Progressively smaller feature patterning

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• _anton Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 428

  March 20 edited March 20

  The basic pattern is: control the size of your design with a variable, make a second variable feature that overrides the variable's value (like #width - 3mm), then feature-pattern your design and that second variable feature. Make sure you check "Reapply features".

  Example: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f0026cadaa5945ab52dedc46/w/d23b502102247834027defe9/e/58347954cbfc31dba1cf42d2

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• EvanReese Member, Mentor Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 20

  @_anton nailed it, but depending on what you're trying to do you might also be interested in my Attractor Pattern custom feature that can do some more complex things like this.

  

  Evan Reese
  Independent Onshape Consultant | Industrial Designer
  

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• jelte_steur814 Member Posts: 375 PRO

  March 21

  you could try the increment variable FS put that in your linear pattern (feature pattern) and indeed make sure 'reapply features' is on.

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• EvanReese Member, Mentor Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 21

  @jelte_steur814 Cool feature!

  Evan Reese
  Independent Onshape Consultant | Industrial Designer
  

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• timothy_stasa Member Posts: 6 EDU

  March 24

  Thank you so much this has been invaluable:)😊

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• timothy_stasa Member Posts: 6 EDU

  March 24 edited March 24

  one thing. i did the curve pattern like _anton's example showed but nothing happened to the width. is there something i'm missing?

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• timothy_stasa Member Posts: 6 EDU

  March 24

  here's the link to my studio: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/5be5952b4924d60d6316090b/w/740e90393aa857e52788596e/e/e3c0d8ddc567af847e8f946a

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• EvanReese Member, Mentor Posts: 2,301 ✭✭✭✭✭

  March 24

  I don't have access to view it. You'll have to make the document public. Without looking the first thing to check is that your second, but not first width variable has been included in the Linear Pattern feature as a feature to pattern. So for example you may have an initialized variable for #width = 5 mm or something, then later you have #width = #width + 2 * mm.The second one is the one to include in the pattern feature, since it's the one you want to re-run every time.

  Evan Reese
  Independent Onshape Consultant | Industrial Designer
  

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• timothy_stasa Member Posts: 6 EDU

  March 25

  Sorry about the document sharing it is now public. I did include the second variable in my experiment part studio 2 but it generated the result different even though I'm pretty sure I did everything right. But the document is available to view, share, edit, etc…

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• timothy_stasa Member Posts: 6 EDU

  March 25

  I believe i solved my problem. thank you so much for the assistance

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