Best way to make a pattern projection on a cylinder surface? I am trying to create a pattern on a cylindrical surface, starting at the simplest possible: a pattern of lines, inclined at 45 degrees. So I constructed a tangent plane to the cylinder surface, created a sketch of the first line, made a pattern of lines with 9 elements, and then got stuck -- there was no way for me to get to the OPTIONS part of the pattern, to set Follow Surface Shape and Follow Surface Direction etc. I did my homework in the sense that I watched a few YTube tutorials, but none of them were into simple things, they just dealt with more esoteric stuff that lost me after the first few minutes... If someone can point me to a good tutorial for projections on cylindrical surfaces (document or YTube), I would really appreciate the help.
My end result is to be able to draw different patterns of lines on pipes or elbows or any other rotational parts, so that when one goes to a "No Hidden" type of diagram, a pipe does not look just like two black parallel lines. Problem
