How to move after pattern

[thburn]

Hi,

first I want to wish all users and the F360 team a happy new year!

I have a circular pattern where I want to place 5 circles around a center point. So each 72° I have one circle. So far no problem.

After this I want to place each of the 5 circles on a different distance to the patterns central point but keep the 72°.

After the pattern is done I need a way to move each of the circles individually but this seems not to be possible since they are 'fixed' to the pattern.
So how I can move each circle indiviually after the pattern function? Can I turn the 5 circles into individual circles somehow?

Thanks a lot!

[davebYYPCU]

From your description, I don't think a circular pattern would suit the circles. 

I would pattern the five construction radial lines then place each circle in its respective radius from the centre point.

without seeing what you have done, this may help.

[thburn]

Hi davebYYPCU,

thanks for reply. Yes I could do this, but lets say I have 60 objects instead of 5 (each in distance of 6°) then your approach is very time consuming.

So I thought an easy way is to use a pattern with 60 circles then I already have the correct distance.

Then I just need to move each circle closer to the center of the patterns origin to get individual distance from the center. This for me seems to be the quicker way.

Hope it is more clear now.

[davebYYPCU]

Sorry, your reply has left me more confused, as to your goal, if all the circles are an equal distance from the centre point, a pattern should work, but your first post lead me to believe that you didn't want them on the same radius.

[thburn]

Hi davebYYPCU,

sorry for the confusion. I want to use a 'circular pattern' function to arrange all circles (or any other parts of a sketch) in a circular pattern with same angle (e.g. 5 objects 72°, 60 objects 6°).

But each circle should have a different distance to the center point of the circular pattern.

May the attached image can help. (the image shows only 5 circles as example, but in my final version I need 30, 40, 50, 60 circles)

[jeff_strater]

@davebYYPCU is correct.  Pattern will not do this for you.  Pattern is really only for patterning exact copies of geometry, including distance from the center.  I agree with him that patterning some construction geometry and positioning your instances along this line is the best approach.  Granted, it can get tedious, but there really is no other option that I can think of.

Jeff Strater (Fusion development)

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

I believe what @thburn wants to do is simply use the pattern tool as a fast way to create identiacl geometry tha can then be adjusted quickly in location.

Instaed of having to create for example 60 circles  manually.

That can be done with the pattern tool. Just click on the pattern symbol and delete it. The patterned objects are still there but now they are not tied to the parametric pattern aymore.

In this unique case that ability is actually useful, in most other cases it is rather annoying 😉

I had posted an idea in the idea station to have an option to remove the patterned objects when deleting the pattern symbol.