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alyona
4th Feb 2008, 10:46 pm
Good day!

I am working on Phillips screwdriver.
In order to make one groove on the tip, I drew a 3d sketch and extruded it through the cylinder at an angle.
Now I need to duplicate this groove 3 times to get a Phillips screwdriver tip.
However the program keeps asking me for an axis of revolution and only allows me to choose certain edges (but not the ones I want to revolve the feature about).
How do I create axis so the program recognizes it as axis of revolution for circular pattern?

Thank you very much in advance

Alyona

JD Mather
5th Feb 2008, 03:14 pm
Whenever you have a cylindrical feature SWX automatically creates a "Temporary Axes" but you must turn on the visibility of the Axes. When you turn it on you should see a short centerline axis somewhere in the cylinder. Select that as the Circular Pattern Axis.

alyona
5th Feb 2008, 03:39 pm
That's great! You have just solved my problem which I was trying to figure out for two days now.

Thank You very much

Alyona