Is it possible to expand a circular pattern in an Assembly?

andrew_jorgensen202

I have a sub assembly of a switch. The sub-assembly allows the bat handle to be toggled and the washers to slide up and down the switch barrel. This works as expected in my assembly. However when the switch in question is put into a circular pattern it prevents me from being able to go through the various positions. 

Should I have not used circular pattern, and just inserted multiple instances of the sub-assembly? Or is it possible to somehow expand the circular pattern so that it loses the circular pattern reference and just becomes 6 instances of my switch assembly? 

Here's the link to the assembly in question:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3091571674f76746f9d3e18e/w/7aab4f6a71fd7f65dc55d9f5/e/d793696e944278174df72160

And a picture of the switch array. 

Thanks in advance!

mahir

I don't believe you can change the individual instances of an assembly pattern. I can think of two solutions. Either make each switch its own separate instance. Or, make two patterns. One pattern for On, and one pattern for Off. Then, for each position suppress the instance you don't want shown. I'd go with option one. Once assembly configurations are available, this may become easier to accomplish.

mahir

I don't believe you can change the individual instances of an assembly pattern. I can think of two solutions. Either make each switch its own separate instance. Or, make two patterns. One pattern for On, and one pattern for Off. Then, for each position suppress the instance you don't want shown. I'd go with option one. Once assembly configurations are available, this may become easier to accomplish.

philip_thomas

If you make it public, we will fall over ourselves to fix it (because engineers love to show how smart we are, over how good at typing we are)!

check out this thread . . . 

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/8442/making-a-working-mechanical-assembly

andrew_jorgensen202

@philip_thomas Did the link I post not allow you to view the document? Or are you saying I need to make it public in order to allow people to actually do more than just view? 

@mahir Makes sense, and both suggestions sound like a great solution. 

I've just been coming up to speed with OnShape over the last month, and came from a a very antiquated non parametric horrific CAD system that shall remain nameless. Needless to say that Onshape has required me completely over-hauling my modeling practices in all the right ways. Now only if OnShape could make a companion app that would restructure my brain with a version tree so I could delete my antiquated branch. 

mahir

Here's a link to the improvement request I just created for independently configured pattern instances.

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/8452/configure-instances-of-assembly-patterns