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Repeated feature copy
barry_fuller
Member Posts: 2 EDU
I'm trying to pattern a multi-step cutout feature across an icosahedron. Everything's working, but I was hoping for a more efficient way that simply copying each sketch and recreating each extrusion. Because of the geometry of the shape, typical pattern doesn't work. Is there some way to group a series of steps and recreate that group onto multiple faces?
The steps I'm referring to are in the folder labelled "hole" in the browser.
Thanks in advance!
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/65ee14e61c7baf14ed8b57e2/w/13a0a0b6ab8c52ad604a2a11/e/abd920d20fafcc0ed7236d98?renderMode=0&uiState=670406ded9265429a6efa3cf
Comments
Look for "transform pattern" FS, should be able to do the patterning.
Would probably be easier to create a body of your hole and pattern that sketches and extrudes
I tried the feature script, but it doesn't pattern onto the different plane of each face. Instead it keeps the original orientation.I'm not sure what you mean by "create a body of the hole" - can you explain that? Thanks.Nevermind, I figured out what you meant. Thanks for the help!
He means make a new solid part of the negative of the hole (the male). A cylinder with two ears on its sides. Pattern that part using the FS at all the locations. (it will result in a new part on each face). Then boolean subtract all those new parts from the main icosahedron shape.
It might still be a pain to get the orientation correct on all of them…