Creating Hole Patterns

ameliab

Does SU have any hole pattern functions? I can't seem to find one. I have a line of 120 holes on 1" centers, and I don't want to have to make 120 copies of the circle. This is a simple function in Solidworks, so I assume SU must have something similar.
amelia

KXI System

I think your're asking how to make a repeated copy, follow these simple steps:

dedmin

@ameliab said:

Does SU have any hole pattern functions? I can't seem to find one. I have a line of 120 holes on 1" centers, and I don't want to have to make 120 copies of the circle. This is a simple function in Solidworks, so I assume SU must have something similar.
amelia

Must have??? Free software against 10 000$ Gorilla! And it is simple to apply but under the hood is a lot more! You can select the hole and copy it just like any other object in SU - as was mentioned above. And using rotate while holding CTRL You can make radial array

pilou

Or like this

Jean Lemire

Hi folks.

See attached file for ideas.

Sorry for the size, I could have used les segments for my circles.

Array of holes.skp

muchado

@dedmin said:

@ameliab said:

Does SU have any hole pattern functions? I can't seem to find one. I have a line of 120 holes on 1" centers, and I don't want to have to make 120 copies of the circle. This is a simple function in Solidworks, so I assume SU must have something similar.
amelia

Must have??? Free software against 10 000$ Gorilla! And it is simple to apply but under the hood is a lot more! You can select the hole and copy it just like any other object in SU - as was mentioned above. And using rotate while holding CTRL You can make radial array

Can one do this in a dynamic component? I wanted to created a "troughed slab" (also known as a "ribbed slab") by repeating a depression across a cuboid, but SU does not make the cut in the surface for the copies.

Using SU DC's to model repeated depressions in a slab

muchado

@muchado said:

Can one do this in a dynamic component? I wanted to created a "troughed slab" (also known as a "ribbed slab") by repeating a depression across a cuboid, but SU does not make the cut in the surface for the copies.

Sorry, it appears that this has been answered before:
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=23096
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=21449
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=18651
http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=289&t=17054

The problem appears to be that SU does not do this. However there appear to be at least one work-around that involves creating the positive volumes and then hiding the lines of the joins. I had thought about joining pieces together, but thought that I would be stuck with the edges, but using the trick of "hiding" the edges solves the problem.