Circular pattern of construction planes

[slipperysubs]

I need to split the face of a dome-shaped 3D surface into multiple sections with reference planes passing through the central axis. I use a parameter to set the number of sections. How would I make a circular pattern from an initial plane since it is not a selectable option?

[TrippyLighting]

Construction planes cannot be patterned directly. You could create a component with a construction plane in it and pattern the component, but that would be a convoluted workaround for this particular task.

A sketch with a patterned line should work perfectly fine as a splitting tool.

[slipperysubs]

That was what I attempted first, but I can’t select the sketch to split the face by projecting it onto the 3D surface?

[TrippyLighting]

Ahh, yes, that does not work too well 🙂

Extrude the line into a surface and then pattern that.

This splits the face. The rest of the timeline behind the marker unstitches the separate faces into separate bodies.

Model is attached.  

[slipperysubs]

I see how that works, but if I set a parameter for the number of segments and later change that, it does create the additional cutting surfaces in the circular profile, but subsequent steps don't include those.

[TheCADWhisperer · Accepted solution]

@slipperysubs 

Can you File>Export your *.f3d file to your local drive and then Attach it here to a Reply?

Why not create one “pie piece” and pattern that.  Would be fully parametric.