Yep, figuring out the correct thing to select is key. If you select the “bottom” of the hole (with the red cut arrow on the correct side of the contour) then setting the heights is also straight forward.nitvtook me a fair time to get to grips with manufacturing but it’s worth it.
@Jens
I’m sorry I didn’t come back to update earlier, but the weekend got the best of me. Anyway, it bothered me that “Pocket Recognition” was not working for your dog holes. After digging in, I realized that the issue was not with your toolpathing but with the way you created your model. Your initial dog hole was sketched on the bottom and cut “up” while your extra dog holes were sketched on the top and cut down. This, while frustrating, seems to be the cause of that issue. When I fixed that, Fusion was able to find all the dog holes for a pocket operation. I still would use a boring op, as that’s exactly what the boring toolpath is for.
By the way, I appreciate your effort in naming your sketches and features…I gave up on getting my students to do that years ago!
Interesting … I thought I made the hole and then patterned it … but it’s been a while so I guess it is possible. Something to watch next time I run into trouble.
I must admit that the vast majority of my designs are not documented this well. I expected the resulting model to be in use over many years (for replacement of spoil board) and wanted to make sure I would be able to recall what I did.
In any case, I learned a lot from all the help received and am in a much better position with Fusion. Boring did turn out to be the method I think is best in this case.