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cdspk1-Visitor
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January 10, 2013
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  • January 10, 2013
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OK, here's the pattern (image attached) - a revolved spherical dimple on a revolved non cylindrical surface. I want the dimple patterned in two directions - very approximately a cylindrical grid - around the revolved surface and along the surface. Easy enough on a true cylinder but keeping the dimple following the curved surface is the tricky bit,


cheers, Sean


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rreifsnyder15-Moonstone
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May 21, 2013
John is exactly right. It is doing the "Turbo" pattern but in a much simpler way. It is basically a packaged set of commands that does a surface copy, then patterns, then solidifies in one step.

Rob Reifsnyder
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eslotty1-Visitor
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May 22, 2013
I've gone so far as to redefining the patterned object to be a surface quilt, pattern the quilts, export/import the quilt using a strategically placed coordinate system (IGES lets you select the quilt you want to export), then do a solidify to make a one feature cut... Then the original pattern is suppressed for retrieval if changes are required (not that things ever change ;-).... Seems like a lot of work but really cuts down on the regen times......

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rreifsnyder15-Moonstone
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May 22, 2013
In fact, with an array that big (30 X 26) you could do a pattern of a pattern using Geometry Pattern and it will really speed things up. The 26 is a little limiting, but you could do an initial Geom. Pattern of something like 5 X 13, then pattern the result of that 6X2. I did a test once on a simple square cutout patterned 50X50. Even using Geom. Pattern it took 22 minutes. Creating a 10X10 Geom. Pattern took 2 seconds, then Geom. patterning that 5X5 took 43 seconds.

Rob Reifsnyder
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