General Information About the Assembly Patterns
Parts can be arranged into a pattern in an assembly model, if you wish to fasten a part in the assembly to another part with identical bolts, or you wish to duplicate a subassembly within the assembly.
What components are selected for the pattern?
For example:
- A single part or component or multiple parts and library components.
- When you start the Pattern function from the ribbon bar, only one part can be clicked.
- If you first select parts and then the context-sensitive function Pattern, you can create a pattern from several parts at once.
- Assembly.
- Local part or an assembly.
- Pattern.
How is the pattern created?
See different ways of creating a pattern: Part Patterns of Assemblies
What can be done with the pattern?
- Hide the pattern in the assembly tree.
- Hide components from the pattern in the assembly tree.
- Change the color of components in the pattern.
- Release or fix the pattern.
- Add geometric constraints between the pattern and a part that does not belong to the pattern.
- Edit the component from which the pattern was created.
- Edit the data of the pattern.
- Change parts in the pattern.
- Edit the location of the pattern using geometric constraints.
How is the pattern edited?
- Edit the pattern data, such as member counts or intervals.
- Change the first part (link part) in the pattern to another part.
- Change the size of a library component.
- Edit the geometry of a local part.
- Edit the control part of the pattern
- Edit the direction and location of the pattern's components in the 3D sketch.
How is the pattern deleted?
Delete the entire pattern or select which parts are to be deleted.
Delete individual pattern members
Restore components deleted from the pattern. The method of restoration is affected by the method through which the pattern was added.