own iFeature

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

tlebrun — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 14:39:29 GMT

Fred,

Is there a way to add the ifeature to a diameter? I have a work plane on the outer diameter of a cylinder, with a sketch, but, no matter what i do, it can't build the feature.

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

Frederick_Law — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:23:03 GMT

Yes.

What are you trying to build?

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

tlebrun — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:39:47 GMT

sae port

We use SAE ports all the time, and I just discovered today about the custom ifeature. I tried to use it but it just doesn't want to work with cylinders. Currently we just create a tapped spotface hole, then add the chamfers. I can add the ifeature easily to any flat surface but not on a work plane tangent to a cylinder.

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

Frederick_Law — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 15:58:02 GMT

Might need different iFeature for flat and cylinder.

It'll depends on the first feature.

Depends on cylinder diameter, the flat will need different depth.

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

tlebrun — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 16:41:18 GMT

I could add the spotface, and add the ifeature to it, but that would defeat the purpose of simplifying the task.

Kind-of silly ifeatures don't work on cylinders. Hopefully the SAE hole be added to a future revision of Inventor.

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

Frederick_Law — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 19:57:47 GMT

It should be doable.

A simple extrude cut iFeature on cylinder.

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

Jeff_Moss — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:20:45 GMT

I agree it should be doable...even on cylinders. BUT...my point is: "Autodesk ought to wake up and make this functionality available to us."

I do hydraulic ports as an OCCASIONAL design feature. It makes no sense whatever for me to spend the inordinate amount of time relearning the i-feature process to create such a widely-used feature creation tool. I'm not the only soul who designs machines that OCCASIONALLY have hydraulic subsystems. I have 2.8 engineers here where I work, and we keep ALL our product design work done for a job-shop-organized effort to ship machines from four widely-divergent product-lines worldwide.

I'll eventually cave and DO it, but I don't WANT to. Seriously, why do I have to do Autodesk's job on MY weekends, evenings and mornings?

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

Frederick_Law — Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:28:51 GMT

There was no reason to model it. All was required was a note saying "-8 SAE o-ring port".

Anyway, I tested my SAE port iFeature and it works LOL.

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

claudio.ibarra — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:28:42 GMT

I came across this thread looking for a better way to add SAE ports to parts.

Where I work, we have .ide for SAE iFeatures, but there's a glaring problem --- putting it in a welded component. iFeatures don't play in assemblies. So we have to try and put the feature in the part level and take steps to hide it.

Is it a herculean effort to add SAE to the holes.xls file?

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

hollypapp65 — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:31:01 GMT

@claudio.ibarra wrote:

Is it a herculean effort to add SAE to the holes.xls file?

Yes.

ModelState could hide the SAE port.

Or convert assembly into Weldment.

Re: SAEJ926 HOLE (ET AL)

claudio.ibarra — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 20:56:54 GMT

Wait, do iFeatures work in Weldment assemblies? I thought they only work in .ipt files, because .iam features are restricted to things that remove material, and iFeatures can theoretically add material.

Why is modifying the holes.xls file a herculean (or sisyphean) effort? Autodesk, make it easy! I came here looking for a way to make a modification so I can have counterbore holes with and without high-collar lockwashers, but it's easier to provide everyone with a PDF cheat-sheet at their desks. That shouldn't be the case in the 21st century!