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Hole Wizard for Synera
Standards-compliant fastener hole geometry — and the drawing callouts to match — dropped directly into your Synera workflow.
A Pathfinder Labs add-in for Synera, the low-code engineering platform.
The problem
Fastener holes are the most-repeated task in mechanical design.
Every bolted, tapped, inserted, or riveted connection sends an engineer back to a catalog — ISO 273 for clearance, ASME B18.2.8 for counterbores, NAS1130 for Heli-Coil drill sizes, manufacturer tables for Keensert and TimeSert. The geometry is modeled by hand, subtracted from the solid, and the drawing callouts typed in manually.
Multiplied across dozens of fastener locations on a single part — or hundreds across an assembly — the cost shows up as hours of lookup, scattered transcription errors, and drawings that quietly fall out of sync with the model.
What Hole Wizard does
Pick the fastener. Point at the centers. Get the geometry and the drawing callouts.
Hole Wizard is a parametric node you drop into a Synera workflow. Connect a bolt-circle or point set, choose a fastener type and size from a dropdown, and the add-in generates the correct drill/clearance/insert geometry, subtracts it from the part, and emits ASME Y14.5–compliant drawing callouts that stay synchronized with the 3D model. Covers clearance, tapped, threaded-insert, and rivet holes across ISO, ASME, UNC / UNF, Heli-Coil, Keensert, TimeSert, KATO, and NAS1130 catalogs.
How it works in Synera
Four inputs in, production-ready holes out.
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Step 1
Connect a point set
Feed the Hole Wizard node a bolt circle, a pattern, or an arbitrary point set from upstream in your Synera graph.
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Step 2
Choose the fastener
Hole type, thread series, size, fit class, insert family — all from dropdowns. No external catalog lookups.
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Step 3
Geometry is generated
The add-in places the correct drill/clearance/insert geometry and subtracts it from the solid, with optional cosmetic V-threads.
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Step 4
Drawing callouts update themselves
ASME Y14.5–compliant callouts are emitted automatically and stay synchronized if the fastener changes upstream. Hole Wizard updates the callouts — not the drawing sheet itself.
A worked example
Six M6 Heli-Coil inserts, no catalog in sight.
Take an aluminum aerospace bracket that needs six M6 Heli-Coil helical inserts. The traditional path is an afternoon: look up the drill size (8.4 mm per NAS1130), model the six holes, subtract from the solid, then hand-author each drawing callout.
With Hole Wizard: wire the six point locations into the node, pick "Heli-Coil → M6," and the 8.4 mm holes appear in the part with matching ASME Y14.5 callouts ready to drop onto your drawing sheet. Resize to M8 upstream and everything — geometry, insert spec, callouts — updates together.
Why it matters
Built for teams that cannot afford to type drill sizes into a drawing.
Speed
Hours of catalog-to-drawing work collapse to seconds of dropdown selection.
Accuracy
Drill sizes are sourced from the standards and manufacturer catalogs, not typed in. Fewer rework loops on the shop floor.
Parametric
Change the fastener upstream; geometry and Y14.5 callouts update in lockstep.
Agent-friendly
Because every input is a Synera node input, an agentic system can drive Hole Wizard end-to-end without a human in the loop.
Built for mechanical, aerospace, and automotive engineers; CAD designers; and structural or assembly designers working with bolted joints, threaded inserts, or riveted connections.
"Fastener holes are one of the most repeated tasks in mechanical design… the fact that engineers can now handle that inside Synera with speed, precision, and connected to everything else..."
"Beyond speed, the quality impact is significant. Engineers working with Pathfinder Labs' standards database inside Synera get accuracy without breaking design flow."
Install Hole Wizard, or commission the next add-in.
Hole Wizard is available on the Synera Marketplace. If you need a Synera add-in that doesn't exist yet, Pathfinder Labs builds custom add-ins against the Synera SDK.