Fusion - Rectangular Pattern with Driven Dimensions (No Math needed!)

Constraining a rectangular pattern using driven dimensions.
Inspired by a question on Reddit
0:00 Intro
1:12 Start Design

[@HP_rep_mek]

Thanks, always good tips in your videos🙏

[@KristianLaholm]

Thank you :)

[@adambergendorff2702]

You are the king of parameters.

[@Kolgezen]

Helpful video, thank you 👍👍

[@Kolgezen]

Daily dose of fusion :)

[@TheResoluteMind]

Love your tuts. Some of the best I’ve done. I’ve not worked through them all yet but do you have any on how to organize/categorize the parts of a model? Eg if designing a house. What is best practice in terms of: What should be components? Each stud? The set of studs that make the wall? I presume the wall is a sub component of something bigger. Is the window a sub of the wall? The studs a sub of the wall? The drywall sheet a sub of the wall? Wall sockets? The wiring etc? I presume this varies eg if the drywall has unique aspects to it it would be its own sub. If it’s just some sheets no need? Perhaps how you plan to detail it and produce the construction instructions/process out of it has an impact? Eg step by step animation. So basically do you have any videos on best practices for organizing your pieces into bodies/components? And perhaps some wisdom on top d versus bottom u? Thank you for your work.

[@KristianLaholm]

Fusion leaves much of that planing up to you. Brad has some good videos on assemblies.

[@TheResoluteMind]

Thank you sir Laholm. I will check out … “brad”.

[@stefan-bayer]

Thanks for the video. How would I make it to have the same spacing in between the holes as towards the wall? Is there an easy way to constrain this as well?

[@KristianLaholm]

Interesting question. I had to give it a try and yes it works. You have to not dimension the slot, add the closest slot the first one and dimension it using the driven pattern dimension. It's a bit hard to explain in text do some testing and come back if you can't get it to work.

[@stefan-bayer]

@@KristianLaholm thanks for your explanation, tried building it and setting the right constraints but unfortunately did not get it to work. Fusion 360 makes something easy as equal spacing very complicated. I wish that CAD software would be more intuitive.

[@WoLpH]

What's the reason for not wanting a pattern in a sketch? Besides not being visible on the timeline that is.

[@andi-ju9ty]

simple: if you increase the cutouts in the pattern or formula those will not be extruded, but you have to manually make those. try it

[@KristianLaholm]

Like andi mentioned selection problems. Pattern in sketch can slow down the design (if large). Readability of model etc.