Newbie:hole in a cylinder

Use one of the 3 original planes, Top, Front, & Right, click one and drag it, this'll bring up a dialog box and allow you to input an offset distance. Then draw your sketch on this new plane

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You use that command but you have to use other stuff along with it. Like picking another plane, a line, a point, etc... See the help - Under the index tab type "planes" you get a long list on how to do's....

Regards, Scott

....or if you have SW2003 or newer, just pick the surface of the cylinder, and then click the Hole Wizard....

Click on the plane tool button on your reference geometry toolbar, or Insert>Reference Geometry>Plane. Then select the cylindrical face, and a plane that is 90 degrees to where you want your hole to be, it should give you a preview, and if you dont want it on the side of the cylinder that it created it on, simplyclick the Other Solutions button in the property manager that is up on the Feature manager design tree. Hope that helps

sw-pw-man

I'm wondering if the obvious is being missed here. If I understand the original issue, a circle was extruded into, say, a piece of round bar stock.. Then a hole is required to go through it for a pin, or bolt, or something.

The best method, in my opinion, is create the circle at the origin. Then the hole can be sketched on one of the system planes and extruded cut out both directions.

Sometimes newbies don't know how to ask the right questions, so it's up to us to point out the best methods and options. If I'm wrong on the initial interpretation, my humblest apologies. (deep bow)

WT

He said nonplanar surface. I took it to be the cylindrical surface.

sw-pw-man