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Creating circular feature patterns

Creating circular feature patterns - Inventor Tutorial

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Creating circular feature patterns

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- We can now look at the Circular Pattern feature. This is gonna look a lot like the Rectangular feature, and very similar to 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. Let me go ahead and click that to launch the dialogue box, and in this model, I created multiple features that can be patterned. By default, we're placed in the Features Selection tool, and we can select the whole 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 do 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 already pulls an axis, and creates previews. Now, this is very similar to what you've already done in the rectangular patterns, so this should go a lot easier. What you can see…

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