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Create rectangular pattern with rotated part.

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:35:15 GMT

New to Inventor. Trying to find the right tools to start working on modelling our products.

Is it possible to create a rectangular pattern for a part where 1 part is as iplaced, the next rotated 180° around its vertical axis? This would create a pattern like this / \ / \ / \ / \ all with the same parts.

The number of items in the pattern may be odd or even. This would imply that using 2 instances for the pattern (one / and one \) would not work.

Looking forward to see some useable solutions.

Erik

Re: Create rectangular pattern with rotated part.

mdavis22569 — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 10:44:17 GMT

Hi Erik,

Welcome to the forum ...

1st question ... What version of Inventor?

2nd ... can you provide an example ..

I had 2 ideas come to mind ..but need more info

Re: Create rectangular pattern with rotated part.

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:30:03 GMT

Thanks for you quick reply.

I have an example that a college of mine drew up. The highlighted components are the ones I'd like to pattern.

Inventor version is 2016

Erik

Re: Create rectangular pattern with rotated part.

TheCADWhisperer — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:36:55 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

....This would imply that using 2 instances for the pattern (one / and one \) would not work.

Is Suppressing the extra component when it occurs an acceptable solution?

Re: Create rectangular pattern with rotated part.

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 11:43:48 GMT

Tried that, but the supressed part still shows in the parts list.

Besides that, this request is needed to create a whole series of products. That way I need to suppres parts every other product size. Could work maybe, but not my prefered solution.

Re: Create rectangular pattern with rotated part.

mcgyvr — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 12:30:18 GMT

What about 2 patterns..

1 for the \ and 1 for the / elements

Re: Create rectangular pattern with rotated part.

mdavis22569 — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:16:56 GMT

Mcgyver idea is one of what I was thinking.

2 patterns ... much easier ...

Re: Create rectangular pattern with rotated part.

mcgyvr — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 14:22:29 GMT

@mdavis22569 wrote:

Mcgyver idea is one of what I was thinking.

2 patterns ... much easier ...

I'm a big fan of easy/simple...