Feature Patterns

General

  • A feature pattern is always created from a "parent" feature already in the model.
  • The parent feature can be a feature based on a sketch, a sweep, a loft, or a library feature.
  • You can create a feature pattern from more than one feature. For example, a hole with a rounded edge.
  • A feature pattern is created by copying the parent feature linearly in length and/or width direction or polarly on a circle or cylinder surface.
  • When you edit the data of the parent feature, the features in the pattern are updated automatically.
  • Other members of the pattern cannot be edited individually.

Selecting a Feature for a Feature Pattern

  • Select a parent feature, which can be a sketch-based feature, sweep, loft, or library feature. Make a selection by clicking a feature in the feature tree or selecting a feature surface in the model.
  • If you want to create a feature pattern from a rounding or a bevel, you must also include in the pattern creation the feature to whose geometry the rounding/bevel has been added.
  • You can later add features to an existing pattern.

Linear feature patterns

  • A feature pattern can only be a sequence of features in one direction.
  • A feature pattern can be a two-way matrix of features that can be perpendicular or at an angle to each other

A polar feature pattern in a plane

  • A feature pattern can form a full circle or an arc.

A feature pattern on a cylinder surface

Table feature patterns

  • You can also create a feature pattern by adding the locations of the features to a table.
  • You can control the table with Excel in addition to Vertex G4.

Editing a Feature Pattern

  • You can modify the parent feature, changing all the members of the pattern.
  • You can change the number and location of the members of a feature pattern.
  • You can change the location of a feature pattern by editing the sketch of the pattern.

In the image below, the diameter of the parent feature has been modified.

In the image below, the values of the linear feature have been edited

Edit a Feature Pattern

Deleting a feature pattern