Another Newbie question

Stephen,

One simple solution (of many possible ways) is to create the cylinder as a revolve instead of an extrude. This has the advantage of giving you a sketch that you can hang construction lines/points off to create your hole plane. It is much more robust to make incontext relationships to sketches rather than features.

Merry :-)

the holes are always the same distance from the end, no matter what the cylinder length. That is, if I understand you correctly.

-Dennis

Maybe I'm missing something, but the simplest to me is create the cylinder as 2 circles and extrude - normal procedure. Then looking at it from the side, sketch the top & bottom hole on the center plane, dimension each from its respective end and extrude cut out one direction through all. Then create the circular pattern to put in the rest of the holes. I tried it and it worked just fine - am I missing something??

WT