From the course: Steel Building Design with SOLIDWORKS Weldments
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Patterning and mirroring structural members - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: Steel Building Design with SOLIDWORKS Weldments
Patterning and mirroring structural members
- Now one of the neat things about Weldments is that we're working in only a single part. We're not in an assembly at all here, even though we have multiple pieces and mulitple parts, we're still in one part. Now it's a multi-body part, and that gives us the ability to take those individual parts and mirror them and pattern them. And that's exactly what we're gonna be doing in this video. Now we can also do the same thing with assemblies, and we're gonna be doing that later in this series. However, right now, let's go ahead and jump in and do some patterning first. So I have this vertical member right here. And I've got this base plate directly on top of it. And I have one directly below it as well. Now I can choose the Pattern command over here, click on Linear Pattern, and do it exactly the same way I would pattern in just about anything else. Choose my first direction. That's gonna be in this direction here. I'm gonna choose the Spacing and the Amount, and then I'm gonna choose the…
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