Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
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Hello guys :)
Could anyone help me or explain how to create Honeycomb structure in CATIA? I need to create a big honeycomb but always I can't go further than few rows. The best idea is to create one honeycomb and copy them but I totally do not know how to do that in CATIA v5, I tried mirror option etc but it does not work well. I attached photo how it should look like. If anyone has any idea please help me :) Thank you in advance!
Could anyone help me or explain how to create Honeycomb structure in CATIA? I need to create a big honeycomb but always I can't go further than few rows. The best idea is to create one honeycomb and copy them but I totally do not know how to do that in CATIA v5, I tried mirror option etc but it does not work well. I attached photo how it should look like. If anyone has any idea please help me :) Thank you in advance!





RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
Use a "rectangular pattern" or "user pattern" found under Part Design workbench > Insert > Transformation features.
Drew Mumaw
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RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
It works for me. See screen grab below of my history tree.
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RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
To get the same result, I would have made a single hexagon sketch, and patterned it in the Horizontal and 60° directions to get the bottom two rows, and then add a second pattern to go vertical for the other rows.
RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
Since jackk and I were both able to create a hex pattern, I think this is an error on your side (along with the eng-tips.com site issues that you're experiencing).
Here's a few tips and things to check:
Drew Mumaw
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RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
Thank you for your message. Yes I know that error is on my side. I posted how I am doing this step-by-step and the 4th step is my main problem, do not know how to do that equally and symmetrically like you guys did, if you have some time please have a look :)
Thank you in advance!
RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
Select one of the planes for your "reference direction".
Drew Mumaw
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RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
Thank you for your message. I did it with reference direction but is there any chance to leave all walls with the same thickness?
RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
Thickness can be modified in the parameters of the pad feature.
Drew Mumaw
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RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
You can decide which side of the hex profile to have the pad feature create the thickness. The rest should just be a matter of calculating the math to make it work as desired.
Drew Mumaw
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RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
Any time! Glad you got it to work. btw..what are you designing? a heat sink?
Drew Mumaw
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RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?
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RE: Structure of Honeycomb in CATIA v5 step-by-step?