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Pattern and mirror sketch geometry - Inventor Tutorial
From the course: Autodesk Inventor 2021 Essential Training
Pattern and mirror sketch geometry
We're now ready too look at how we can pattern in mirror sketch geometry. On the screen I have Pattern Mirror Start.ipt open that we can use to test out each of these items. If you don't have this open, go ahead and open the exercise file and double click on the sketch in the browser to edit it. Now we have specific setups here the one on the left is for a circular pattern, the one in the middle is a rectangular pattern and the one on the right is a mirror. We're going to start with a circular pattern so we'll go ahead and zoom in on the circle. To create a pattern you can go to the sketch tab under the pattern panel and in this case we're going to use the circular pattern. When you click that the dialog box is presented and there's a couple of things that you should notice. First, the geometry option is selected and it's red and just next to that there's a red icon with the axis. Red in a dialog box in Inventor indicates…
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