Hi Folks. This is my first post on this forum although I have read many posts over the years and appreciate all the great contributions made by all.
I have a conical solid body with saveral features (cuts, holes, etc. placed on a plane tangent to the outside conical surface. I would like to pattern these features both linearly along this plane and radially around the centreline axis of the cone. I am able to do one or the other but not both simultaneously. I have attempted to do this with a curve driven pattern defined by a helix with increasing radius but have had problems with the features not maintaining a proper angular relationship.
Kind of hard to explain but I would appreciate any insights. If I could do a circular pattern, then a linear move I could accomplish this, but I don't think I can move features...olny bodies. Thanks
Wow, thanks for all the quick replys. I think I have solved my problem.
So, Glen, Kevin...You are right, I need do do a linear pattern straight up and down the cone but I don't want the features to stay there...they need to be rotated around the centreline axis of the cone. Two seperate operations results in the featrures in both places.
This is how I solved the proble...I used my the existinf features of the first instance to create a solid body representing a positive of all my cut features. I did a 5 instance circular pattern around the centreline axis of the cone. I did a seperate Body-move-copy feature for each one of the resulting 5 bodies, tranlating them up the conical surface relative to their existing positions. I then did a combine feature to subract the solid bodies from the original cone. Thanks for your insights...much apprecieated.