A thread through a cylinder in SolidWorks

SolidWorks has also some bugs or insufficient features. For example I would like to add a threaded hole with the hole wizard trough the centre of the cylinder. But when I set the position I get the following message:

But how do I create a hole in this position? Learn more about this problem!

This is the cylinder that we have on the starting point of this tutorial.

First you’ll have to create a plane onto the outer surface of the  cylinder. Choose Reference Geometry and Plane in the feature command manager.

Select the right plane and the surface of the cylinder.

Create a sketch on the plane you’ve just created and draw a centre line from on the centre of the cylinder. Give the line some dimensions to make the sketch fully defined.

Now it’s time to add the hole to the model. Select the hole wizard in the feature command toolbar.

Specify the hole type.

And specify the position of the hole. Don’t select the end of the centerline. This will return the error message I’ve shown in the top of this post but select a random point on the plane.

Apply the hole and now it’s time to move the hole to the point we want to. Go to the feature tree and now you’ll see two sketches beneath the hole you just created. A sketch which defines the hole and a 3D sketch with defines the position of the hole. Modify the 3D sketch.

Drag the point to the end of the centerline and make sure these points are coincident to eachother!

Now you’ve got your hole in perpendicular trough the cylinder!

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