Linear pattern a mate connector?

laird_broadfield

Mate connectors sometimes seem to be neither fish nor fowl.

Today's challenge: I have a surface, with a grid of 3x10 possible positions.  I'd like to put one mate, correctly oriented, at one position, and then pattern the one mate connector to get 30.  If mates were sketch entities, I could do that in a sketch.  If they were features, I could use feature pattern.  Neither seems to work.

Jason_S

@laird_broadfield,

Try using a Linear pattern. I Feature patterned a single mate connector over the holes here:




or you can make one hole and one mate connector and then pattern them all:



Feature pattern is very powerful.

Good luck,

Jason

Jason_S

@laird_broadfield,

Try using a Linear pattern. I Feature patterned a single mate connector over the holes here:




or you can make one hole and one mate connector and then pattern them all:



Feature pattern is very powerful.

Good luck,

Jason

john_zabriskie

Thanks, Jayson. Excellent technique! (Thanks so much for posting this, so I could find it.

jacob_roth_ritchie

Jason_S said:

@laird_broadfield,

Try using a Linear pattern. I Feature patterned a single mate connector over the holes here:




or you can make one hole and one mate connector and then pattern them all:



Feature pattern is very powerful.

Good luck,

Jason

Hello,
We are struggling with this as well. I can replicate the mate connector in a part studio, but when I insert the item into an assembly, it only shows one. If I try to replicate the mate connectors in an assembly, I cannot select them. Here is our file.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/32e30644c9ab73ab63a8c61c/w/a0ac19740904557b1faf4ca8/e/d2e5044ad839df7e55f075e4

jacob_roth_ritchie

I figured it out there is an "apply per instance button." That worked. Thank you for the excellent overview here.