Option to lock patterned components from being moved

[kb9ydn]

Right now in Fusion, patterned components can be moved by a simple click and drag action.  Allowing the pattern feature to be used as (essentially) a duplication method is a cool idea, but it violates the concept of what a pattern is in the first place, which is a regularly ordered group of entities.  Therefore I think there should be a toggle box in the pattern creation dialog that locks the patterned components from being moved.  This would allow for the most design flexibility while maintaining the basic concept of a pattern.

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[TravisJoe]

I agree, I prefer the workflow that the pattern is driven from the parameters and should be locked by default unless you select otherwise. 

Usually if I take the time to pattern objects I want them to stay in the defined pattern. 

[benoitD336P]

Yes, this is an annoying problem, it forces you to add joints to all the patterned components individually.

That's kind of counter productive when you have a large number of them. Even with 10 it takes forever.

Especially because the Joints panel disappear after each Joint you add, it would be a lot better if this panel would stay open or if you could add the joint to multiple components in the same time.

[Anonymous]

How is this not implemented yet? This is a huge pain with lots of patterned components.

[8thrule]

Agree.

Locked should be the default. Members of the pattern could be jailbroken individually or en masse after locked pattern generation.

[mikec2E3L3]

If I create a pattern then that is the pattern I want. If it's not then I edit the parameters of the pattern. Why would you have additional steps after making a pattern to lock it down? When making the pattern in the first place is a way of saving time.

[TravisJoe]

I feel the point is that the pattern should be locked into the parametric configuration and not be an unconstrained sketch afterwords. A lot of potential changes can happen when you do not want them to if the sketch is not constrained fully.