- Hey guys, let's talk about patterns.
Now, patterns are a very useful tool inside of Solid Works
especially if you're making some type of a grid
or a bunch of holes in your part.
There's a lot of uses for patterns.
Now keep in mind though, if we're creating patterns
it's creating a lot of geometry very quickly
in which you can slow down your computer.
So I generally recommend if you're going to make patterns
save them towards the end of your part, but to get started
let's head up here under the feature tools
come over here to linear pattern
click on that one, right there, choose a direction, right?
I want to choose a direction.
I'm going to choose an edge or a face.
I can choose a face like this one right here
and I can switch the direction.
So it's going that way. And then I of course
I have to choose what I'd like to pattern, right?
So I can choose features or faces.
I'm going to choose a feature to pattern
which is going to be that little cut right there.
So there's my cut.
And notice it only moved a little bit.
So let's go ahead and make that a little bit bigger.
So I'm going to click on this little box right here
and just make this pattern a little bit further.
Let's zoom in so we can see what's going
on here so I can see there's my pattern.
And I'm making two of them. But if I want to make more
it's easy to do just click on this little
up arrow here and you can make patterns across the part.
Now that's not all we can go in another direction.
How about this direction?
Number two, click over here, direction two.
I'm going to choose this face right here
and notice the arrow's going the wrong way.
So let's click on this little reverse direction icon.
And instead of one, I'd like to have multiples.
So let's go ahead and make a different pattern here
and space those out a little bit.
So you can see you've got some spacing here
and I can pattern it this direction too.
The other thing I could do though
is I could pattern the seed only, right?
If I'd want to do a pattern like that
and not fill everything in between, that's another option.
So click over there.
Notice I am patterning a feature itself
but I could also pattern a face if I wanted to
or I could pattern a body.
So you can really start getting some powerful things.
When you start patterning bodies, right?
You can have multi body parts.
So a bunch of things you can do there,
but once you have what you're looking for,
go ahead and click on the green check mark,
and there you've got your part.
Now I do love that feature.
That is called patterning for bodies.
Let's go see if we can make that happen.
So come up here, linear pattern.
One more time, the body that I want to pattern
I don't want to feature pattern.
I want to do a body.
I want to pattern this entire thing, right.
And my direction, I want to go in this direction here.
So I'm going to choose that. And let's flip it the other way
and we need a little bit bigger spacing, right?
So we got to space that out, because it's just way too close.
And let's see let's type in a value here
because it's going to take a while.
So 20. now look at that.
I can just pattern this all day across here.
Of course it's creating a huge amount of geometry
so click okay and let Solid Works do its thing.
But now we've got all these bodies.
We have a multi body part going across the entire
screen and you can see in this box here, I have 10 bodies.
So this is a great way to do a whole bunch of
work very quickly and let Solid Works do most of it.
So that is both patterning a linear pattern of
a feature as well as patterning a body.
And of course we could go in multiple directions
with this as well.
Definitely take a look at that tool.
It's a very powerful tool inside of Solid Works
and is definitely one of my favorites.