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With a little creativity in the sketch this method can extrapolate out well. With those options set, we will get the picture we see in the first screen shot
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#SOLIDWORKS 2019 CHANGE LINEAR PATTERN DIRECTION FULL#
There is an option for Full Preview but as it may take some time to calculate you have to ask SOLIDWORKS to display it. The second is that the preview is not automatically calculated. The first is that we are using Vary Sketch and not Instance to Vary. Here is what the property manager will look like Without that the Vary Sketch Option will be greyed out.
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The important thing to remember is that direction one has to be the 0.500 dimension reference. The pattern feature starts out life like any other feature. If we were to manually modify the 0.500 dimension on the left this is what would happen when SolidWorks recalculates the tangent relations on the slot That is the key to getting this pattern to work It is controlled by the position of the two Arcs. If you notice in the sketch below the length of the slot is not defined. This starts with the sketch for the very first slot. As you can see the slot length varies for every instance. Here is a screenshot of the first example we’ll discuss today. That dimension is the key as what SOLIDWORKS is really going to do is change that dimension and rebuild the sketch for every instance of the pattern Let’s explore this option a bit to show you some interesting ways to use it.įor a little bit of background, for the Vary Sketch to work it does require that the Pattern feature use a dimension from the seed feature sketch as a direction reference. Buried in the options since almost the beginning of time, and sometimes forgotten, has been a “Vary Sketch” option. SOLIDWORKS has always had many ways to create dynamic, powerful pattern features.