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Practice exercise

In this exercise, you'll practice how to create drilling operations in various locations on the provided dataset.

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Transcript

00:01

This is a practice exercise video solution.

00:07

For this practice, we will be using the FSAE upright.F3D.

00:12

In manufacture, we have OP1 and a lot of toolpaths already created.

00:16

Now we want to go in and we want to create the drilling operations that are located around the part.

00:22

We have an 8 mm hole, and we have two 6 mm holes.

00:26

So to get started, I'm going to go into drill.

00:30

I'm going to select the appropriate drill size, and I'll do this by going into the sample tools metric,

00:36

looking for hole making specifically for drill bits.

00:40

And then we want to use a 6 mm and an 8 mm drill bit.

00:44

So as we go through the list, we will scroll down until we find 6 mm to start.

00:49

We're going to be using it for aluminium drilling.

00:52

And then we need to go to our geometry tab and start by selecting our tool orientation.

00:58

The first 6 mm hole is going to be over here.

01:00

So I'm going to select this end face to set my coordinate system.

01:05

Notice Z X and Y rotate.

01:08

If we deselect this, I want to make sure we understand exactly how everything is rotating.

01:13

When we select Z, it's flipping the Y over.

01:17

So I'm going to flip the Z axis and flip the X axis.

01:22

Making sure that the orientation that we're going from and to is just rotating about one axis.

01:29

From here, we need to select the whole position, and we're going to be drilling all the way through the bottom.

01:34

So I'm going to go to a specific selected face, and I'm going to grab this bottom face.

01:42

Notice when I do that, I have no preview on the screen.

01:45

So instead of selecting the whole faces, we can do selected points.

01:50

We go and rotate around, and we select the bottom here.

01:53

Now we get the preview on the screen, showing us exactly where we're drilling.

01:58

We have to remember that all the stock is still in the middle here, and we're only drilling this bottom portion in the preview.

02:04

So for our heights, we need to make sure that the top of the part is not the whole top but rather a selection.

02:11

This way it's going to be drilling that hole section and making sure that we go all the way through the bottom.

02:17

I'm going to say drill tip through bottom and add an additional positive offset of .06.

02:23

I'm going to say 'okay' and because I want to use that same drill bit, I'm going to right click on drill one, and I'm going to duplicate it.

02:31

On my duplicate operation, we will select Edit.

02:34

We're going to rotate around, resetting our whole position and our coordinate system.

02:40

So we're going to deselect the face option for Z, and this time we're going to select this face.

02:45

Once again we want to make sure we note the orientation of the coordinate system.

02:49

We've rotated about X and about Y.

02:54

Next we want to make sure that we select the whole position.

02:58

And again in this case, we want to make sure that we select the bottom.

03:01

But note in this instance that we don't have a clean selection for the whole bottom.

03:06

So I'm going to select the whole top.

03:09

Then I need to go to my heights and select the starting and ending position.

03:14

In this case instead of whole bottom, I'm going to go to a selection, and I'm going to make it come all the way down to this edge.

03:21

For my starting position, we're going to go from a selection.

03:25

We want to clear our selection, and we want to select the top of this face.

03:31

Right now we're not doing any peck drilling operations.

03:34

We are simply drilling all the way through and noting that the pockets have not been cleared yet.

03:38

This is going to make sure that the drill bit doesn't wander as we drill through this geometry,

03:43

and it'll have a small cavity when we go in to clear out those pockets.

03:47

Last we have an 8 mm hole.

03:49

I'm going to duplicate this operation one more time.

03:54

And in the duplicate, we're going to change the tool and the coordinate system, so we'll select.

03:60

Once again, we'll go into the sample tools metric under hole making and drilling.

04:05

And we're going to search for an 8 mm drill bit.

04:09

Once we find our 8 mm drill bit, we then want to go to our geometry,

04:14

clear our selected point and clear our coordinate system.

04:18

We're going to reset Z, noting that we want to make sure that we understand how Z rotates.

04:26

In this case, if we want to flip X or Y, we can simply check the preview on the screen to make sure the orientation is correct.

04:33

For our hole point, we will select the bottom of the hole.

04:36

And once again we need to alter our selections for the top and for the bottom of the hole.

04:47

Then we're going to make sure that we are offsetting, and we can select 'okay'.

04:52

If we zoom back out to top, you can see that we have our first position drilling, our second position drilling and our third position drilling.

05:00

I'm going to go back to a home view and save this before moving on.

Video transcript

00:01

This is a practice exercise video solution.

00:07

For this practice, we will be using the FSAE upright.F3D.

00:12

In manufacture, we have OP1 and a lot of toolpaths already created.

00:16

Now we want to go in and we want to create the drilling operations that are located around the part.

00:22

We have an 8 mm hole, and we have two 6 mm holes.

00:26

So to get started, I'm going to go into drill.

00:30

I'm going to select the appropriate drill size, and I'll do this by going into the sample tools metric,

00:36

looking for hole making specifically for drill bits.

00:40

And then we want to use a 6 mm and an 8 mm drill bit.

00:44

So as we go through the list, we will scroll down until we find 6 mm to start.

00:49

We're going to be using it for aluminium drilling.

00:52

And then we need to go to our geometry tab and start by selecting our tool orientation.

00:58

The first 6 mm hole is going to be over here.

01:00

So I'm going to select this end face to set my coordinate system.

01:05

Notice Z X and Y rotate.

01:08

If we deselect this, I want to make sure we understand exactly how everything is rotating.

01:13

When we select Z, it's flipping the Y over.

01:17

So I'm going to flip the Z axis and flip the X axis.

01:22

Making sure that the orientation that we're going from and to is just rotating about one axis.

01:29

From here, we need to select the whole position, and we're going to be drilling all the way through the bottom.

01:34

So I'm going to go to a specific selected face, and I'm going to grab this bottom face.

01:42

Notice when I do that, I have no preview on the screen.

01:45

So instead of selecting the whole faces, we can do selected points.

01:50

We go and rotate around, and we select the bottom here.

01:53

Now we get the preview on the screen, showing us exactly where we're drilling.

01:58

We have to remember that all the stock is still in the middle here, and we're only drilling this bottom portion in the preview.

02:04

So for our heights, we need to make sure that the top of the part is not the whole top but rather a selection.

02:11

This way it's going to be drilling that hole section and making sure that we go all the way through the bottom.

02:17

I'm going to say drill tip through bottom and add an additional positive offset of .06.

02:23

I'm going to say 'okay' and because I want to use that same drill bit, I'm going to right click on drill one, and I'm going to duplicate it.

02:31

On my duplicate operation, we will select Edit.

02:34

We're going to rotate around, resetting our whole position and our coordinate system.

02:40

So we're going to deselect the face option for Z, and this time we're going to select this face.

02:45

Once again we want to make sure we note the orientation of the coordinate system.

02:49

We've rotated about X and about Y.

02:54

Next we want to make sure that we select the whole position.

02:58

And again in this case, we want to make sure that we select the bottom.

03:01

But note in this instance that we don't have a clean selection for the whole bottom.

03:06

So I'm going to select the whole top.

03:09

Then I need to go to my heights and select the starting and ending position.

03:14

In this case instead of whole bottom, I'm going to go to a selection, and I'm going to make it come all the way down to this edge.

03:21

For my starting position, we're going to go from a selection.

03:25

We want to clear our selection, and we want to select the top of this face.

03:31

Right now we're not doing any peck drilling operations.

03:34

We are simply drilling all the way through and noting that the pockets have not been cleared yet.

03:38

This is going to make sure that the drill bit doesn't wander as we drill through this geometry,

03:43

and it'll have a small cavity when we go in to clear out those pockets.

03:47

Last we have an 8 mm hole.

03:49

I'm going to duplicate this operation one more time.

03:54

And in the duplicate, we're going to change the tool and the coordinate system, so we'll select.

03:60

Once again, we'll go into the sample tools metric under hole making and drilling.

04:05

And we're going to search for an 8 mm drill bit.

04:09

Once we find our 8 mm drill bit, we then want to go to our geometry,

04:14

clear our selected point and clear our coordinate system.

04:18

We're going to reset Z, noting that we want to make sure that we understand how Z rotates.

04:26

In this case, if we want to flip X or Y, we can simply check the preview on the screen to make sure the orientation is correct.

04:33

For our hole point, we will select the bottom of the hole.

04:36

And once again we need to alter our selections for the top and for the bottom of the hole.

04:47

Then we're going to make sure that we are offsetting, and we can select 'okay'.

04:52

If we zoom back out to top, you can see that we have our first position drilling, our second position drilling and our third position drilling.

05:00

I'm going to go back to a home view and save this before moving on.

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