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Creating circular patterns

Creating circular patterns - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating circular patterns

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- [Instructor] The circular pattern command works very similar to the sketch circular pattern command. What it needs is an axis of rotation and then the feature you'd like to pattern. So in this case here, we have this little hole here, this countersunk hole. I'd like to pattern around the shape here. Now, I have a line here I could probably pattern around. But we probably want to add something like an axis. So before we do that let's go up to Reference Geometry, come down to Axis, and let's go and choose this one here, which is a Cylindrical or Conical Face. I'm going to choose that one there. And I'm going to choose just the outside of this part here. And that will automatically add me, that little axis, right there in the center. Click Okay. Now, what I'd like to do is come up to Linear Pattern, and click on the drop down below that. You can see we've go Circular Pattern. And while we're here, I do want to point out, you've got a bunch of other types of patterns down here as well…

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