- [Instructor] In this video, I'm gonna be showing you
how to use the pattern command
for individual features, as well as individual parts.
So the first thing I wanna do is take this cutout here,
and pattern this down along this front face.
So, to do that, the first thing we need to do
is to select that feature.
It is the 'Cut-Extrude1', here it is,
and let's go ahead and create a pattern.
So over here we can choose features,
click on linear pattern, choose the direction,
and I'm gonna go ahead and just choose the top linear edge,
and let's go ahead and type in
four inches as our pattern spacing.
Instead of two we'd actually like to have four.
So let's put four of those across the surface.
Everything else looks the same.
Click on OK, and now we've added
those cuts across our parts.
So that makes it a lot easier than individually creating
those individually cut features.
Now let's go ahead and start a sketch on this front face.
So start a sketch, and I'm gonna use a center align.
I'm gonna snap to the center point of these two lines here,
and use that to create a center point rectangle.
Snap there and drag that out.
And let's go ahead and say this is gonna be
one inch tall, so 1.0,
and four inches across, so 4.0,
and let's go ahead and create a feature
which is a sheet metal base.
And we don't wanna go into the material,
so we want to switch that direction
so it's going out, or sticking out,
and we do not want to merge the result.
We want an individual body,
or an individual piece of sheet metal.
And, so we're gonna turn the 'Merge result' off.
Click on OK, and now we should have
one more sheet metal piece.
Now I can take that sheet metal piece
and continue on adding edge flanges and other things,
so in this case I'll just make the little edge flange
sticks out a half of an inch.
And you can add holes and other things,
but for right now let's just go ahead
and leave that as a basic sheet metal part.
Now what we can do is we can use
that same feature for a linear pattern.
Click on Linear Pattern,
and choose the direction,
which is gonna be the same direction we had before,
and instead of a feature itself,
I'd actually like to pattern a body.
And the body I want to pattern
is this one we just created.
Now we already have the four-inch spacing there.
We want four, but you could add more if you wanted to,
or less, depending on how many slots you have,
but we have four.
Click on OK, and just that easily,
We were able to create a cut, then pattern the cut,
and then create a body,
or a sheet metal body directly on top of it,
and pattern it as well.
So you can see using multi-body sheet metal parts
and some of these linear pattern tools,
you can really create some very complex chassis
that automatically update as you change the design.
You can use the linear pattern tools
for individual cuts, individual faces,
or individual bodies.