How to use FreeCAD's Polar Pattern Tool

[@venzislav]

Thanks - you saved me ;)

[@GlassonDesignStudio]

I'm glad that I could help

[@luekbaja]

Great video

[@GlassonDesignStudio]

Thanks for your kind words

[@OlivierCARRONCABARET]

thks for clear explanations.

[@GlassonDesignStudio]

Thanks for your kind words

[@jiritichy6855]

1/6/2024 I have round part with 20 ribs(radial pattern around center axis) -sort of like a turbine or wheel. To make the radial pattern of the initial rib is not problem, but the rib has a fillet all around and that gives me "NULL SHAPE" if I try to do radial pattern (separate of the ribs)...or just doesn't work (Message Failed the pattern-or something to that effect), when I try to do it together wth the ribs. At one itteration(I tried many) I was able to kake some of the fillets around, some were partial and others just not there at all.....

[@GlassonDesignStudio]

Sorry for the delay getting back to you. I've had very mixed results using fillets and I haven't really identified why. I read some time ago that the fillet code was pretty old and prone to failing which is what you might be encountering. Did you try making the polar pattern and then filleting? Yes I know it's a lot of work and I don't know that it will work.

[@jiritichy6855]

@@GlassonDesignStudio filleting individually one by one is no problem. Also fillet all works except I have to erase those edges, which I do not want and that is somewhat time consuming.....

[@sar2908]

I think you can add a polar pattern to a bevel or chamfer separately.

[@GlassonDesignStudio]

Thanks for your feedback. Perhaps I was trying to be too clever with having multiple fillets but I just couldn't make it work. I'll have to dig deeper

[@now-you-know-it]

Ouch, that pointer is so small it disappear at times making it hard to follow. A small fast moving pointer is so much harder than a fast moving bigger pointer to follow.

[@GlassonDesignStudio]

Thanks for your feedback. I haven't deliberately changed the pointer, but I did notice a smaller pointer later in the video. I don't know why that happened