Patern References

I want to patern an axis. I have a square hole and placed an axis at the
center. I patterned the hole. The thing is I want to be able to patern the
axis with it as a reference to the center of the hole for mating. Anyone
have any ideas on referencing the center of these other square holes without
creating 2 planes and an axis for each.

Corey Scheich

 

you could use a pattern sketch (circular sketch step & repeat)

 

you're not gonna put a round peg in that square hole, are ya? ;o)

is there a reason why you don't use a component pattern so you don't
have to mate the parts individually?

....or pattern a dummy extruded circular surface ... except that you
can't pattern surfaces with other features (surfaces are considered
"bodies" rather than "features"), ...plus extruded surfaces make a temp
axis, but patterned surfaces don't... hmm, ok, so make a sketch pattern
and extrude the circles to make temp axes... crap, it only puts a temp
axis on the surface created by the first circle drawn, ...ok, pattern a
separate dummy cylindrical solid body... again, you can't pattern
bodies with features... ok, make 2 separate patterns, one for the
feature and one for the dummy cylindrical solid body. That'll give you
temp axes, but its a pretty ugly way to do it.

I give. I can't think of a good way to do that.

 

I made a sketch with 3 circles constrained to the centers and extruded it as
surfaces this works although if you hide the bodies you also hide the
centerlines. So I had to make them 100% transparent.

Thanks all for the ideas. I only wish there was a clean way.

Corey Scheich