Copies the selected objects along a selected path rather than following a circular or rectangular path.
Use Pattern on Path to copy selected objects along a selected path.
You can pattern faces, bodies, and components.
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Patterns
Pattern on Path
- Objects
- Enables the selection of objects to pattern.
- Path
- Enables the selection of the path to pattern around.
- Suppress
- Displays check boxes in the graphics window at each occurrence. Uncheck a box at an occurrence to suppress that occurrence from the pattern.
- Quantity
- Specifies the total number of occurrences.
- Distance
- Specifies the overall distance between occurrences.
- Start Point
- Specifies where along the path the pattern calculation starts. The Start Point is a decimal percentage.
- Distance Type
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- Extent The Distance field specifies the overall length of the pattern and the occurrences are spaced evenly along the distance.
- Spacing The Distance field specifies the distance between occurrences.
- Direction
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- One Direction Creates a single direction pattern.
- Symmetric Creates a symmetrical pattern.
- Orientation
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- Identical Keeps the instances in the same position as the original object.
- Path Direction Rotates each instance relative to the pattern path.
- Optimized
- Used for patterns with high quantities.