Creating a compontent pattern from a fill pattern?
Creating a compontent pattern from a fill pattern?
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Current situation:
I have a part with a cirular fill pattern, 3mm holes.
In these holes I want to place tubes. The first is allready shown.
SolidWorks won't let me use a feature driven component pattern (I get a message I can't use a fill pattern for my feature driven component pattern).
Besides mating each tube indepenently is there any other way? Tubes are to be of a different material.
The assembly:

The tube:
I have a part with a cirular fill pattern, 3mm holes.
In these holes I want to place tubes. The first is allready shown.
SolidWorks won't let me use a feature driven component pattern (I get a message I can't use a fill pattern for my feature driven component pattern).
Besides mating each tube indepenently is there any other way? Tubes are to be of a different material.
The assembly:

The tube:
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer






RE: Creating a compontent pattern from a fill pattern?
Bouke Brouwers
M-Des
The Netherlands.
RE: Creating a compontent pattern from a fill pattern?
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RE: Creating a compontent pattern from a fill pattern?
... or create as a multi-body part and then Split and Save-as individual parts?
An ER for a Fill Pattern to be used as a feature driven component pattern would be good.
RE: Creating a compontent pattern from a fill pattern?
Scott, that seems to be the best solution. I had thought of that as well, using weldments. disadvantage: manual updating of the BOM is needed.
Cor, the tube circular patterns could work, but it still is pretty labour intensive. The multibody & save as assembly method creates a part file for each seperate body, not able to use multiple instances of the same body in a newly created body. Quite stupid actually, since the weldment feature is able to recognize identical bodies.
I'll fill in an ER for both.
Stefan Hamminga
EngIT Solutions
CSWP/Mechanical designer
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RE: Creating a compontent pattern from a fill pattern?
The pattern you used to create the holes in the original part could probably also been done in the sketch lvl instead of making a feature pattern.
So, you could create a sketch containing only points of the entire pattern, which should be just as much work as creating the feature pattern of the holes. Then use that sketch for a sketch-pattern where you pattern the cut-extrude feature. That should add only 1 extra feature in your part which is not time-consuming.
Now in the assembly you've still got this sketch anyway to use to pattern the tube.
Then as result you would have your parametic solution right?
Regards,
Bouke
Bouke Brouwers
M-Des
The Netherlands.
RE: Creating a compontent pattern from a fill pattern?