I am trying to create a ring with 60 holes going around it, like a clock face. I create a sketch with 2 concentric rings 150 & 160mm. Then in the sketch I drew a little circle between the rings (this will be a hole through which an LED with shine). [refer to the attached screen shot] Next, I “create circular pattern” of that little circle for 59 iterations, and it looked good. Finally, I did an extrude of the space between the 2 rings, ignoring the 60 circles. But the result was that it extruded everything except just the one original circle. It acted as if the other 59 circles didn't exist. I didn't want it to extrude any of the circles. It should appear as having 60 holes in the extruded ring. What am I doing wrong?
Those options in the dialogue box, helps fusion in the processing, I have forgotten what each means, find one that works, is all I do. Check for count number is not a coincidental typo.
Creating patterns in sketch mode has the significant disadvantage that the following features have to be updated manually when changes are made. In the pattern options, it can make sense to select "Faces" instead of a feature (from the timeline) and play around with “Adjust”, Identical.
