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PSA: I used to draw every single bolt circle by hand on my boards...
For years, I'd plot each point and connect them, which took forever on complex assemblies. Last spring, a guy at the Denver trade show showed me how to use the 'Polar Array' tool in my CAD software. I set the quantity and angle once, and it's done in seconds. What other old manual steps have you guys automated lately?
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karenm492d ago
It's like always taking the long way home.
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ryanprice2d ago
Oh man, that hits home. I was doing the exact same thing with bolt patterns for way too long. My big one was manually drawing all the fillets on a sheet metal bracket, like twenty in a row. I'd sit there and click each corner one by one. Then I found the "chain" option. You just pick the whole outline and it does every single corner at once. I felt so dumb but also so relieved. What's the next basic tool we're all missing?
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