@pilou said:

Select your single or multiple result Visuhole Object(s)
Make a component with Everywhere Cutting link
Copy and move it from the background to the Face
Explode it (don't ask me why...
Make a component with Everywhere Cutting link
Kill the original

My Lord..!
How did you come up to such scheme ?
Have you been spending months playing with various methods

Going to give a try to this "direct method"

Respectful hat tips

@box said:

Glad you got there.
This is why we ask to see what you are working on, if we'd known it was a simple array when you first asked we could have shown you then.

I got familiar with the "golden rule" (posting the model with a post) right after I sent my post, only. Mea Culpa

@box said:

I thought from your original reference to using Copy along curve that the flange wasn't round.

And I solved one more issue that bothered from a certain time, ie. how to embed in one's post a google photos based image

and for future viewers of this post...

Thou my way to complete the task was a way around.
I still can not figure out why a hole made with fredo's visuhole extension & copied using rotate method does no result in copied holes but pipes with a blinded ends.
like that:

The "empty hole" is the one created with VisuHole. the rest are its copies
(I set the VisuHole plugin to place the result as a group.)
The one its left is a copy which I had to "intersect with model" with and only then I could manually remove the "blin end".

AFAIU the rotate tool shall allow copying a group/component.

What am I missing?

@box said:

Are the two hundred holes in a circle?

Gosh.. yes they are!

The simplest methods are the best. No need for any plugins.
I got my mind fixed in one way and you showed me another-simpler

@pilou said:

No need to click 200 times Just make your sections along a path then apply visuhole!

I need to admit I don't get what is the method you are proposing

I'm placing an example image to show what I need to obtain:

I need to have around 200 of such bolts placed in holes.
Placing bolts was not much of an issue, the hindrance is creating 200 equally spaced holes

BTW. Unfortunately LICEcap stil hangs my win7

@box said:

Without seeing it we can only guess.
My guess would be that you haven't set the axis correctly to get the components to follow the path as you want.

So much thanks for replying.
Once I'm back home I'll repeat and recheck all the steps I did yesterday.
I have installed the liceCAP soft, tried to record what I was doing, but then... Sketchup hang up and... I gave up and went to bed.

@pilou said:

Why not use directly Visuhole ?

Thanks for your time.
I believe I'll have more sketches with that issue to do in a nearest future.
Therefore I balked at a sheer thought of repeated clicking even those 200 clicks.

Either the air pressure is too low or I'm getting old but I can not figure out how to make Fredo's VisuHole punch result to be a component.

I need to sketch a flange with 200 holes in it.
I used the Fredo's plugin to punch one hole and then wanted to multiply its copies around the flange with Copy Along a Curve plugin.

The results are faaaar from what I wanted.

Any means to dissipate the big black cloud that covers my mind and protects me from finding a solution?