- Curve Driven Patterns and the Curve Driven Pattern PropertyManager
The Curve Driven Pattern tool
allows you to create patterns along a planar or 3D curve.
- Linear Patterns and the Linear Pattern PropertyManager
You can use linear patterns to create multiple instances of one or more features that you can space uniformly along one or two linear paths. You can also pattern planes and axes.
- Circular Patterns
Use circular patterns to create multiple instances of one or more features that you can space uniformly around an axis. You can also pattern planes and axes.
- Sketch Driven Patterns
Using sketch points within a sketch, you can specify a feature pattern. The seed feature propagates throughout the pattern to each point in the sketch. You can use sketch driven patterns for holes or other feature instances.
- Table Driven Patterns
Using X-Y coordinates, you can specify a feature pattern. Hole patterns using X-Y coordinates are a common application for table driven patterns. However, you can use other seed features, such as a boss, with table driven patterns. You can also save and load the X-Y coordinates of a feature pattern, and apply them to a new part.
- Saving and Loading Table Driven Patterns
With multibody parts, you can save and load different table driven patterns for each of the different bodies in the document.
- Mirror Feature
You can use Mirror to create a copy of one or more features, mirrored about a face or a plane. You can mirror features about a secondary face or plane at the same time.
- Fill Patterns
The Fill Pattern feature lets you select an area defined by co-planar faces or a sketch that lies on co-planar faces. The command fills the defined region with a pattern of features or a predefined cut shape.
- Fill Pattern PropertyManager
The Fill Pattern PropertyManager appears when you create a fill pattern.
- Variable Patterns
You can pattern features across planar and nonplanar surfaces and vary the dimensions and references for each pattern instance.
- Cosmetic Patterns
The cosmetic pattern feature allows you to cosmetically define and display patterns of holes instead of showing fully-tessellated solid models. Rebuild time is greatly reduced because pattern geometry is only cosmetic.
- Cosmetic Pattern PropertyManager