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New feature: hexagonal pattern
jelte_steur814
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I ran into multiple questions of people looking for hexagonal patterns on the forum.
There are great options at the moment with 'grid extrude' and 'fill pattern', but each embed the hex pattern in an existing function and cut off 'cells' at the edges.
For those looking to purely make a hex pattern, there are ways with linear pattern as well, but all of them require some multiple of patterns/transforms to complete.
So I figured this would be a nice project to maintain my FS coding skills.
So here goes!
@all featurescript wizards:
I copied and adapted the native linear pattern feature and chose to put a lot of the underlying logic and simple math in the "computeLinearPatternTransforms" function at the bottom.
the native feature nowadays uses a builtin computeLinearPatternTransforms that includes the logic for 'skipping instances' as I understand.
Is there another way to build this feature to get the 'skip instances' functionality back?
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Oh sick! I just played with it a bit and it's nicely done.
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Nice work! Ty for sharing.
The quickest way to keep from having to change how the edit logic and manipulator functions work, would be to just use an exact copy of the original feature, then pattern the second direction at 45deg. This will give you a hex pattern. Then just delete the parts that don't fit your zone.
Like this, except in FS:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/42b61fbce002ee1c87ce57b0/w/23bc1cf5734e64946792d2b4/e/a4040ed6…
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