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Configuration / Linear Pattern

Configuration / Linear Pattern

Configuration / Linear Pattern

(OP)
I have a rectangle block where I am putting in six holes.  I used the linear pattern to add the six holes.  Now I want to make a three hole version exactly half the size.  Is it possible to specify the configuration on which patterned holes to suppress?  I am using SW2008.

RE: Configuration / Linear Pattern

Double-click the pattern in the task pane (do not right-click and edit feature).  After double-clicking the pattern, double-click the quantity number and pick "this configuration".  

Now each pattern will have independent quantities.

Flores

RE: Configuration / Linear Pattern

(OP)
Alas, I don't have a design library to reference to so I can't go this route.  I see what you are saying though.

RE: Configuration / Linear Pattern

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Alas, I don't have a design library to reference to so I can't go this route.

Would you explain that statement, please?

RE: Configuration / Linear Pattern

I'm not sure where you're getting "design library" from.  Unless possibly from Flores' reference to the "task pane."  I believe he meant "feature manager design tree."

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: Configuration / Linear Pattern

(OP)
Yeah that is what I thought he meant. And when I looked in one of my books I saw that the only option he seemed to be suggesting was that of a "design library".

So right now I have
1. A sketch of the rectangle which is extruded
2. A sketch of the hole which is the linear pattern.

In the feature manager design tree (FMDT) I see sketch but not the pattern. I double click on the sketch but it only opens it for editing.  I then can Right Click on one of the circles and see "Pattern0".  To make life easier, I have uploaded this simple-yet-doing-my-head in part.

 

RE: Configuration / Linear Pattern

OK, the problem is that you used a sketch pattern rather than a feature pattern.  Make your sketch so that it contains only one hole and use a feature pattern to create the rest.

-handleman, CSWP (The new, easy test)

RE: Configuration / Linear Pattern

(OP)
Thanks guys, once again a SLDPRT was worth more than a few posts.

RE: Configuration / Linear Pattern

Oops, wrong terminology but some of you knew what I meant.

Flores

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