#Hole

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#How to do it

1. Press Hole and click a face — the centre of the hole goes to the point of the click. A second click at another point of the same face moves the centre; a click at the same place lets the face go.
2. At the geometry — Diameter and Depth, and Shift 1 and Shift 2 from the face centre if the position is to be given in numbers.
3. Kind in the bar above: Simple, Counterbore or Countersink; a counterbore and a countersink add Recess Ø and Recess depth. The preview shows the walls of the hole before it is applied.
4. Enter applies, Esc cancels.

Placement -> By a sketch: click a sketch on the face with isolated points — a hole goes into each. Their positions are then edited by the sketch's dimensions.

#Why not a cut with a circle

A hole keeps a reference to the face: edit the part higher up the timeline, and the hole stays on its face rather than where the coordinates happened to land.

A through hole is a depth well past the thickness. A thread in a finished hole is cut by Thread.

#If it did not work

• The diameter is not taken — the hole is wider than the face; the reason is written at the field.
• By a sketch places nothing — the sketch has no isolated points: add them with the Point tool.

#See also

• Thread — how to cut it in the hole.
• Linear pattern — a row of holes as one operation.