How do I correct holes that are on the wrong axis?

CAD_SSP

Thanks to some previous help here, I have managed to cut some holes using the hole tool but depending on the orientation of the part the holes end up incorrectly positioned.

Not actually an issue currently as I will always work in one plane but I would love to make the feature universal for future proofing.

Correct holes:

Incorrect Holes:
 

The FS is here

Please excuse the somewhat messy and clumsy code I haven't had a chance to streamline it yet!

Jake_Rosenfeld

@keith_marsh

I don't think I'll be able to debug this for you without spending a bunch of time on it, but I do have some tools that can help. If you press the button at the top of your part studio that looks like '{✔}' it will open the FeatureScript console at the bottom of the document.  Then, if you put a 'println(...)' or 'debug(context, ...)' somewhere in your code, it will print useful information to the console.

'debug(context, ...)' is a very powerful tool for FeatureScript debugging.  If you 'debug(context, someQuery)' or 'debug(context, someLocation)' it will print useful information to the console AND make the result of that query, or the point you specify show up in red in the part studio.  This is very helpful to make sure that things are lined up the way you expect visually.

For your feature, I would start in the feature body by doing 'debug(context, centrepoint)', 'debug(context, thirdpoint)', and 'debug(context, forthpoint)' after their definitions to make sure you are not making a small math error at the top level.  If those values are what you expect, continue to dig deeper until you find where the mispositioning occurs.

Jake_Rosenfeld

https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/library.html#module-debug.fs

CAD_SSP

@Jake_Rosenfeld Thanks for your response, this posting is as a result of getting nowhere with the debug function, I am an extensive user of that feature (surprised I hadn't left a bunch of them commented out actually).

Some other FS work this afternoon has given me a clue so I will experiment and see if I can solve it myself.