Pattern a Hole (Feature) doesn't work!

[Beyondforce]

Hi Guys,

Maybe you can figure this out. I'm trying to pattern a hole feature, but it doesn't work. Maybe I'm doing something wrong!?

I have attached the file as well.

Cheers / Ben
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[daniel_lyall]

 Where are the the features for the hole 

[Beyondforce]

What do you mean?

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

The compute option will not do much in this case.

The problem is that when patterning an feature you need to pattern it in the same body. The feature that you want to pattern would end up in different bodies. 

[Beyondforce]

Make sanse, I completely forgot about it.

Thanks @TrippyLighting

[jeff_strater]

What I do in these cases is, instead of creating a hole, create a tool body, use pattern body to pattern the tool body around, then do a series of Combines to subtract the tool bodies from the target bodies.  It's not ideal, but it will work.

Jeff

[daniel_lyall]

the other way is to just pattern the body with the hole in it but that's yuck

[Beyondforce]

@jeff_strater & @daniel_lyall,

What I did is, I removed all the bodies except for the one with the hole, then I patterned the body with hole. It works great this way.

Now I can change one body and it will replicate to the others.

Thanks guys.

Ben.