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Creating holes in the caddy base using the Hole and Pattern commands

Creating holes in the caddy base using the Hole and Pattern commands - Inventor Tutorial

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Creating holes in the caddy base using the Hole and Pattern commands

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- All right, so we're ready to take a look at placing some holes into our base, and we need these holes to precisely match up with our ring support pattern that we just created, the nice array of ring supports. So, in order to basically make these holes in the right place, we're going to pretty much do the same process in patterning when we create these holes. So, we'll place an initial sketch of one circle, and then we'll pattern that. So we'll kind of make multiple patterns here. You'll get a lot of practice doing that. All right, so we're 3.5 from the bottom edge, and we're 3 in, so let's take a look. First thing we want to do is open our base drawing, and you can do that any way you wish. I'll use this little Preview screen here to open it. All right, so we need to place a sketch on this top face, so let's click on that face and do New Sketch, and the first thing, like we said, we're going to actually place a circle on that face, and this circle, golly, I have Etch A Sketch brain.…

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