topic Re: Pattern a Hole (Feature) doesn't work! in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Pattern a Hole (Feature) doesn't work!

Beyondforce — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 03:36:08 GMT

Hi Guys,

Maybe you can figure this out. I'm trying to pattern a hole feature, but it doesn't work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong!?

I have attached the file as well.

Cheers / Ben
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Re: Pattern a Hole (Feature) doesn't work!

daniel_lyall — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 04:09:04 GMT

Where are the the features for the hole

Re: Pattern a Hole (Feature) doesn't work!

Beyondforce — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 03:41:54 GMT

What do you mean?

Re: Pattern a Hole (Feature) doesn't work!

TrippyLighting — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 04:10:32 GMT

The compute option will not do much in this case.

The problem is that when patterning an feature you need to pattern it in the same body. The feature that you want to pattern would end up in different bodies.

Re: Pattern a Hole (Feature) doesn't work!

Beyondforce — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 04:20:59 GMT

Make sanse, I completely forgot about it.

Thanks @TrippyLighting

Re: Pattern a Hole (Feature) doesn't work!

jeff_strater — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 05:40:13 GMT

What I do in these cases is, instead of creating a hole, create a tool body, use pattern body to pattern the tool body around, then do a series of Combines to subtract the tool bodies from the target bodies. It's not ideal, but it will work.

Jeff

Re: Pattern a Hole (Feature) doesn't work!

daniel_lyall — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 07:38:08 GMT

the other way is to just pattern the body with the hole in it but that's yuck

Re: Pattern a Hole (Feature) doesn't work!

Beyondforce — Sat, 26 Nov 2016 08:19:38 GMT

@jeff_strater & @daniel_lyall,

What I did is, I removed all the bodies except for the one with the hole, then I patterned the body with hole. It works great this way.

Now I can change one body and it will replicate to the others.

Thanks guys.

Ben.