Introduction and a question

[vcutajar]

Hi all

I am semi-retired and my hobby is building small model engines in my workshop.  As I am away from home for some time I thought I would virtually build my current project in CAD.  The only problem is that I have never used CAD in my life.

So, I installed Fusion 360 with a hobbyist licence.  After one month I managed to get to this point in my virtual build (see first attachment).  Not a lot but I am just a beginner.  I was so happy to see all the linkages move in unison.  I am sure that I came to this point not in the most efficient way.

Now to the question.  I am now drawing the cylinders for this steam engine and would like to draw six holes around the face of the cylinder face with a particular PCD (see second attachment).  I thought that I would be able to do this with the Circular Pattern in either Sketch or Create but I just can't get it to do exactly what I want.  I spent a whole day playing around with the Circular Pattern with no success. I am sure there is an obvious way of doing it, but can see it.

I now have decided to sketch and move all the holes individually but still would love to know how to do it with Circular Pattern.  Any help would be appreciated

Vince

[HughesTooling]

Hi Vince

I just did a screencast for something similar not exactly the same but might help. Link to HELP on patterns.

Mark

[Beyondforce]

Hi @vcutajar

Could you be more specific to how you want the hole pattern? I'm trying to understand what exactly doesn't work! If you could make a screencast, that would be really helpfull.

Ben.

[JDMather · Accepted solution]

It is possible to Circular Pattern in sketch, but -

it is almost always better to create one hole and then do a Circular Pattern of the feature rather than the sketch entity.