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Thank you Oliver for doing the math… It was way too late for my brain to do it. I probably would have done it today had you not.

Evan, also thank you for pointing out how late it was. LOL I meant to do part pattern. I revised my version for that. Way better than the boolean path. my regen time is twice yours for a 90 instance. I'm wondering what pc specs you are working with? as I am in the market for a new PC.

Joanna, I second Evan's comments about simplified version. A simple two circle extrude can also serve well if simplified geometry is acceptable.

You're welcome. I'm happy to help others. 😄

This is a great use of the Wrap tool! To further riff on the two good models above here's a way that's a lot faster to regenerate and more stable to changes to the number of bends.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/145db30cbd881f2619e656df/w/5a3b41ba13bb0cabef0142a3/e/5ec2ec1b5265090fbdd7c51b

• Instead of using "Feature Pattern" for the Circular Pattern then "Boolean", I changed the circular pattern to "Part Pattern" and it lets you boolean directly in the feature. The result is that it will always boolean because you aren't manually selecting all of the parts.
• Since booleaning that many solid parts together was bogging it down I only patterned a surface, then thickened the whole thing. I got the total regen time from 25.29s to 5.88s

All of that said, @Joanna_Maratos depending on what you're doing, you may not need this detail modeled at all, and you may opt to just represent the space it takes up with a very simple revolved square.