Chapter 9: Patterning and Mirroring

Feature patterns and mirrors are powerful tools, but you must have some discipline to benefit from their usefulness. Patterns in particular are extremely flexible, with many types of functions and options available. You should avoid sketch patterns if possible, not only because of performance considerations, but also because complex sketches (sketches with lots of entities and relations) tend to fail more often than simple sketches.

• Master It Create an irregular sketch region on a flat face of a solid part of your choosing, add a hole inside the irregular region, and then use the Fill Pattern feature to fill the region with patterned holes.
• Solution Use the Reference Fill Pattern.sldprt part from the download material as a reference to examine how a fill pattern is made.
• Master It Create a two directional linear pattern where the directions are not perpendicular to one another.
• Solution Use the Reference Curve Driven Pattern...