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Creating circular patterns

Creating circular patterns - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating circular patterns

- [Instructor] The circular pattern tool works very similar to the linear pattern tool, however, we need an axis to rotate around. So let me head up here under features, come over here to where linear pattern is, and click on the little drop down. You can see here we've got a circular pattern, directly below that. Go ahead and choose that one here. My direction, or my axis of rotation, has to be right here so, two things I can do here, one is I can come up here to the view and I can turn on view temporary axes and as soon as I do that, notice this little, right in here, I get this axes. So if you didn't have an edge there you could choose that axes but we have an edge, so we can use either one. Let's go ahead and choose that level line right there, and as far as the angle, I can define the angle here, as well as the quantity. And the next thing I need to to do is choose the feature, or body that I'd like to pattern.…

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