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Translations:Manual:Modeling for product design/21/en

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  • Since we used the top face of our base block as the foundation for this new sketch, any Part Design operation applied to it will be correctly built on top of the base shape. The two circles are not independent objects; they will be extruded directly from the existing block. This is the key advantage of working in the Part Design Workbench—as long as you ensure each step is built upon the previous one, you are effectively constructing a single, cohesive solid object.
  • We can now duplicate our two dots four times. Select the latest Pad we just created.
  • Press the Linear pattern button.
  • Give it a length of 36 mm (which is the total "span" we want our copies to fit in), in the "horizontal sketch axis" direction, and make it 4 occurrences: