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Creating circular patterns

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Creating circular patterns

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- [Instructor] For this video, we're going to be learning about the circular pattern. Now, the circular pattern is quite similar to the linear pattern, but instead of a straight line that the pattern's going to go on, we want something to revolve around, right? We want to pattern that in a circular fashion. So the first thing I need to do is come up here to linear pattern and directly below that is circular pattern, right? So right over here is the first question is going to be, what do I want to pattern around? Now I could choose something like a vertical edge, like this one right here. I could create myself an axes if I wanted to, or I could choose something like the outside of the circle. And if you choose the outside of the circle, it automatically finds the center point of it and it's going to revolve around that. All right, so now I need some type of a feature. So my feature is going to be this countersunk hole, right? So here it is. And notice it goes around here in 360…

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