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I am trying to pattern an extrude cut on an ellipse and have the orientation of the part follow the ellipse (example would be the point of a triangle always pointing to the origin). Is this possible in wildfire 2.0?
It is totally doable in WF2 and most earlier versions and quite easy as long as you use a point on curve reference for your sketched cut section.
When you sketch your section create a reference datum for your Right or Left facing Datum. Make the datum as Through Point & Normal to the ellipse curve. Then for your sketch references use only the Point and created datum. As long as these are your only references your feature will have no problems being patterned by distance or relative distance of the reference point on curve.
Glad you got it, I was just going to post a more detailed example.
Did you use your original sketch as the reference for your point on curve used to create the Reference Datum? On the ellipse like circles in pro/E it divides the solid edge of the protrusion into two half arcs. Which would give issues during the pattern so the sketch is the best thing to use as a reference.
If you placed cuts on your model as I've shown in the following model and don't have a sketch driving the final geometry you can create a curve from the Geometry using a Geometry selected face loop.
Use this type of curve as your pattern point reference. To create this type of curve Use the geometry selection chain and do a copy curve of the feature face edge.
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