Hole Wizard

Cannot use negative values as you have discovered. There has been some discussions regarding negative dimension values going back a couple of months. I just tried creating a tapped hole using offset and it will not allow me to select a plane or surface.

Kman

You can apply the hole and then edit the sketch but do not delete the dimensions. You can make them driven though and drag the lines they control until it is going the right direction. Then you have to invert the drill point also. (this was for a simple hole I don't know what complications you run into using Tapped hole and what not.) Once you have manually flipped it you can edit the hole back to what you want using the wizard.

Probably more work than it is worth but it is a possibility.

Corey

I've never used the hole wizard, but in a normal extrude you just check "Reverse offset" to change the direction of the offset.

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems

You *can* use negative dimensions for limit mates and for the Copy/Move bodies function. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, for Copy/Move it is the

Jim S.

To be honest, I do not use limit mates and seldom copy/move in my work. Maybe I should be and don't know it?

Thanks, Kman

Not really. I wsa just pointing out what I feel is a SW inconsistency. There is no reason that these two functions require negative values, yet they are allowed. In places where you would like to have negative values, you cannot. It can be aggravating.

Jim S.

It's the same with section views. If you don't drag the section plane, you have to use negative values to get to the other side. SolidWorks: consistently inconsistent!

Jerry Steiger Tripod Data Systems