Configuration / Linear Pattern 1

[Waidesworld]

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.

 

[smcadman]

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

 

[Waidesworld]

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.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

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

Would you explain that statement, please?

 

[handleman]

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)

 

[Waidesworld]

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.

 

[handleman]

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)

 

[Waidesworld]

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

 

[smcadman]

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

Flores