Hole propagation in a pattern
This is a current limitation of all the feature/face pattern commands - they only work if the target is a single body, so you cannot pattern holes across multiple components or even bodies within the same component.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
good question. Understand why this may be confusing. The short answer is: Hole supports cross-body/cross-component targets, but Pattern does not. You can see this in the screencast below.
The reasons why are internal and a bit complex. When you create a Hole through 3 components, there are actually 3 Hole features created behind the scenes - one for each component. These are all represented in the Timeline as a single Hole feature, but there are actually 3 of them. This is mainly done so you can do Save Copy As on a component, and bring all its features along. When you do a pattern of that Hole, we are replicating all 3 features. But, as you see in the screencast below, that pattern will not propagate to components or bodies that were not part of the original Hole.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
