Creating a Rectangular Pattern

You can create a rectangular pattern by using Pattern. You need to define one or two creation directions as well as the types of parameters you want to specify so that the app will be able to compute the location of the items you copied.

This task shows you how to create a rectangular pattern from three functional features.

See Also
About Patterns
Creating a Circular Pattern
Creating a User Pattern
Using the Display Only Parents Option to Retrieve a Creation Context
  1. From the Transform section of the action bar, click Pattern .
    The Pattern dialog box appears. Rectangular Pattern is the default option.
  2. Select a feature to pattern.


  3. Select the first direction of creation.
    To define a direction, you can select a line or a planar face.

    An arrow indicating the direction is displayed on the solid functional set.

  4. Select Reverse or click the arrow to reverse the direction.


  5. Define the parameters you want to specify. The parameters you can choose are:
    • Instances & length
    • Instances & spacing
    • Spacing & length.
  6. Enter the number of instances you want to obtain in the first direction.
  7. Define the spacing along the selected direction.


    Important: Defining a second direction is not compulsory. Creating a rectangular pattern defining only one direction is possible, but if you need to use a second direction, click the 2nd Direction tab to define other parameters.
  8. Click OK to confirm the operation.


    Rectangular Pattern.X is added to the tree in the Solid Functional Set .X node.

    Tip: Clicking an instance once removes the instance from the specifications.