From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2017 Essential Training
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Creating circular patterns - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2017 Essential Training
Creating circular patterns
- [Narrator] To create a circular pattern, we need two things; one is we need something to pattern and two is something to revolve that circular pattern around; up here under features, we can click over here and then under Linear Pattern we have the drop down and we have Circular Pattern. Click on Circular Pattern and as far as our access of rotation, I can choose an outside surface or an edge. I'm going to choose this surface here which we'll then rotate around the center here; if you didn't want to choose that face I could delete that out; I could choose something like this edge right here that'll work, as well or I can create an access or a center line, either one of those would work. Choose the angle of rotation and how many of the item or instances you'd like to have and then go ahead and choose the feature you'd like to pattern. In this case, I have this Henderson screw and notice it's going all way around and we don't really want to do that, so instead of equal spacing let's…
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