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Please help me with this problem....

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Hey guys does anybody know the best way to replicate this cutout onto all of the faces going round. please see the attached image.

Cheers

RE: Please help me with this problem....


circular pattern will do it

dy

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(OP)
Wow thanks alot! thats exactly what i wanted!

Cheers,

could you explain briefly how you went about drawing this 12 sided shape, i managed it after alot messing around but wondered if i was missing somthing simple.

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> could you explain briefly how you went about drawing this 12 sided shape

I'm lazy winky smile, I used a small program from this site: Polygon

dy

RE: Please help me with this problem....

phudge, there's a macro provided with SE that does that. It is located in Program Files\Solid Edge\Custom\nSidePolygon.

You can create a new toolbar button and attribute it to the macro. It takes some time for it to load, it's not as fast as a regular tool.

Personaly I prefer to do it the manual way. From the look of your screen capture, I think I'm doing it the same way as you.

- Start with a circle, convert it to a construction element
- Draw contiguous lines and taking care always "snaping" the endpoints to the circle. The polygon is inscribed within the circle.
- Assign equal relationships to all the line segments
- Dimension either the circle or a line segment, position the circle to the origin so the polygon is fully constrained.

 

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