2D Pattern Enhancement

[altar]

Ability to give coincident constraint to end point of objects in 2D rectangular pattern in sketch environment to make them close profiles in order to extrude them. One can need it due to prevent oversized files when exporting to stl file format in order to make fluid analysis. Below, there is an example of my request;

[BryanKelley]

Hello altar, Currently the only way I know around this is to create one segment as a feature rather than within the sketch and pattern the resulting feature. Thanks, Bryan Sr. Software QA Engineer DLS – Mechanical Design

[kevinb]

That's the only way I know of as well.  The only other thing that comes to mind is to copy a profile every segment.  I went with that route for some corrugation.

[ewoud.vanduijn]

7 years later...

A solution for this issue is implemented in Inventor 2020 :D.

Thanks to improved 'profile selection' tools, Inventor now recognises these 'enclosed areas'.

(workflow: sketched 45deg (5 lines), mirrored it, rotated it (4*360deg))