Holes

The Drill & cutouts tool (H) drills single holes — e.g. for a cable, a handle or a pipe. Holes for dowels, confirmat screws, hinges and System-32 have their own tool: Joints and hardware.

Adding a hole

Select a panel (double-click). Without a selected panel the tool waits: Select a panel first.
Press H or click Drill & cutouts on the right rail. A rail appears on the left with Add hole (on) and Add cutout.
The banner says Click the panel to mark the hole position. Click roughly where the hole should be — you type the exact position in the next step. Esc cancels.
In the hole form set:
- Position from edges — the distance from two panel edges (From edge …). The marker in the 3D view moves as you type.
- Face — A or B.
- Diameter and Depth in millimetres.
- Through hole — the hole goes right through the panel; the Depth field is then hidden.
Click Add.

You can also add a hole from the Holes tab of the panel form: + in Free holes (Single hole).

The Holes tab

Panel form, Holes tab, has two parts:

Free holes — holes you added by hand, with an ID (H1, H2 …), diameter and position. Clicking a hole opens Edit hole: change it and Save, or Delete hole.
Hole groups — holes from the joint tool: hinges, System-32, dowels, confirmat, eccentrics. They are not edited one by one — you edit and delete the joint in the Joints tab.

The number on the tab shows how many holes the panel has.

Small holes and precise display

Small holes — under 10 mm in diameter that don’t go through the panel, e.g. for shelf pins — are shown as flat dark discs. This keeps the view fast even with hundreds of them.

The tool rail also has Precise holes (real cut): then every hole is really cut in the 3D view. This takes longer — the status bar at the bottom shows a progress bar. The setting stays on for the whole object until you turn it off.

Holes in an edge

A hole drilled into a panel edge (e.g. for a dowel in a side panel) has no A/B face choice — instead it shows which edge it is on.