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3d Pattern

3d Pattern

3d Pattern

(OP)
Hi All.
I have 50 Points in a 3DSketch and i want to have a ball patterned on each point. What would be the best way ?
Thanks.

RE: 3d Pattern

Sketch pattern is 2d only...even if you have points in 3d.

Jason

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RE: 3d Pattern

(OP)
As Jason said coorectly Sketch Driven Pattern is 2D even when the points are in 3D. I wonder if there's a way to do it in table driven pattern.

RE: 3d Pattern

Can you zip and post the file here
http://www.mcadforums.com
if it is proprietary simply make up an example with similar characteristics.

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RE: 3d Pattern

(OP)
Thanks Matherjd. I've recently been registered to mcadforums, but not authorized yet. Please let me know where should I put the file.

izikim.

RE: 3d Pattern

What about using a curve driven pattern?

RE: 3d Pattern

Thats a pretty good question.

If the points are random then i think 50 Body Move/Copy's is your best bet. Get your hotkeys going and it would probably be pretty fast.

You could probably do this at the assem level or with a macro.

 

RE: 3d Pattern

If in an assembly, mate the spherical parts origin-to-point.  You can save your assembly as a part file after that.

Jeff Mowry
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RE: 3d Pattern

(OP)
I think I'll do what been suggested by Rfus in the part level with Copy/Move feature. Naturally one can think that the best way is with sketch driven pattern that support 3D sketches (without flattening them).Ill suggest Solidworks to update Sketch driven pattern to fully support 3DSketch.

Again, thanks all for their replies.

izikim.

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