Hole tool - depth to a selected surface or next surface

brian_brady

Am I missing something, or is there no way to use the hole tool to make a hole depth end at a specific surface or go to the next surface? I can only find to a specified depth (value) or thru (completely). I would deduct points if my students used an arbitrary depth when the design actually needed a hole to only go up to a specific surface. We can do this in CREO but I cannot find it in OS.

Brian

viru

@brian_brady, Currently this facility is not available in Onshape. You can raise improvement request for this. In near future we hope that this facility will be provided by Onshape like Solidworks and Creo.

Narayan_K

@ brian_brady , Now Onshape don't have that option in hole.you can raise a improvement request for that.
As a work around you can create extrude and remove the material.You have the "Up to face" option in Extrude.

viru

@brian_brady, Currently this facility is not available in Onshape. You can raise improvement request for this. In near future we hope that this facility will be provided by Onshape like Solidworks and Creo.

brian_brady

Narayan_K said:

@ brian_brady , Now Onshape don't have that option in hole.you can raise a improvement request for that.
As a work around you can create extrude and remove the material.You have the "Up to face" option in Extrude.

Thanks, I know how to use the extrude method. It requires multiple steps though if the hole is not just a simple hole. For design intent reasons, I teach my student to use the most appropriate tool, which would be the hole tool in these cases. When moving from design to manufacturing, i.e. generating CNC code, holes that are made using extrusions do not translate as drilled/reamed holes like holes made using the hole tool for several software packages.

Honestly (aimed at OS not you) the improvement request system leaves much to be desired, so I generally don't even bother.

travis_lundy

@brian_brady, Did you ever create an improvement request for this? I just ran in to this limitation myself and I would vote it up. I was not able to find it if you had.

brian_brady

travis_lundy said:

@brian_brady, Did you ever create an improvement request for this? I just ran in to this limitation myself and I would vote it up. I was not able to find it if you had.

I don't think I ever did