You can use the
Inventor Hole Recognition page of the Import wizard to recognize holes in imported
Autodesk Inventor parts, as shown in
this example.
Inventor hole recognition is different from Feature Recognition because it uses additional data from the Inventor model, instead of using just the solid data. This enables you to recognize non-geometric information, such as threads for tapped holes.
Note: You must have Autodesk Inventor installed and licensed on your computer to use Inventor hole recognition.
Inventor hole recognition has this limitation:
- Only holes that were created using Inventor hole features are recognized automatically. Holes that were created as extrusions have to be recognized using
FeatureCAM's automatic feature recognition.
To complete this page:
- To use Inventor hole recognition, select
Use Inventor to extract information about the hole types
and dimensions.
- Select
Suppress recognized holes in the imported model to suppress the holes after they have been recognized. This removes the holes from the solid model so they are not recognized again if you use Feature Recognition.
- If you do not want to perform hole recognition using Inventor, select
Use
FeatureCAM to recognize holes later.
- Click
Finish to close the wizard.
Note: It may take some time to start up Inventor and recognize the holes, so please be patient.