Table driven patterns

[sth]

Dear Community,

I'm sure that this idea isn't new. But we heavily miss this feature in Inventor - and we switched from PRO/E to Inventor so the users have this feature in mind and have lots of effort to work around in Inventor. Every year we expect that it's added to Inventor, but until today it isn't 

We've often feature or component patterns which cannot be patternded by the Inventor feature but by a table. For Inventor this is mission impossible, for Pro/E or SWX no problem.
Have a look at SWX online help how the feature table driven pattern works:

http://help.solidworks.com/2014/English/solidworks/sldworks/HIDD_PATTERN_TABLE2.htm

The same for Pro/E

http://www3.eng.cam.ac.uk/DesignOffice/cad/proewild3/usascii/proe/feature/part_six_sub/example__crea...

SWX hasn't a table driven component pattern, but you can reference the component pattern to a table driven feature pattern. In this point

Pro/E (Creo) is more powerful.

Unfortunately I did not find any nice description for the Pro/E component table driven pattern, only the description how to launch:

http://www3.eng.cam.ac.uk/DesignOffice/cad/proewild3/usascii/proe/asm/asm_four_sub/to_assemble_comps...

Please excuse if this isn't a new idea, I searched for it but had no matches for this keywords 

Cheers,

Thomas

[dusan.naus.trz]

Hi technique

you are super, I would like to know too. Maybe in the future? That code did not work, please send a video about how it is done. I'd like to see your work on the video.

[Anonymous]

Hi nausd, I think your last reply was for this post: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/table-driven-patterns/idi-p/5539383. I will try to prepare screen shots of the macro working and post it.

[dusan.naus.trz]

Pattern in Assembly and Frame generator is completely useless. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L39TGtNTIKM&feature=youtu.be

[dusan.naus.trz]

Hi, please watch the video on the link.

Just perfect

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXbV1rFr7FY

[dusan.naus.trz]

@Anonymous screen shots of the macro still nowhere.-)

[Anonymous]

Absolutely, creating a varying pattern manually takes a long time and a surprising amount of processing power which makes any modifications to the design take even longer.  Table driven patterns would be an excellent feature. 

[filippo.toniello]

still miss creo for this capability

[dusan.naus.trz]

I really miss this functionality. It would be very useful to implement it as soon as possible. This image is only 10% of the whole device.
The lack of functionality makes my job very difficult and I waste a lot of time reconnecting parts and assemblies.

I create production lines, conveyors and cranes and I am very bothered by missing features such as pattern table and assembly mirroring (constrains)

[dusan.naus.trz]

I would like to know in which century this functionality will be implemented?

[markhoward2]

C'mon Autodesk, where is the love for this? I currently need a pattern with 4 holes equally spaced, then 3 more at close space, then 4 holes equally spaced, then finish or maybe repeat first two again. I'm currently cheating it with a pattern along a curve which is  an accordion of lines half the pitch so I can controls spacing. That works great for a simple pattern that repeats. But when I want 3-3-4-3-4-3-3 the iLogic to control the spacing gets to be a large Select Case...

Pro/E has been doing this since the 90's, and it appears SW has it now too.

[sth]

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