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Linear and circular patterns

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Linear and circular patterns

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- [Instructor] Linear and circular patterns are used quite a bit in the certification exams. I'm going to go through a couple examples of how to use both of those. So first off, I have a part here, and I want to make a circular pattern. So I'm going to choose this front face here, click on OK. Click on Normal To, and then go ahead and start a sketch. And I'm just going to draw a simple circle. Now, I'm going to define that bolt hole circle by the center point here. I'm going to snap that to the center of the circle. Now I'm going to go ahead and choose a dimension here. I'm going to say 225. And then I want to make this circle here construction geometry. So I'm going to click on Construction and switch that over to Construction Geometry so it knows where it is. I'm going to use another centerline from the origin to the center of the circle, and then I can define that angle. All right, and that angle here, I'm going to call it 20 degrees and then define the size of that circle with a…

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