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Best way to pattern Honeycomb part
Connor_G_Jones
Member Posts: 4 ✭
Hello, I'm looking for the best way to make a Honeycomb wall. unfortunately my part has some "complex" geometry so I can't seem to get the fill pattern tool to work. I started by created a single cell and then orignally did multiple linear patterns to form the wall. I have tried this 2 difference ways one taking 8.91 seconds and another 3.91 seconds. This throws a flag in my brain and makes me think that there is probably a more simple efficient way that I don't know about.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9488c6ae37762abbc1ead355/w/10dc564e8253812856bd9c51/e/ae376145690db3e392b7930c?renderMode=0&uiState=69e7d383dbab1ef21e3f3bd6
If anyone has questions or has advice I'm all ears thank you!
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jelte_steur_info
Member Posts: 668 PRO
have you looked into @EvanReese's grid extrude:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/d1489499c6bfdc52ce5cf32a/v/c8434e78be6e712bab86bd1d/e/1e65c10a40f2fe803e5816de
and I've created a 'hexagonal' pattern tool for other cases:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/784dc878d42b19c14bb62f6e/v/1b822ebbc176a1ce6f121c36/e/f3c821d0e6a0efec9f85612e0
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Its hard to know exactly what you're looking for, but I hope this saves you some time.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9cb887558d3b0fb2522b0f90/w/0b74d1d48e42571a0fca1c61/e/fa756a84975569dce74dc529
Heres another one for you to play with
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9475efc7d2b70d180736de37/w/c64519094b6d87996e9823e6/e/c19a9aef97b2dc8bbc9c44e4
have you looked into @EvanReese's grid extrude:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/d1489499c6bfdc52ce5cf32a/v/c8434e78be6e712bab86bd1d/e/1e65c10a40f2fe803e5816de
and I've created a 'hexagonal' pattern tool for other cases:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/784dc878d42b19c14bb62f6e/v/1b822ebbc176a1ce6f121c36/e/f3c821d0e6a0efec9f85612e
The 'hexagonal' pattern tool was the key. I had tried the grid extrude and fill pattern already however they didn't provide quite the functionality I was looking for.
My current method was using linear patterns multiple times and resulted in long load times.
Fill pattern would throw errors, I believe due to the geometry that I was trying to pattern. Grid Extrude didn't capture the geometry I needed. Images of errors and feature below.
Fill Pattern Error
Thank you guys for your assistance!
Glad it's been of good use to more than just myself and my Featurescript coding learning