From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2018 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Creating repeating patterns in a sketch

Creating repeating patterns in a sketch - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2018 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial

Creating repeating patterns in a sketch

“

- [Instructor] There are a couple different ways to create patterns inside of Solidwork sketches. The first one is going to be the Linear Sketch Pattern. If you click on this icon right here, you can see we can get into that tool. Now, my first option is the direction, which is going to be the X-direction you can see here, which is going to be going to the right, and I can choose the pattern spacing, which is going to be right here, and I can then choose which piece of the sketch I'd like to actually pattern. So in this case let's go down here and choose the entities to pattern. So in this case, let's go ahead and select these lines here or just window around them, so I can just select each one of these lines, and those are the lines we want to pattern. Or you can just go ahead and preselect those lines, and then come up here to Linear Sketch Pattern. So a couple of different options to how you can do that. Now, in this box right here you can use the up or down arrows to adjust that…

Contents