I've been doing a lot of assembly work lately and am using component patterns quite heavily. It seems like a pretty logical thing that I should be able to customize my Assembly toolbar and add a button to "Insert (Linear/Circular/Feature) Component Pattern" - but I can't find such a button in the Command section of the Customize dialog; there's no Insert group, and the commands in question don't seem to be under Assembly or anywhere else either. Am I missing something obvious? TIA,
-Mark
Hmmm, I would have also thought they were there. I see that you can assign hotkeys to them, though.
WT
Hmmm. Looks like your right. That must be why I memorized the hotkey sequence to instert patterns. Alt-i,p,f for a fature pattern, etc.
Would a macro be a convienent work around for this?
Yes...but from my brief flip through the API help, I don't see a way to use a macro to simply call up a feature manager panel rather than creating the feature within the macro. If it was worth my time, I would take the "find first hole" macro from fcsuper.com (btw, great site, Matt!) and add code to mate a fastener to that hole and pattern it. However, this is something I'm going to be doing for the next day or two and then not again for six months, so it's hard for me to justify the time required to do that (I'm comfortable in VB but not adept enough for something like that to be a quick job).
-Mark
Right click in the open gray area around your toolbars. Click "Customize..." A dialog box will open. Click the "Commands" tab at the top of the dialog box Click Features on the left. Find the "Linear Pattern" icon Drag the "Linear Pattern" icon from the area in the dialog box up to your toolbar and drop it where you want it in the assembly bar. Done.
The pattern that you are seeing is a feature pattern, to be used in a part with holes, cuts, etc. What Mark is looking for is the component patterns, which pattern components in an assy. Unfortunately, not interchangeable.
WT
Your correct WT. I guess his only solution is a keyboard shortcut.
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