Is this possible? ie. have a pattern go in both directions like in part file?
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Not yet. (IV 2014)
There are several posts in the Ideastation about this.
See:
for the most recent one. It lists all the related posts in the comments. The parent is marked Accepted, but I don't know how long it takes a post to go from Accepted to available in the software.
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Thanks for the reply.
Are there any work arounds? Its hard to use a pattern from one of the parts without creating something that will physically appear.
Workaround is here.. (see the accepted solution by cwhetten)
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-General/Bi-Directional-Patterning/m-p/3687130#M453320
@mattclarke wrote:
Worked! Bit messy but allows me to do what i want.
Cheers.
Careful.. watch the bom count with that workaround.. It creates more parts that it should be as you are duplicating the original
@mcgyvr wrote:
@mattclarke wrote:
Worked! Bit messy but allows me to do what i want.
Cheers.
Careful.. watch the bom count with that workaround.. It creates more parts that it should be as you are duplicating the original
Yep. Gotta make sure to remember to suppress the extra occurrence when you're done with the pattern.
Rusty
The bane of my existance component patterns - that and mirrors. All this garbage about workarounds, suppressing occurrences, watching BOM counts etc.
All the while the opposition software i.e. Solidworks, patterns and mirrors work seamlessy...
Let's all hope for small miracles in the next release.
Regards.