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Sketching a circular pattern
ChuckKey
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I am having button trouble. I can't fathom out how to simply accept the origin default for the centre of the pattern. They always end up not fully defined.
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pick the circle pattern center, then pick something else, then hit the "i" key.
This takes the circle pattern's axis and locks it to what ever. Also, this is now the radius of the pattern.
I agree, it's not obvious how it works, but it does work. In fact it's fast.
It's weird that it throws this pattern down and then you need to lock it down. This is different than what I would expect and takes some getting use to.
I read the manual to get it working and played around with some simple geometry to get the hang of how it works.
I also believe that it won't pattern a spline which I wrote up yesterday. I haven't heard back if it is a problem or something I did wrong.
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pick the circle pattern center, then pick something else, then hit the "i" key.
This takes the circle pattern's axis and locks it to what ever. Also, this is now the radius of the pattern.
I agree, it's not obvious how it works, but it does work. In fact it's fast.
It's weird that it throws this pattern down and then you need to lock it down. This is different than what I would expect and takes some getting use to.
I read the manual to get it working and played around with some simple geometry to get the hang of how it works.
I also believe that it won't pattern a spline which I wrote up yesterday. I haven't heard back if it is a problem or something I did wrong.
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I found it easiest to drag the centre off the origing and then put it back again. I still think it strange and far from intuitive.
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It was positioned on the origin because the geometry made it so. The assignment was made by dragging. Seems like a dialog box with some help would be beneficial but all sketch actions need to be learned. Mirror requires a pre-select of a mirroring object/ then selection of the mirrored items which also threw me at first, but now I know.
As far as interfaces go, when learning, it's nice to have the hints. But after you learn them, these get in the way. It's hard to say I don't want the help when learning. But, I do want the speed after learning. Probably more the speed then hints.
I do like the speed once I've learned. The sketch circle pattern seems to be the worse of the lot.
There's no answer here, just a little sympathy.
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I don't think this is working as expected. When enable the circular pattern tool, it only allows me to select edge, not points, for center. It seems to pick the center as the origin. As @ChuckKey mentioned, the pattern center can be dragged and snapped to other points in the sketch, but from a UX perspective, it's a paint point and an extra step.
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