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"No hole to drill" on selected hole
The body in this project is a cut-out from a larger piece. I was selecting several holes of the same diameter but this particular one was not included in the generated toolpath.
When selected alone, no toolpath was generated either. It looks like something is wrong with the way the hole is modeled. Or there is a bug in Fusion. Or both.
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Interesting.. It works when you orientate the tool to the hole but when I outputted it to the NC file it didn't change the angle of the machine so the hole appears to be perpendicular to the face
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Creating some Planes and using the Measure tool, we can see that along one axis, we are not actually perfect 90 degree to the face:
This is why "Tool Orientation" is working.
I have encountered 3 or 4 of such instances over the last few weeks. I'm starting to suspect that there is something going amiss in some area of the software. This is purely circumstantial at this point. Can you (privately) share the original model? Was it modeled in Fusion, or imported from another software?

Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing
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Seth, you are spot on as usual with this one, the hole is not at 90 deg to the top face, I just deleted the original hole created a new one from the top face of the block and it is OK as well.
Maybe as you suggest imported from elsewhere ??
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Regards
Rob
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Well, it's certainly starting to get my curiosity. The first time I encountered this, I wrote it off as PEBKAC. Second time, less so. This is the 4th instance of this exact issue in the last 5 weeks, so it's either a really peculiar coincidence, or there's something afoot.

Seth Madore
Customer Advocacy Manager - Manufacturing
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It must have something to do with the plane that is being used to create the hole, little experiment, I created another hole in the block and as before it works fine, now, selecting "same diameter" the bad hole is now selected as well so that would in effect be using the "diameter range" which we already know works OK.
How can the original hole be created at an angle from either the top or bottom faces is a mystery, as I am not able to replicate the issue here on any random existing files I have or any new ones I would have to suspect an issue with the OPs Fusion setup, another thing that happens is if I use the Tool Orientation to select the Z direction using the Hole Face then again it works OK, possibly a sketch is being used to extrude the hole, I`ve tried that but still am not able to replicate the issue, I always use the "Hole" in solid method and I have never come across this !!
It is like there is a "Draft" angle on that face somehow ???
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Regards
Rob
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Just an update, I was able to replicate the issue by creating a sketch and deliberately placing it at a very small angle using the Rotate and selecting one edge as the rotational axis, then extruding the hole from the sketch and found that the Hole Face could not be used but Diameter and Point works so from that it does sound like this is being caused by "dodgy" sketches.
Just for fun I tried to extrude a surface using the "press pull" and got a really weird result
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Moral of the story, create holes in the solid and not from sketches would seem to be the safest way ![]()
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Regards
Rob
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dismissed as a fluke and fixed by deleting the feature and recreating it.
Unfortunately I don't remember which file it was to check the original for
clues.
These are STEP files received from customers. This particular one seems to
be created with Creo Elements/Direct Modeling 20.1A
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Just as an experiment here is a .step file from a different Cad-CAM software, see if the holes are selectable OK in your Fusion, if this works OK then it isn`t just any/all .step files, just the ones from your customer ![]()
Maybe you can ask him to send you and .IGES format of the same Model, that may work better, they are usually better than the .step files.
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Rob
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