Hole Module – An DFM Friendly tool to avoid Design Errors.

Hole Module

Benefits

• Improves the fixture drawing quality​
• Speeds up the fixture design creation activity​
• Increases designer productivity​
• Simplifies QC process​
• Eliminates manual oversights​
• Avoids last minute surprises during assembly​

Salient Features

• Facility to handle complex hole information​
• Automatic different hole types recognition ​
• Automatic extraction of complete hole geometry details​
• Grouping of holes by the type and size parameters​
• Improved program architecture leading to improved automation​
• Automated process across the entire tool assembly​
• Important pre-requisite for drawing automation activities​
• Provides very useful information for manufacturing teams​

Summary

Highly complex components, having hundreds of holes of various shapes and sizes, require a long period of study, to understand their features. If the input provided is a non-parametric body, that effort required is tripled.

A single mistake in drilling a wrong hole or a hole in the wrong position can ruin not only a costly casting, but also set the delivery schedule back, by a significant time.​

The hole module addresses this requirement of identifying various types of complex holes accurately for manufacturing purposes.​

This module identifies several types of holes such as counter bore / countersunk / taper / threaded / complex holes with multiple steps and then captures the parameters such as hole point / diameter / depth etc.

It will also identify holes split by other features as one. ​

It also identifies all holes of the same type and size and groups them.​

A dynamic report inside NX environment is provided that enables the reviewer to quickly and accurately grasp the details of the holes information.​

A HTML report provides complete details of all these holes in an informative manner​