Staggered Rectangular Pattern

[adamkudrzik]

it would be really great if a "staggered rectangular pattern" were to be selected with option "stagger step"

[MoshiurRashid]

Well for that we can use filled pattern.

[el_jefe_de_steak]

Another idea to implement this would be to add an "offset" for the second instance of the part.

[Anonymous]

@MoshiurRashid  I'm not familiar with "filled pattern" - can you clarify?

[MoshiurRashid]

@Anonymous I might have misunderstood it with a solidworks feature. That's called filled pattern. extremely sorry.

[Anonymous]

No problem - Solid Edge had a similar feature - it's one of the few things I think that Solid Edge had/has over Inventor.

[Anonymous]

In 3/16" thick aluminum, I have rectangle cutouts that measure 1.25"x.5". They are spaced 1.75"x1", so that there is 1/2" all around each cutout. They are staggered. I am having to make rectangular patterns within rectangular patterns within rectangular patterns (three deep) to make a screen.

A staggered array would solve this so easily!

The way I am currently doing this, I am afraid I am cutting through places where cuts already exist because I am inadvertently doubling center points, which of course takes the machine work twice as hard and adjustments take anywhere from 10 minutes to an hour. This way isn't a viable method.