From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2022 Essential Training

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 24,000 courses taught by industry experts.

Creating repeating patterns in a sketch

Creating repeating patterns in a sketch - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2022 Essential Training

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Creating repeating patterns in a sketch

“

- [Instructor] There are several different patterns that we can do in SolidWorks sketches. The first one is a Linear Sketch Pattern, which is available under the Sketch toolbar. And if you click on the little twirl down there, you can see we also have the Circular Sketch Pattern. So let's start with the first one here, Linear Sketch Pattern. And the items I'd like or the entities I'd like to pattern, let's go ahead and just choose these lines that make up this parallelogram here. And those there's our entities. And then as far as the direction, it already has the x direction selected. And you can flip that if you'd like to flip it to the other side, and then define how far or what the spacing is between these objects, right? So you can type a value in here or just use those arrows. And same thing with the dimensional x spacing, I can turn that on or off. And then how many do we want to have, right? I can just type in…

Contents