Insert bolt in hole on a curved face

EricGauthier

Hi,
What is the simplest way to insert a bolt in a hole on a curved sheet metal part?
I have 12 holes on this part where I want to insert bolts.
Should I create many Mate connectors in my part (cover in image)?

NeilCooke

Can you use slider and tangent?

EricGauthier

Looking at it again, I think my problem is because my holes are recognized as 360 degrees arcs, not circles with center points.
They were created on the flat pattern directly because I don't know how I could have made them on the curved surface properly.
Should I create Mate Connectors on their center points?

konstantin_shiriazdanov

in the V12 of Measure Value feature I added an option to place a point of an approximate centroid of an entity, so using it you can at least place an aprroximate centroid 3d points for each edge and somehow use it to define a mate connector. Or someone would use evApproximateCentroid to place MC direcly by a custom feature.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/77baa8153589a7fc5f289829/w/cffd0f2a7077380d5378a885/e/d3174bf5315e6aafcb889367