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Beginner question: how to do this most efficiently

brettigX95TR — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 07:05:16 GMT

Good morning,

I want to create a triangle with hexagons inside. The border of the triangle needs to have a wall thickness of 2mm and each of the hexagons also needs to have 2mm walls. I later will extrude this to 2mm thickness. I hope the explanation makes sense. The end result will look like this:

I tried to create this using a rectangular pattern. I managed to create the hexagon pattern in the triangle (which included some copy & paste), but then I couldn't find a way to create an offset of the lines, because it wouldn't allow me to select all lines. I then restarted and drew the triangle and a hexagon. I offset both of them and then carefully placed each hexagon inside. That was very tedious. I there an easier way to do this?

thank you,

Bjorn

Re: Beginner question: how to do this most efficiently

davebYYPCU — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:30:11 GMT

Like this?

From this sketch - workflow is not so simple, but you were using sketch pattern, and not the way to go.

Step up the timeline, happy to answer questions.

Might help...

Re: Beginner question: how to do this most efficiently

brettigX95TR — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:03:58 GMT

Thank you - it makes perfect sense what you did there. I need to learn when to use a sketch and when to use objects.

Re: Beginner question: how to do this most efficiently

g-andresen — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 09:41:44 GMT

Hi,

just another way to reach the goal

(view in My Videos)

günther

Re: Beginner question: how to do this most efficiently

brettigX95TR — Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:18:28 GMT

you guys know magic!