- Geometry Pattern
The Geometry Pattern option speeds up the creation and rebuilding of a pattern. Individual instances of the feature being copied are not solved; end conditions and calculations are ignored. Each instance is an exact copy of the faces and edges of the original feature.
- Seed Feature
The original feature for any type of pattern (linear, circular, sketch driven and so on) or mirrored pattern, is called the seed feature. You can edit this feature.
- System Options for Patterns
- Vary Sketch
Select the Vary Sketch option to let the pattern instances change dimensions as they repeat.
- Varying Dimension Patterns
The Instance to Vary option in the Linear and Circular Pattern PropertyManagers allows you to vary the dimensions and locations of instances in a feature pattern.
- Pattern Deletion
- Patterns of Patterns
With multibody parts, you can create a pattern that includes some or all of the multibody parts that you used to create the original multibody part pattern. You can use any of the patterns such as linear, circular, sketch driven, and so on.
- Centroid
If you select centroid as the reference point for a table-driven or sketch-driven pattern, the system determines the centroid based on the type of seed feature.