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Create circular feature patterns

Create circular feature patterns - Inventor Tutorial

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Create circular feature patterns

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- [Voiceover] We can now look at the circular pattern feature. This is going to look a lot like the rectangular feature and very similar to the circular patterns that were done in sketching. To begin we need to launch the circular pattern command and that can be found in the 3D model tab under the pattern panel here in the middle. I'm going to go ahead and click that to launch the dialog box and in this model I created multiple features that can be patterned. By default we're placed in the feature selection tool and we can select the hole and the keyway and next we need to select a rotation axis. By left clicking on the arrow we can move into that mode and all we need to is select a circular face or a circular edge that Inventor can extract an axis from. By left clicking on this face on the side You can see Inventor automatically pulls an axis and creates previews. Now this is very similar to what you've already done in the rectangular pattern so this should go a lot easier. What you…

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