Chapter 15: Patterning and Mirroring Components

Performance and best practice are both issues that require compromise. Patterns can cause a performance reduction because of the nature of the references. However, they can also improve performance because the need for extra mates is reduced, and it is easier to simplify the assembly by suppressing the pattern feature.

Feature-driven patterns are driven by feature patterns and transgress best practice suggestions, but they also add a parametric link, which updates the component pattern automatically. In addition, they offer many more options that are driven by the pattern options available to features in a part.

• Master It Create a new part with a feature pattern, then put that part in an assembly, and use the Patterned Part.sldprt from this chapter and pattern it using a pattern-driven pattern.
• Solution The solution should look like the tutorial example from this chapter.
• Master It Create a new assembly from a template...