Mirroring and Patterns in assemply

wayne_love

How far off is Mirroring and pattern linear and circular in OS? this is the only thing holding me back from going to Pro.

brucebartlett

@wayne_love I reckon it's being worked on and no doubt will exceed our expectations. 

3dcad

One of my use cases could be achieved in part studio but is not convenient at the current. Such case would be for example nails of closet backpanel. If I use part pattern in ps I will have part counts like 150 parts for a simple closet. That is one reason why I would do such pattern in assembly - but even if there was a way to pattern same part in ps without creating more parts; I would like to have that option also in assembly.

In Geomagic I use assembly pattern very often to multiply part or subassy and after pattern I can choose different configurations for each copy. Controlling pattern counts with parameters enables me to build automation for creating different types of products (think of chest of drawers).

andrew_troup

Are you sure it wouldn't be preferable to do that in Part Studios? The optimum workflows in Onshape are very different from those in other packages, and in many situations it's preferable to reserve Onshape assemblies for controlling relative motion. 

I realise Onshape Part Studios do not yet support being used in the way this would require, for larger projects, but I reckon that should be addressed head on, if at all possible, rather than changing horses in midstream simply because that's how users of other packages are accustomed to work.

I don't yet pretend to know if it IS possible; it may only ever be workable in smaller contexts, partly because the "relative motion" distinction becomes more artificial and difficult to justify, or even conceptualise, as projects get larger.

nav

EDIT: SHOULD HAVE READ BETTER SORRY DISREGARD MY POST

A lot of PRO users in the forum, probably you`ll get their honest opinion on this matter, as for me I must say that when mirroring or patterning a feature sometimes could get a bit frustrating because unlike SW or SE,OS does not mirror/pattern features, you have to select individual faces in order to get the desired results, there are workarounds to this using boolean operations but is just not the same. 

There is an improvement request for this: 

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/1050/feature-pattern#latest

brucebartlett

@wayne_love I reckon it's being worked on and no doubt will exceed our expectations. 

malay_kumar

@wayne_love  what is your use case of pattern in assembly? Do you need to insert part in pattern in more cases or have them follow (derived from) an underlying part feature more often?

wayne_love

Patterns don't need to be derived from a Part feature, mostly to have multiple copies  that can be changed in the assemblies, it's very tedious to insert many instances of a part or assembly.

3dcad

One of my use cases could be achieved in part studio but is not convenient at the current. Such case would be for example nails of closet backpanel. If I use part pattern in ps I will have part counts like 150 parts for a simple closet. That is one reason why I would do such pattern in assembly - but even if there was a way to pattern same part in ps without creating more parts; I would like to have that option also in assembly.

In Geomagic I use assembly pattern very often to multiply part or subassy and after pattern I can choose different configurations for each copy. Controlling pattern counts with parameters enables me to build automation for creating different types of products (think of chest of drawers).