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Creating rectangular feature patterns

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Creating rectangular feature patterns

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- 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. In the browser you can see we have a couple of features, we have Extrusion 1, which is our base feature, and we have Extrusion 2, which is a 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 2 in the browser and we click the + 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. If we will need it to, we could have, in that sketch, pattern that hole to create the pattern we're about to create. The reason I don't do that typically is because once the feature is created, in order to edit it, I'm gonna have to find it in…

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