Create a Cut Extrude pattern automatically

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Creating a pattern from Cut-Extrude holes when adding a new fastener is almost identical to adding a single fastener.

  1. Open an assembly
  2. Click Add Fastener in the Lightning toolbar
  3. Select a type, size and material
  4. Select a washer type or select None
  5. Drag the fastener file in your assembly from the Create Pattern button.

Lightning create component patterns

Pattern the added fastener automatically

After you drag the file into your assembly (and we optionally add a washer), we add a fastener (+washer) to every identical hole in the same feature with the same top face. We cannot create a real component pattern like we do with Hole Wizard holes, so we add each bolt separately.

For this to work, you need to drag the file onto a circular Cut-Extrude hole and the bolt needs to snap in place with Mate References.