Propagating a feature radial pattern

rmkolaks — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 01:16:16 GMT

I have pattern composed of nine radial components, think spokes on a wheel. Each spoke is a component and is the child of the single parent spoke. These spokes pass through several thin walled cylinders.

I want to cut holes in the cylinders through which each of the spokes passes.

Last evening I did this for each cylinder by:

1) Cutting the cylinder with a parent spoke.
2) Selecting the inner faces of the cut. (the spokes are not cylindrical)

3) Creating a radial pattern of the faces.

I repeated this process for the half dozen thin walled cylinders. It was tedious.

Today, as the result of the gods of gremlins invading my construction, I found it necessary to revert to an earlier version. A version from before the tedium of propagating those holes. I wondered if there might be a more direct method of hole cutting.

My first thought was to combine the radial pattern of spokes into a single body and use that as a cutting tool. I duplicated the spoke family, created a center that overlapped their bases with the hope that it would join all of the separate spokes into a single body. Didn't work. Only joined with the parent spoke.

Next I tried selecting and joining children with the parent. Once a select the parent body for joining the child bodies were not selectable, i.e. didn't work.

Then I tried moving a child body, from within its component, into the parent component. Didn't work and crashed F360.

My question, if it is not already obvious: Is there a simpler method to propagate the holes through the many thin walled cylinders than the method I described above?

..rmk

Re: Propagating a feature radial pattern

davebYYPCU — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 03:52:40 GMT

Extrude Cut the walls with the (spoke) profile.

Circular pattern the feature, 1st row,

Rectangular pattern the pattern, if multi rows.

Might help...

Re: Propagating a feature radial pattern

rmkolaks — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 05:54:27 GMT

Thank you for the suggestion. There are cases when that would work but I neglected to mention that the thin walls are concentric. Seems a forget a lot of stuff these days.

Re: Propagating a feature radial pattern

davebYYPCU — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 06:47:23 GMT

Works for me.

Might help....

Re: Propagating a feature radial pattern

rmkolaks — Wed, 14 Aug 2019 19:36:01 GMT

It might indeed. Thank you.

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