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Create rectangular feature patterns

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Create rectangular feature patterns

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- [Instructor] Let's look at how we can create a rectangular pattern of a feature. On the screen you can see a model I've created to get started with. And in the browser you can see we have a couple of features. We have extrusion one, which is our base feature, and we have extrusion two, which the hole that's cut through. Now, I want to start off by mentioning a little information about patterns in general, and I talked about this in the sketch version of this as well, and that is that I generally try to keep all my patterns at the part level. Let me show you why I do that. If we look at extrusion two in the browser, and we click the plus symbol next to it, you can see that we have a sketch that defines the position of our first hole, or our extrusion, which is our hole. And if we will need it to, we could have in that sketch, patterned that hole to create the pattern we're about the create. The reason I don't do that typically, is because once the feature is created, in order to edit…

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