Holes in tubes

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If you want a hole in a tube at an arbitrary angle it best to base the hole on a sketch.

 

The sketch will have a point at 0,0 and you select "Placement from sketch" from the hole dialog.

 

The sketch must move around with the angle. To do this you need a sketch in the plane parallel to the base of the tube:

 

Sketch-for-hole-angle

 

 

That bright hole is what you attach the smaller sketch to:

 

Sketch-for-hole-angle-2

 

 

If you use some other method it may be that not all angles around the tube are respected.

 

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