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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 a 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. I'm going to choose the outside of this part here and that'll automatically add me that little axis right there in the center, click OK. Now what I'd like to to is come up to Linear Pattern and click on the drop down. Below that you can see we've got 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. We're probably not going to…

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