topic Re: Patterning a Feature across the mid plane in Inventor Programming Forum

Patterning a Feature across the mid plane

Anonymous — Wed, 12 Apr 2017 18:17:04 GMT

Afternoon Everyone,

I finally figure out how to pattern a feature but now I can't get it pattern from the mid plane. It's probably something simple but I can't see it. Would really appreciate some help. Thanks

Dim objCol As ObjectCollection
Set objCol = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateObjectCollection
Call objCol.Add(oPartDef.Features("Extrusion1"))

Set oRecPat = oPartDef.Features.RectangularPatternFeatures.Add(objCol, oPartDef.WorkAxes.Item("X Axis"), False, 98, 1, kDefault, , _
oPartDef.WorkAxes.Item("Y Axis"), True, 1, 1, kDefault, , kIdenticalCompute, kIdentical)

Set oRecPat.Definition.XDirectionMidPlanePattern = True

Re: Patterning a Feature across the mid plane

Owner2229 — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 06:01:46 GMT

Here you go, RED is what I've changed:

Dim oDoc As Document = ThisApplication.ActiveDocument
Dim oPartDef As ComponentDefinition = oDoc.ComponentDefinition
Dim oCol As ObjectCollection = ThisApplication.TransientObjects.CreateObjectCollection
oCol.Add(oPartDef.Features("Extrusion1"))

Dim AxeA As WorkAxis = oPartDef.WorkAxes("X Axis")
Dim AxeB As WorkAxis = oPartDef.WorkAxes("Y Axis")

Dim oRecPat As RectangularPatternFeature = oPartDef.Features.RectangularPatternFeatures.Add(_
oCol, AxeA, False, 98, 1, PatternSpacingTypeEnum.kDefault, , AxeB, True, 1, 1, _
PatternSpacingTypeEnum.kDefault, , PatternComputeTypeEnum.kIdenticalCompute, PatternOrientationEnum.kIdentical)

oRecPat.Definition.XDirectionMidPlanePattern = True

Re: Patterning a Feature across the mid plane

Anonymous — Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:32:45 GMT

Awesome, Thanks!

The whole time I was trying to mess with XDirectionMidPlanePattern, no wonder I couldn't get it working.