Hi.
I'm trying to pattern two flanges and hole along a curve which is made up of two radii and a straight line. So far so good. The problem is that the hole, the flanges, and the flange bolt holes need to to be pointing att a shared center point, not concentric to any of the radii. This means that the first instance direction (sketched pointing to the center point) will have a unique tangent to the curve, thus making it (seemingly) impossible to use a Pattern along curve - Direction 1 combo.
Also, what's up with not being able to pattern solids along a curve? Seems like I can only choose features.
Attached is a simplified model (Inventor 2015). It's about as close as I've gotten, still way off though. The model is going to be used as a parameter driven skeleton for creating sheet metal parts in an assembly. I therefor need all identical parts to be the same solid so that I can use the copy pattern function.
This problem occurs a bunch of times in the full model (a few hundred different sheet metal parts), so your help will be extremely appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
Hi LCPM,
if i have understood, this is the orientation that you would like for your pattern
You can't obtain it with the pattern.
I have create a block, that simulate quite well a part in assembly behavior, constrained all the blocks, than create solids groups as you need for your workflow.
I don't know if it is exacly what you was looking for.
The file here attached.
Admaiora
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Hi.
Thanks for your input, but I think I'll just have to mate them individually in the sheet metal assembly, seeing as how both quantity, size and direction parameters will change from project to project.