Vertical Holes

[Artman2013]

 How do i insert holes on a vertical pane of steel.

Command used:

Advance steel tool palette > Features > [circular hole function]

[markhubrich]

You have to set your UCS perpendicular to the plate or beam surface you want holes added to.

[Jonathan.Jasinski]

Another finer point:  There is a difference in how AS handles "Holes" vs. "Circular Contours".  Holes are meant to be used when the fabricator is going to drill out a hole.  Usually for a bolt, screw, etc.  The contour is when it is going to be made using either CNC or cutting torch of some kind.

Always keep in mind how the fabricator is intending to make the part/assembly.

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

As Mark says the UCS is important and well shown in his screencast, however using the tool palette requires selecting the correct hole tool. The plate section for holes, polygon and beam contours is the lower section (boxed in red below). The tools are self evident and check the command line for instructions.

Gary

[markhubrich]

You can do some pretty crazy stuff with those tools @Anonymous outlined. The one I use the most is the Polygon Contour. 

I used it to do all the architectural cuts in these canopy panels.  

 

[Artman2013]

Hi Mark, thanks for the response.

The issue I'm struggling to achieve is creating NC outputs for plates like shown in Wanted Result.jpeg. Having read the other replies, I can confirm it is 'holes' that I'm needing to insert.

The steel in use in this instance is a piece of UAngle. The holes will be used for bolting to a future connection.

WR was created by rotating the object so that the vertical face was flat, and thus the 'circular contour' tool could be applied. This being an alternative to your posted method. The trouble arises when I try to create NC outputs, which fail to produce the vertical holes.