Beginner question: how to do this most efficiently

[brettigX95TR]

Good morning,

I want to create a triangle with hexagons inside. The border of the triangle needs to have a wall thickness of 2mm and each of the hexagons also needs to have 2mm walls. I later will extrude this to 2mm thickness. I hope the explanation makes sense. The end result will look like this:

I tried to create this using a rectangular pattern. I managed to create the hexagon pattern in the triangle (which included some copy & paste), but then I couldn't find a way to create an offset of the lines, because it wouldn't allow me to select all lines. I then restarted and drew the triangle and a hexagon. I offset both of them and then carefully placed each hexagon inside. That was very tedious. I there an easier way to do this?

thank you,

Bjorn

[davebYYPCU · Accepted solution]

Like this? 

From this sketch - workflow is not so simple, but you were using sketch pattern, and not the way to go.

Step up the timeline, happy to answer questions.

Might help...

[brettigX95TR]

Thank you - it makes perfect sense what you did there. I need to learn when to use a sketch and when to use objects.

[g-andresen · Accepted solution]

Hi,

just another way to reach the goal

günther

[brettigX95TR]

you guys know magic!