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Creating circular patterns

Creating circular patterns - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating circular patterns

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- [Instructor] The circular pattern tool works very similar to the linear pattern tool; however, we need an access to rotate around. So let me head up here under features, come over here to where linear pattern is and click on a little dropdown, you can see here, we've got a circular pattern directly below that, go ahead and choose that one here. My direction or my access of rotation has to be right here. So two things I can do here. One is, I can come up here to the view and I can turn on view temporary axis. As soon as I do that, notice this little, right in here, I get this axis. So if you didn't have an edge there, you could choose that axis, but we have an edge, so we can use either one. Let's go ahead and choose that little line right there. And as far as the angle, I can define the angle here, as well as the quantity. And the next thing I need to do is choose the feature or body that I'd like to pattern. So let's go…

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