topic Re: Assembly Pattern in Inventor Forum

Assembly Pattern

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:15:41 GMT

When in an assembly how do i pattern along a sketch. I have a NBW that i want to follow a sketch which has the holes already ion place?

What method would i use as there seems no option for curve driven pattern with Rectangle Tool

Thanks

Fred

JDMather — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:27:33 GMT

Attach the *.ipt file here that has the holes.

Did you use a Curve Driven Pattern for the Holes?

Post#8

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:30:02 GMT

these are the 2 files. These are 2013 files

Yes - curve driven

Fred

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:31:58 GMT

ok i will also check out post-8

thanks

JDMather — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 14:54:02 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:

Yes - curve driven

Fred

Fantastic - you did it the right way.

You don't need a sketch in the assembly - you will pick the pattern from the part file to follow that pattern.

There is a little bit of a hidden trick. I think back in 2013 you had to make the part features visible in the assembly.

Anonymous — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 15:10:26 GMT

Yes i found it by trial/error and it worked.I than tried it without the sketches and it still worked

I got it to work in the assembly mode. I will try the modelling view now

Thanks again

Fred