Add fitted option to Component Pattern

[Anonymous]

Please add the option to equi space or fit circular component patterns in an assembly, the circular pattern for features contains the fitted option but it is not available in the component pattern. I need to pattern 54 helical wires equally spaced around a pipe and I'm not interested in the angle between each component. I know this can achieved by specifying the angle using '360/no of instances' but it seems odd to me that the circular patterns are not standardised.

[Anonymous]

Please add an equi-spaced option to the circular pattern functionality, often I'm not interested in the angular spacing between features and I'd just like to be able to enter the total angle, number of instances and have a button to apply equal spacing as per the screenshot.

[PaulMunford]

You can do that using the 'Fitted' option: http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-B9D71D5C-C3D8-4089-A326-9DCC2B5331B1

[Anonymous]

Thanks Paul, you're correct! I didn't realize that there is a difference between the circular pattern for features and the component pattern in an assembly (new user ...) I was trying to create an equi spaced component pattern in an assembly which does not seem to support equal spacing. Please correct me if i'm wrong; I think I'll submit a new idea with the correct title and link to assemblies only.

[Anonymous]

New idea created to better describe the problem: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideastation/add-fitted-option-to-component-pattern/idi-p/5703...

[PaulMunford]

Hi Peter,

Thanks very much. I think that you are right that this option doesn't appera in the part patterning tool.

Does the pattern part to feature pattern option help you?

Paul

[mcgyvr]

You can always just use a formula in the pattern component angle box.

For example if you want 6 patterns around 360 degrees just enter  "360/6" (without the quotes) where it says 90 deg in the pattern component box..

[Anonymous]

From the original post:

I know this can achieved by specifying the angle using '360/no of instances' but it seems odd to me that the circular patterns are not standardised.

To add further to this if there was a fitted option users could update the number of instances whilst keeping the equi spaced relationship by changing just one parameter, using the '360/no of instances' route the user must update both the number of instances and the angle paramters to ensure that equal spacing is maintained.

[PaulMunford]

Hi Peter,

I can add another level to this work around. 

You can link the parameters together once the pattern has been created.

To do this, open the Parameters manager and find the two new parameters that havve just been created.

In this example:

d9 (deg) = 180 deg (Angle)

d10 (ul) = 4 ul (occurances)

To link the two, you need to strip the deg from d9, bcuase d10 only accpets ul as an input.

The formula looks like this:

d10 = isolate(d9;deg;ul) / 4 ul

Now you can change d9 to any angle you want, and d10 will update automatically.

[Anonymous]

Hi Paul, thanks for your input but I'm not a fan of the 'work around' of any description; to me it immediately translates as the long way around or an inefficient way of doing something.

Standardising the user interface for patterns on parts and assemblies would allow the user to just select the fitted option and enter the number of instances, I can't imagine that it would require a huge change to the code to add the fitted option to assembly patterns ...

[MrSmithtastic]

Working in an assembly today and once again meeting this issue. It needs sorting out. The work around is not a permanent solution and it needs to be corrected IMO.

[SorenJFox]

I'm not a fan of necroing years old threads, but this issue still hasn't been addressed. I used the workaround in an assembly today, but then I changed one dimension in one of the component parts, and the whole pattern is destroyed. The workaround is not a solution. Proper implementation of a fitted pattern in assembly is.

[inv.ideareview]

Going through the comments, it looks that this idea has been implemented. And new idea is created for the pattern requirement in assembly component.

[Yijiang.Cai]

It has been tracked as [INVGEN-56715].

[tmuel]

The (assembly environment) COMPONENT pattern tool still has this limitation in 2022. It needs a "fitted" option consistent with the (part) FEATURE pattern option. It's a minor thing, but when a new user comes from a different software package, these minor usability issues really add up.

Tim

[Yijiang.Cai]

This has been implemented within Autodesk Inventor 2024. Please review the Inventor 2024 What's New article here. For more information regarding how you may leverage the feature, and please review this page. Special thanks to everyone who cast a vote for it.