Trimming a pattern without losing constraints

[sanketh99]

I used a rectangular pattern to repeat a whole bunch of rectangles. There are a few lines near the top left of the sketch that I would like to trim. I've tried editting the pattern and unchecking Associative, but this results in a a lot of unconstrained items. Is there anyway I can keep the constraints and trim the pattern easily? 

[admaiora]

Hi Sanketh,

try selecting the elements of the pattern  that you want to delete, right click and choose  "suppress element/s"

[WHolzwarth]

Perhaps like this (2013 file)

Walter

[stephengibson76]

try the split tool in the sketch and then turn the stuff you dont want to construction geometry

[sanketh99]

Is there a way to use the grill tool on a sketch? 

[sanketh99]

That works, but I really don't want to suppress 20+ lines and redraw them to a correct length. 

[sanketh99]

I've tried that already, and unfortunately it doesn't work with these lines.

[WHolzwarth]

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sanketh99 schrieb:

Is there a way to use the grill tool on a sketch? 

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I've just seen problems with Grill feature some days ago. But can you show your actual IPT, instead of the DWG?

[sanketh99]

Yeah sorry about that. I accidentally uploaded the drawing file instead of the ipt file. I put the drawing in a block just fyi. 

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Certainly, it will be nice if the associative sketch pattern can allow some override in geometry. Can I ask why trimming has to happen on sketch level? Could you create geometry based on the sketch and then trim the geometry?

Thanks!

[sanketh99]

I think the trimming needs to be done in the sketch because the final product is the sketch itself. I don't plan on turing it into a 3d part. 

I'm not sure how exactly I could do that.