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Hole tool not following direction of Mate Connector or an actual Plane as start plane, seems broken.
joshtargo
Member Posts: 264 EDU
I chose the Mate Connector as the start plane, but the hole tool is trying to make a hole along its X-dir instead of normal to the MC. So I made a plane normal to the hole direction and it is still not following the direction.
This seems broken.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3cb0dff529a89bfaa045bc8f/w/9f7c7b8e9e7a0770e1038da8/e/9d84c4d17c887520290b3f7f
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I also recently noticed this when referencing a sketch vertex, that it didn't orient the hole correctly when selecting 'from part' as the starting plane.
I haven't investigated, but my first suspicion was that it is trying to extrude normal to the sketch plane.
I had the same situation - a part created using revolve so that the sketch plane is perpendicular to the surface of the part.
I suspect the interim solution is to create a tangent plane and sketch on that instead, even if just projecting the sketch point onto the new plane.
That's what I did in the second image
The "start from" selection does not define the direction, the selection in the first box does.
If you use a sketch point the direction will always be normal to the sketch plane. Instead of using the sketch point directly, just use a mate connector centered on your sketch point and re-orient it as needed.
In this example you are really complicating things, all you need to do is select a mate connector on the end of the line segment from sketch2, you don't need anything else!
You have vertex of sketch 2 selected in both. You would need to create a new sketch on the new plane then project the vertex into your new sketch. Then use that projected vertex (which is in the same location) as your hole location.
Or a mate connector as Eric said. I'm still getting used to the mate connector concept really. Takes a while to teach an old dog new tricks.