Explode/Break a pattern?

[NeilClasby75]

Hi

I have a pattern of iassemblies in an assembly. If I change the member then all instances will change.

So is it possible to explode/break a pattern into individual iassemblies?

I think this would be really useful. You can use pattern to layout the assemblies but then break the link to edit them individually. Perhaps to move one slightly, for instance. Or to change a particular member, as I need in this case.

I know that I can suppress specific members and replace with a new member. But this will loose the constraints I have applied to the members of the pattern.

I appreciate that by breaking the pattern there will be no parameters to determine the position of those exploded members, so perhaps they could be automatically grounded until you add new position constraints to them?

This may already be possible?

Regards, Neil.

[Anonymous]

Right-click on the elements and select Independent. This will place a copy
of that component and suppress the element. You will then need to
ground/constrain the new instance.

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Patrick Miller
Autodesk Manufacturing Industry Group
Technical Publications - Subject Matter Expert
Novi, MI
wrote in message news:6242742@discussion.autodesk.com...
Hi

I have a pattern of iassemblies in an assembly. If I change the member then
all instances will change.

So is it possible to explode/break a pattern into individual iassemblies?

I think this would be really useful. You can use pattern to layout the
assemblies but then break the link to edit them individually. Perhaps to
move one slightly, for instance. Or to change a particular member, as I
need in this case.

I know that I can suppress specific members and replace with a new member.
But this will loose the constraints I have applied to the members of the
pattern.

I appreciate that by breaking the pattern there will be no parameters to
determine the position of those exploded members, so perhaps they could be
automatically grounded until you add new position constraints to them?

This may already be possible?

Regards, Neil.

[NeilClasby75]

Thanks very much Patrick. That did exactly what I wanted.

I would have been very surprised if Inventor couldn't do this, so thought it would be there somewhere. I was clicking on the entry one step below the 'Element' level to look for a break-link type command - rather than the 'Element' level.

Thanks for you help.

Regards, Neil.

[EECLTD]

Is it possible to make an element of a patterned pattern independent? Unless I am seeing something wrong it doesn't seem to be possible.

Joel Schmechel

IV2010(SP1)
Vista Business - 64 bit
Core 2 Quad @ 2.83 GHz
8 gb memory
NVIDIA Quadro FX3700:
Vault 2010

[lemensk]

Joel Schmechel,

I have a strong feeling a lot of people are concidering you and me to be absolute morons when it comes to Inventor, but it doesn't work for me either.

I don't have the feature of declaring something "independent," I can only supress. My advice to you is bit back your tears, delete all that hard work, and redo it peice by peice.

-Kenny

I wish I didn't use patterns.  Heck, the only reason I WAS is because there doesn't seem to be a simple (copy 5in on the x-axis) or (move 2.5" on the y-axis)

[lemensk]

Found a workaround, mirror the pattern, delete the pattern, and then mirror the "mirrored" object back

[swhite]

Are you using 2010 or earlier?

[bryanwencesl]

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=BREAK+OR+EXPLODE+A+PATTERN+IN+INVENTOR&&view=detail&mid=66A333C...