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Create linear and circular patterns - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Learning SOLIDWORKS
Create linear and circular patterns
- [Instructor] Linear and circular patterns are a great way to take one cut or one feature in pattern all the way across your part. If you didn't have this tool, it take you a lot of work to individually create each one of those sketches or create a very complicated sketch with all these individual features in it. But right now, what I can do is just create a hole like this one here and then use the linear pattern tool to pattern that across my part. So the first thing I need to choose is which direction I want to go in. So I can either choose something like an edge, like this edge here, going along that direction, or I can choose a face. All right, and notice this little arrow here, I can flip that or over to the other side, so I'm going the other direction. And let's go ahead and choose this actual hole right here. So I'm going to choose a little twirl down here and I'm going to choose cut extrude number one, but I…
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