topic Re: How to make holes for the icodome connection in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11853354#M42183 <P>l</P> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:39:19 GMT croubogekoutre- 2023-03-28T12:39:19Z How to make holes for the icodome connection https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11849817#M42179 <P>Hello,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I have runned into a problem and I am wondering what would be the most efficient way to go about this.</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>I have and icodome structure as seen in the pictures and I would like to create holes for the connection of the separate plates at the intersection points. Since there are quite a few plates, it would be quite difficult to do it in a manual manner. Is there any way to automate this process or make it faster? Thanks!</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Kind regards,</P><P>&nbsp;</P><P>Ignas</P><P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ianskaitis_0-1679904847394.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1193895i19CE24D1AE1218D2/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="ianskaitis_0-1679904847394.png" alt="ianskaitis_0-1679904847394.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="ianskaitis_1-1679904869652.png" style="width: 600px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1193896i206D48E0C261544B/image-size/medium?v=v2&amp;px=400" role="button" title="ianskaitis_1-1679904869652.png" alt="ianskaitis_1-1679904869652.png" /></span></P><P>&nbsp;</P> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 08:17:30 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11849817#M42179 ianskaitis 2023-03-27T08:17:30Z Re: How to make holes for the icodome connection https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11850035#M42180 <P>If that Icodome would be modeled as a large, patterned arrangement of a hand full of components, this would be easy.</P> <P>This would be easier to answer if you could share the model.</P> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 10:07:42 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11850035#M42180 TrippyLighting 2023-03-27T10:07:42Z Re: How to make holes for the icodome connection https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11850401#M42181 <P>Here is a sample file of the situation. Currently the icosphere is being created by importing a .stl file, generate face groups and converting the mesh to parametric prismatic components.</P> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 12:35:42 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11850401#M42181 ianskaitis 2023-03-27T12:35:42Z Re: How to make holes for the icodome connection https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11850896#M42182 <P>In that case you're out of luck. All the geometry ends up being&nbsp; solid bodies, so you cannot take advantage of component properties.&nbsp;</P> Mon, 27 Mar 2023 14:51:02 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11850896#M42182 TrippyLighting 2023-03-27T14:51:02Z Re: How to make holes for the icodome connection https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11853354#M42183 <P>l</P> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:39:19 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11853354#M42183 croubogekoutre- 2023-03-28T12:39:19Z Re: How to make holes for the icodome connection https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11853376#M42184 <P>I have recreated the design with singular components and bunch of circular patters. Is there a possibility to cut a hole in one of the instances of the component and make it propagate through all of them? Or what would be the approach in such a situation?</P> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 12:44:55 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11853376#M42184 ianskaitis 2023-03-28T12:44:55Z Re: How to make holes for the icodome connection https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11853454#M42185 <P>A change to one component instance automatically propagates to all instances.&nbsp;</P> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 13:05:06 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11853454#M42185 TrippyLighting 2023-03-28T13:05:06Z Re: How to make holes for the icodome connection https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11853972#M42186 <P><a href="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/user/viewprofilepage/user-id/13287112">@ianskaitis</a>&nbsp;</P><P>Can you File&gt;Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?</P> Tue, 28 Mar 2023 16:10:44 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-design-validate-document/how-to-make-holes-for-the-icodome-connection/m-p/11853972#M42186 TheCADWhisperer 2023-03-28T16:10:44Z