The Sketch-Driven Pattern tool is extremely useful for creating irregular feature patterns that can be associatively used and re-used by assembly component patterns. However, perhaps their greatest weakness is that they automatically use ALL of the center points in their chosen base sketch.
This works well if only one pattern is laid out in the base sketch; however, it causes major headaches if you want to lay out multiple patterns in a single base sketch. Right now, if you want to do this, you have to edit each sketch-driven pattern that uses the base sketch, and select and remove every point that doesn't belong in the pattern. And every time you add new points to the base sketch, you have to go back through and remove those points from each pattern they don't belong in, one by one.
The solution: it would be very handy if, in our sketch-driven patterns, we could choose between the current "auto-include" mode, and a new "select-to-include" mode. The "select-to-include" mode would only include points you select, and ignore newly-added points unless you choose to include them.
In this way, multiple sketch-driven patterns can be defined within a single base sketch, and the included points for each pattern can be easily managed from the patterns themselves.
Note: This is a (probably simpler) alternative suggestion to solve the same issue as this idea: Create "Center Point Groups" within sketches for Sketch-Driven Patterns.
