topic Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Jun 2016 21:54:45 GMT

I want to unlink all the 3d objects in a recctangular pattern.

I READ THIS LINK: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/unlink-sketch-pattern-entities/m-p/5901044#M57679

and I am not able to find the small icon on the "original / reference" object.

"Unlinking" to me means decoupling such that each object in the original pattern

can be moved independent of each other.

Questions:

1) How do I display the "small icon" as stated in the link so I can delete it to enable decoupling?

Not sure what it looks like since I donto know how to make it show up.

I like to decouple the 3D objects in hte rectangular pattern.

NOTE:

I copied the 5 x 5 rectangular pattern into a new component.

I asssume the copied pattern is no link to the source pattern located in another component.

2) After creating a rectangular pattern of objects, I am not able to delete

specific objects. I am obly able to hide the object by turning the light bulb

at the body folder associated to that object in the pattern.

So if I have that object turned off, does it (the turned off objects) come into play during subtraction or addition operations?

3) I am also suspecting the rectangular pattern of 3D objects I created is causing CPU to be running hard and hot!

The object is just about a 5 x 5 matrix of cylinders.

What can be done?

Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

jeff_strater — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:01:31 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

That link is a bit misleading, because it refers to sketch patterns, not feature or body patterns. As near as I can tell, there is no way to unlink a feature or body pattern. It's an interesting request, though, and I'm surprised, to be honest, that no one has asked for it before. There is "convert to direct modeling feature", but that will convert everything up to the pattern into a base body, and is not what you want.

I think this should be in the Fusion Idea Station. You should add it

Jeff

Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

Anonymous — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 15:55:31 GMT

@jeff_strater:

Thank you.

I am not getting email notification from your repsonse.

So it looks like if I need 20 x 30 matrix of these same 3D objects,

but all uncoupled from each other, I have to paste it.

Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

jeff_strater — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 23:56:30 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

We had a discussion about this today. The gist of it is: For Body pattern or Component pattern, this is something that we could easily do in Fusion, but unlinking a Feature or Face pattern is a bit trickier, because Fusion is a parametric system. If the pattern is a Feature pattern, we could conceivably reproduce the feature in the timeline for every instance, but that would be a bit of a big project. Not impossible, just big.

Yes, without this, I would say that using a sketch pattern and getting rid of the pattern constraint is a good approach, if the geometry is sketch-based. Alternately, you could use a Base Feature for this, but mostly that would not be what I suspect you want.

Jeff

Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 14:55:26 GMT

Jeff, are you saying it would be easy to modify individual bodies or components in a pattern, or that it would be easy for that functionality to be added to Fusion? Having a bear of a time with this exact issue in my current project.

Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

jeff_strater — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 20:34:50 GMT

Sorry, I was not clear on that. I was saying it would be relatively easy for us to change Fusion so that you could dissolve a body pattern, leaving independent bodies that could be modified individually. However, that is currently not on our roadmap, and would take quite a significant demand from users to bump up its priority.

I did not see this item on the Fusion 360 idea station, so feel free to add it there, and see if others share your desire for this.

Jeff

Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Jul 2016 23:15:42 GMT

Now THAT'S a clear response. Thank you!

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Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

nic_wren — Fri, 14 Apr 2017 19:14:52 GMT

I have the same issue and would like to add a request as well

Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

HughesTooling — Sat, 15 Apr 2017 12:49:58 GMT

You might be able to get what you want using copied bodies. I made the screencast below for someone else but it shows after the copy you can edit the individual bodies or roll the timeline back before the copy and edit all versions.

Mark

Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Feb 2019 22:03:01 GMT

Please add this feature!

Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

md27182 — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 05:11:57 GMT

Thank you so much, I've been trying to figure out how to do this for ages.

Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

davebYYPCU — Sat, 28 Oct 2023 07:57:53 GMT

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Re: Unlinking 3D object RECTANGULAR Pattern

nimrodbuz — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 10:33:08 GMT

Ran into a similar situation while designing a cabinet in which on side according to the designer had the shelves at different heights than the complete furniture, otherwise not visible, behind a door. Now that would have included a new component, unnecessarily complicating production. I patterned it anyway, but knew that the client might insist to the "original" plan.

Here's how I prepared the model:

Use component pattern.
Suppress the instance that needs to be moved around.
Copy - Paste a new instance of the same component and place it where it needs to be.

Result:

Pattern can be restored any time by adding back the component through the suppress functionality. Then delete the copied component.
BOM is not impacted. In either case the number of components is correct.

Here's my two cents. Hope it helps. It is another perspective and way to get this done, anyway.