Create a Polar Pattern With a Pitch

Create a polar pattern with a pitch.

 

The instructions describe the creation of the pattern with the context-sensitive function:

1. Select the part from which you wish to create a pattern from the assembly.
2. Select the Pattern function from the context-sensitive menu.
3. Select Polar With Pitch in the dialog box of the assembly pattern.
4. Select the direction
   • Clockwise.
   • Counterclockwise.
5. If you want the pattern members not to be oriented towards the center of the pattern, select No Rotation.
   • The need for this choice is probably exceptional.
6. Enter the number of pattern members in the Circle-direction.
7. Enter either:
   • Angle at which the pattern members are placed, or
     • 360 = The members are placed at equal intervals on a full circle.
   • Delta, or the angular spacing of two pattern members.
8. Enter either
   • Pitch = Total pitch.
   • Delta = Pitch between two pattern members.
9. If you want to affect the radius of the arc of the auxiliary part, enter the Radius of the circle.
   • Note that this does not solve for the radius of the polar pattern.
10. Select OK.
11. If necessary, use the auxiliary menu functions to rotate the direction of the auxiliary part around the X-, Y- or Z-axis, either by 90°, 15° or by the angle you enter. You can also click a new reference point from the auxiliary part.
    • See: The Auxiliary Part Guiding the Part Pattern
12. Click the position of the center point of the circular auxiliary part in the assembly.
    • Note that the position of the center point of the guide curve part relative to the part to be patterned solves the radius of the polar pattern.

Example of a polar pattern

• Number in circle-direction 10, Angle 180.
• Direction: Clockwise.
• The Delta of the pitch: 200

Example of a polar pattern without rotation

• Number in circle-direction 10, Angle 180.
• Direction: Clockwise.
• Selected: No rotation, so the angle is not taken into account.
• The Delta of the pitch: 200