Creating a Rectangular Pattern

You can create a rectangular pattern by using the Pattern command. You need to define one or two creation directions as well as the types of parameters you want to specify so that the application will be able to compute the location of the items you copied.

This task shows you how to create a rectangular pattern from three functional features.

Related Topics
More About Patterns
Creating a Circular Pattern
Creating a User Pattern
Using the Display Only Parents Option to Retrieve a Creation Context

  1. Click Pattern .

    The Pattern dialog box appears. Default options let you define a rectangular pattern.

  2. Select Protected Prism.5 as the feature to pattern.



  3. Select the xy plane to specify the first direction of creation.

    To define a direction, you can select a line or a planar face.

    An arrow indicating the direction is displayed on the solid functional set.

  4. Select the Reverse button or click the arrow to reverse the direction. The new direction is as follows:



  5. Define the parameters you want to specify. The parameters you can choose are:


    • Instances & length
    • Instances & spacing
    • Spacing & length

  6. Enter 5 as the number of instances you want to obtain in the first direction.

  7. Define the spacing along the selected direction: enter 9.5 mm. The pattern looks like this:



    Important: Defining a second direction is not compulsory. Creating a rectangular pattern defining only one direction is possible, but if you need to use a second direction, click the 2nd Direction tab to define other parameters.



  8. Click OK to confirm the operation.

    The rectangular pattern composed of 10 instances is created:



    Rectangular Pattern.X is added to the specification tree in the Solid Functional Set .X node.

    Tip: Clicking an instance once removes the instance from the specifications.