| Patterns |
| List of: | Discussion Topic | |
| Subjects: | Patterns | |
| Contents: | Online Help Guide | |
| Purpose: | Facilitating the creation of patterned entities (i.e., entities that are repeatedly copied and transformed, in either a regular or irregular fashion), to enhance the performance associated with such entities, and to compress data. | ||||||||||||||||
| Description: | In solid modeling, a pattern is a repetitive feature or object arranged in a regular manner. Examples of patterns include the radial pattern of holes in a shower head, the linear grating of ventilation holes on a computer monitor, or the treads on a tire. The ACIS pattern functionality provides tools to facilitate the creation and modification of patterns, and to compress the amount of data needed in the SAT file to represent the resulting model. | ||||||||||||||||