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How can I resize a large number of sketch entities without changing their location?
alex_goldman057
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I am working on a part studio where multiple parts with linear patterns of holes need to overlap so the holes maintain their concentric relationships. I have done this by taking the original sketch with my hole pattern and copy/pasting it into other sketches from which I am extruding the various parts. I assumed that the linear pattern constraint would survive copy/paste so that, in the sketch where I need the holes to be smaller but still on the same hole pattern, I could just resize the hole that the pattern is based on, but the problem is the initial sketch with the desired hole pattern is a shape with the correct hole pattern that is then repeated with another linear pattern (a pattern within a pattern). I have since had to release that pattern to make adjustments, so the enveloping shapes are still multiples, but no longer constrained by a pattern, even though they have holes that are placed according to a specific pattern. All that is to say, I now have something like 200 holes that I want to resize. Is there a tool I can use to resize all of them at once without changing their locations? Either in the sketch or in their resulting parts?
Thanks in advance.
Comments
Use of the equals constraint on each circle in sketch might be helpful.
You most likely would be better off using feature patterns instead of sketch patterns. Sketch patterns can be very powerful and useful, but in most cases, if you can do it with a feature pattern, you probably should.
Here is a sample of linear pattern within linear patter using configurations. You can add more detail for hole spacing and calculated lengths and widths to suite your logic and needs.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/dce3c5f6c9717f40901277de/w/fcaab14d969087547cdfbe2a/e/b77cfd81f97bc5294736fe72
I may have misunderstood the question, but could this be done with a variable?
This may be what glen is talking about.