Creating a Circular Pattern

Create six tall cylinder extrusions with cuts and fillets evenly spaced about the central axis of the part using the Circular Pattern tool.

  1. Click View > Hide /Show > Temporary Axes.
    This shows all of the system-generated axes in the part. You select one as the central axis of the pattern.

  2. On the Features tab, expand the Linear Pattern flyout toolbar and click Circular Pattern .
  3. In the PropertyManager, under Direction 1:
    1. Select the temporary axis in the center of the part for Pattern Axis.
    2. Select Equal spacing to pattern the number of instances uniformly around the axis within 360°.
    3. Set Number of Instances to 6.
  4. Click in Features to Pattern .
  5. In the flyout FeatureManager design tree in the graphics area, select the last three features (Fillet2, Cut-Extrude2, and Boss-Extrude3).
  6. Click .