Comment below with ideas for designs you could use this new and cool enhancement on.įor more information, check out our YouTube channel, get a SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD quote or contact us at Hawk Ridge Systems today. Here are a few examples where I used this new feature in some of my designs. This not only will save time in the creation of your design, but also make it easier to modify in the future by not having to adjust multiple features. OPOS marks of 3mm are put around them and an OPOS XY line is added at the bottom. If the icon is clicked, then following things happen: A new layer called ‘Regmark’ is created All objects in all unlocked layers are selected. You also have the option to align rotated instances to the seed instance by checking the Align to seed box. The first icon is used to set OPOS marks around objects.
Select your number of instances, rotational reference as well as the increment angle and you can create various patterning possibilities with different outputs. In 2018, when creating a Linear Pattern, you have the option to add a rotation to each instance simply by checking the Rotate instances box.
Now with SOLIDWORKS 2018, an enhancement to the Linear Pattern feature in assemblies has been created that allows this to be done in one step! After that, a Curve Driven Pattern could be used as the final step. Then, a Helix and Spiral would be needed to create the curved shape. For example, first a circle would have to be sketched. Have you ever wanted to create a pattern of an object in an assembly, but also have every instance slightly rotated from the last? In models such as a spiral staircase, it can be time consuming to create all the features separately to achieve one simple task.
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