Recognise tapped holes from Fusion 360

[DWhiteley]

You can recognise tapped hole features from Inventor. Now that we have Fusion 360 with FC, can we recognise tapped holes from Fusion. A must have in my opinion.

Dave W

[brian_p1]

I have drawn a few models with tapped holes in fusion, featurecam doesn't recognize them as tapped holes when it is exported out of fusion.

As far as I am aware only inventor files give you the option to recognize holes when model is imported, but I dont think I have ever seen it recognize a tapped hole.

[DWhiteley]

Thanks Brian

I hope Autodesk read these posts, as what is the point of packaging Fusion 360 with FeatureCAM if we can’t send thread features across. It must be possible as we can export/import ShapeManager files.

Frustrating!

[Anonymous]

hi,

yes F360 can recognise by himself tapped holes  if the ID  are ok for tapping hole and they should appear in thread type collumn and you can chose the dimension by youself

regards

[kelbie.ockey]

I actually spoke to Product Management about this to understand the issue a bit clearer. It turns out, that this is actually due to how holes are handled on the Fusion side. The way that the tapped data is assigned to the hole is different from how INV and SW do the same. 

This is something that the Fusion development team is aware of, and I hope to have a solution to it in the near future. 

I appreciate you bringing this to our attention, and would strongly encourage all of you reading this to continue submitting cases or forum posts regarding any sort of bugs or missing functionality that you would like to see. One of the primary drivers of new software development is actually you - the users. The more users that want a given enhancement in the software, the easier it is for our development team to justify moving that enhancement to the front of the list. Your feedback goes a really long way in making sure we are putting out excellent products, so keep it up!

Let me know if you have any other questions, or if I can help clarify anything regarding this issue. 

[brian_p1]

Hi Richard,

Good to see that fusion can recognize tapped holes but the original question was could featurecam recognize tapped holes from a fusion model, hopefully in the future this will be addressed as it would speed up programming.

[DWhiteley]

I do hope that this is being looked at with the greatest of urgency.

[kelbie.ockey]

I passed this along to project management. They were aware of this shortcoming (on the Fusion side of things), and have been in contact with the fusion team.

If you would like to submit this to an idea station to bump the priority even further (community engagement goes a long way to prioritize something!), I would recommend submitting to the Fusion Idea Station, as this is, unfortunately, a problem that needs to be solved in the Fusion modeling environment. 

Above all, thanks for your engagement! In many ways, a product is as good as its community, and your engagement helps drive our products every day. 

[DWhiteley]

For some reason I cannot post to the Fusion Ideastation as it is now read-only and archived?

[Anonymous]

Hi @DWhiteley,

As I remember are there a addin the can recognise tapped holes from the hole diameter.

[kelbie.ockey]

@Anonymous You're totally right. It looks like it is called tapped hole recognition by tap drill diameter.bas.

From header of the add-in: 

Creates tapped hole features during hole feature recognition if the recognized diameter is a tap drill size. It also sets TPI based on tap drill size.

I recommend experimenting with that, and letting us know what you think. If you open the add-in it seems pretty easy to edit if you'd like to modify or add new standard tapped holes. 

Not the exact solution we would ultimately want in your specific use-case, but while this is being worked on by development, this looks like a very promising work-around. 

[ChristopherMarion]

@kelbie.ockey @Anonymous 

The add-in works great and it is very simple to use.  I use it all the time!

As long as your models have standardized minor diameter tap hole sizes, AFR or IFR will pick them up and treat them as a tapped hole rather than a plain hole.

Open the add-in with WinWrap.  It is easy to follow and very easy to edit.  Highly recommend this one.