Simulation

Five things you can do with SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer that You Couldn’t do Before!

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SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer (SSE) Brings new advanced simulation capabilities to SOLIDWORKS users. With SSE, you can validate complex product designs fast and cost-effectively, helping to speed up innovation, enhance quality, and reduce time to market. Further, SSE integrates with SOLIDWORKS through the cloud-based Dassault Systèmes 3DEXPERIENCE® platform, meaning you can run simulations on both your local machine or in the cloud. Before talking more about the new and exciting SSE, let me remind you why you should seriously consider simulation if you’re not already. A simulation is already an important tool for any designer or engineer. SSE extends those capabilities by providing a tightly integrated, cloud-based solution to conduct advanced structural static, frequency, buckling, modal dynamic response, and structural-thermal analysis of parts and assemblies. Here are five things you can do with SSE that you couldn’t do before: 1. A new integrated workflow for high-end FEA: With the new 3DEXPERIENCE Simulation Connector in the SOLIDWORKS task pane, you can now access high-end FEA capabilities directly from SOLIDWORKS; it delivers a unique, easy and integrated workflow to solve more advanced problems while allowing you to reuse your SOLIDWORKS geometry, loads, restraints, and materials. 2. You can trust it: SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer is a new structural analysis solution on the cloud-based 3DEXPERIENCE platform from Dassault Systèmes powered by SIMULIA Abaqus, the market leader in FEA technology. 3. You can solve more complex non-linear analysis faster: You can perform structural static, frequency, buckling, modal dynamic response, and structural thermal analysis. It effortlessly handles coupling of multiple nonlinearity effects; including contact interactions with friction, sequential load cases, large deformation and strain.   This three-point bend problem (shown above) is highly non-linear; there is a combination of complex contact interactions and large permanent deformations at the same time. In SOLIDWORKS Simulation, the simulation stops at 77 percent after 30 minutes while in SSE it solves at 100 percent in only 7 minutes! 4. You can work on something else while it runs: Cloud computing (optional add-in) lets you run your simulation on the cloud and on more CPUs. While it runs remotely, your local machine is free to do whatever else you need to do… 5. You can mesh (and therefore simulate) anything with confidence: Advanced meshing tools are available, manual and automatic, solid, surface and beam meshers, a wide library of elements are available such as brick and quad elements for better convergence and accuracy, particularly good for solving non-linear analysis such as gaskets or other seals made of rubber being highly compressed. Below is an example of a hydro-forming T-tube that is being deformed under high compression. The continuum shells types of elements let us predict the deformed thickness of the tube and then improve the design while simulating the manufacturing process.           To summarize, with SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer, you can now access advanced simulation capabilities from SOLIDWORKS and solve more complex physics with confidence, accuracy, and speed. Visit the SIMULIA Structural Simulation Engineer website to learn more.  

SOLIDWORKS Visualize

What’s New in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019

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Red alert! Red alert! SOLIDWORKS Visualize is now faster than ever!! One could say even the fastest visualization tool on the planet. That’s right – I said it. No one is faster than SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019. Period. Maybe you’ve attended a Reseller Rollout event, seen some blogs online or know a few things about what we released as new features in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019? Or maybe you haven’t heard any news at all? Well, you’ve come to the right place. There are LOADS of new features and improvements in Visualize 2019 and this blog post will give you an overview of what to expect in our latest release. Visualize 2019 is all about getting your projects done faster than ever, allowing you to likewise get your products to market faster. This means making more money faster. See the trend here?? Turn your imagination into professional photo-quality imagery and animations in no time with all the latest improvements to the Visualize 2019 product suite. And just to be crystal clear, here is the theme for Visualize 2019: DRAMATICALLY ACCELERATE YOUR DESIGN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS To make it easy this year, we’ve created this overview video of all the top new features in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019. So watch the video and read up on the detailed breakdown below. Video credit: Andreas Spieler, Michel Cloutier, Solid Solutions Here’s a breakdown of some of the biggest new features in SOLIDWORKS Visualize 2019, helping you get products to market faster: Artificial Intelligence Denoiser Visualize uses artificial intelligence to decipher and eliminate noise from your renders, giving you an instant 10x render speed boost! Integrated Physics Simulator (Professional only) Enable Physics with a few simple clicks and watch your items collide and fall, just like they would in real life. After Physics is set up, use the Shake tool to randomize or jitter the selected elements. This helps to add a natural touch to stacked plates or rearrange pens in a cup, without having to manually move each part individually, saving loads of scene setup time. There’s also saved Simulation States for you to choose which “shake” effect you like best to move to final render. Vehicle Driving Simulator (Professional only) For vehicle designers and engineers, we’ve also added a new Vehicle Driving Simulator to create driving footage or dynamic still shots of vehicles that don’t even exist yet. You can even plug in an Xbox controller and drive your car concept throughout your scene while recording the result for photo-quality driving footage! Video Decals (Professional only)  Import videos or image sequences directly into Visualize Pro, creating vivid animations of products with LED screens, like laptops, consumer electronics, car navigation screens, or airline headsets. Improved Decal Support Now you have much more control over decal mapping and exact positioning, providing a stress-free Decal experience. We’ve also added new Decal Mapping modes directly within Visualize, so you no longer have to use the Multi-Layer workaround to have a Decal wrap around a cylinder – just choose ‘Cylindrical’ from the ‘Decal Mapping Mode’ drop-down. Also, we now have support for all types of Decals coming from SOLIDWORKS CAD! Enhanced Material support (PBR & NVIDIA MDL)  Don’t want to painstakingly create your own custom materials from scratch, but want to use your company’s existing database of materials/textures or those you’ve found via online websites or communities?  We’ve added new advanced Appearance Types to give you greater flexibility and creativity to import industry-standard materials. You can even scan real-world materials and import them via NVIDIA MDL or PBR directly into Visualize. Improved Model Tree Behavior Ability to Copy/Paste parts has been on the list for years! Now it’s possible in Visualize 2019. Also added flexibility and functionality to aid you in reorganizing your Model Tree, which cuts down on unnecessary wasted time. Custom Keyboard Shortcuts Save time by creating your own custom hotkeys, specific to your own preferences – including single-key hotkeys! You can also export your shortcut list to load onto another machine. Automatic Data Recovery  If your Visualize session terminates unexpectedly, you can recover automatically saved data the next time you launch Visualize. You can specify the frequency and folder for saving auto-recovery data. Don’t lose your work because of a crash ever again! BONUS! Export Visualize to NVIDIA Holodeck (Professional only) Open up the floodgates and use Visualize Pro as the authoring tool, to export your projects into NVIDIA Holodeck for immersive design reviews, all in photo-quality Virtual Reality! This is seriously the future of how we design and engineer our world. Check out these video links below to see NVIDIA’s Holodeck in action: Car Design example AEC / Interior Design example  

SOLIDWORKS PDM

Organize Your ‘Organization’ With SOLIDWORKS PDM

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SOLIDWORKS PDM  Manage Data like a Pro Myriad of companies now a day’s suffer not from a lack of data in the product set necessary to make it but rather from the data being created and managed in such a way that other concerned departments either have no clue about it or can’t find it with ease. Finding the required data is like” searching for a needle in a sand dune”. In today’s world, more emphasis is given to upgrading and enhancing the technology of an enterprise but when it comes to strengthening the management most of us turn a deaf ear forgetting how vital any resource management is. Management is not any rocket science but in a nutshell, it is just arranging and telling things. Moreover, we know that “what we can measure we can manage” & in any enterprise Data is very important. So is its management but when it comes to the task of managing the data most of us show a ” clean pair of heels” whose repercussions are silos of data stored at random locations. How often do we hear, “The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing? This phrase can very well fit with most of the companies because companies place more emphasis on how each department is organized and not enough emphasis on organizing their business processes where information flows from its data producers to its data consumers. This “organization” leads each department to create their own methods for producing and using much the same information, resulting in duplicate efforts and waste. Breakdown the scattered lumps of data – SOLIDWORKS PDM helps each department of your organization to start work on the “same page of the story” and straightaway” hit the bull’s eye”. SOLIDWORKS PDM can help you in the following ways – To ensure data conform to standard classifications To ensure the validity of the data To secure and maintain primary data To allow easy access to primary data Data Management is the ability of an organization to precisely define, easily integrate, and effectively retrieve data for both internal applications and external communication. To be very specific data management for product development is of utmost importance. Improve your Design with Branching and Merging – Now it is very easy to create a new version of the source file from the modified branch file version. You can manage the history of source files and branch files without hassles. Branching the existing files is just like to copy trees with the help of Product Data Management (PDM) 2018. SOLIDWORKS PDM (Product data management) helps you get your design data under control and effectively, it improves the way your teams manage and collaborate on product development. In a nutshell, it is basically a fully-fledged data management solution. While most of the companies hunt for the data at the eleventh hour, it is usually recommended to implement at the very initial point rather than doing it by fits and starts. Companies have several projects stored in their Windows file system prior to a Product Data Management(PDM) implementation. While it is ideal to leave older projects within the old filing structure, it is sometimes important to club them into the new PDM system for future use. With the help of SOLIDWORKS PDM, you can really” organize” your “organization.

SOLIDWORKS Explorer

USE OF SOLIDWORKS EXPLORER

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What is SOLIDWORKS Explorer SOLIDWORKS Explorer is a very useful tool that helps you in performing work like rename, replace and copy SOLIDWORKS documents. You can also see references, documents in various ways and you can locate all the places where documents are used. You can use the files for the renaming of those documents which references are available. There are some properties in the SOLIDWORKS explorer that are essential for the designer. Below is a quick list to go through. INFO:- It gives full details of the assemblies, part and drawing i.e. where the file is located when it was last changed, created what type of document etc. You can easily find all type of requirement in this tool. PROPERTIES:- In properties command, if you there in any property link then it will be shown in the properties bar. If you want to change any new properties then you can change it by right click on the “add new”. REFERENCES:- In reference, you can list the items that are referred to selected parts, assembly and drawings documents. There it will also show if some files are missing or file is not being found. You can also pack and go, rename, replace and move the parts by clicking right click on the required part. WHERE USED:- You can also specify whether any parts, assembly, and drawing are used in other files or not. CONFIGURATIONS IN SOLIDWORKS EXPLORER:- In the configuration command, you can find the configuration which you have made in the parts, drawings, assembly. It also includes files that are in the SOLIDWORKS PDM standard vault and files that are outside the vaults. HYPERLINKS: In hyperlinks, you can list and edit hyperlinks that are related to the parts, drawings, and assembly documents. VIEWS: In view command you can view parts, assembly, drawings in a different direction like the front, right, back, top, and bottom. You can save, zoom, rotate and print the documents. Not only this but you can also view cross-section, can put the company stamps, can measure, and can give mark-ups. SOLIDWORKS SEARCH:- SOLIDWORKS search helps in finding all the file’s names and text strings in all indexed documents. FIXING RENAMING ERROR:- Using this command you can fix all sorts of errors found in the documents. PACK AND GO OVERVIEW:- Using pack and go overview you can accumulate all files for a design and keep it in a folder or in a zip.  PACK AND GO DIALOGUE BOX:- In this command, it gives details of all related files or documents which are saved in the folders or in a zip. EDrawing:– You can display all the images of parts, assembly, or drawings. This guide includes all the necessary terms which a mechanical designer must know to create innovative designs more potentially and effectively.

SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS IS ALIVE AND GROWING!!

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SOLIDWORKS IS ALIVE Anything that responds to your stimuli or vice-versa is living. And this is the reason that SOLIDWORKS is still evolving as a CAD/CAM/CAE solution in various industrial fields. SOLIDWORKS is approximately is of my age, but we meet in my College days. In those days SOLIDWORKS helped me in developing my concepts in 3d … A long journey with tremendous growth Since 1995, every year SOLIDWORKS comes up with a major release (Currently SW 2018) that consists of enhancement and what’s new according to the technological reforms and current requirements in the industries, etc. After the day SOLIDWORKS was taken care by DS (Dassault Systemes), SOLIDWORKS acquired much new software for its and own betterment. The parent company DS acquired Visualize, Inspection, Simulation, etc. Every year SOLIDWORKS releases 5 service packs that include packs that update the compatibility with other software. From all over the world SolidWorks collects the inputs as a Special purpose or enhancement request. Then accordingly, it prioritizes the enhancements that need to be added. Click on the link below to see various major releases of SW: And this is a cumulative effort of the end-users and the SOLIDWORKS development team for evolving itself to be successful in the CAD/CAM/CAE industry. And moreover, I consider SOLIDWORKS as a family, where you can find blogs, tips & tricks, and videos all over the internet. So if you think that there is something that needs to be added to SOLIDWORKS … I can be the mediator or you can tell SOLIDWORKS directly. Click here to get to purchase SOLIDWORKS From The No. 1 Authorised Reseller Tech Savvy Engineers.

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Draw Compare With SOLIDWORKS

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Draw With SOLIDWORKS Allows you to design your product with a higher degree of flexibility in integration to big time-saving. As you know entering earlier into the market is the key to success but do you know how can you deliver your product fast? Here, the TechSavvy Engineers the leading SOLIDWORKS  VAR (Value-added reseller) is guiding you one of the handy features of SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD productivity tools i.e. Draw Compare. Is it worth having ‘Draw Compare’ in your designing software? There are several reasons that demand this proficient feature in your designing software. Multiply your productivity – Using this feature you can design your product very fast with the conceptual design, by adding new dimensions. Compare without hassles – It is easy to compare an old product design with a new design in a few clicks Big time saver – The feature saves your time by drawing an original design, you can create an iterative design by selecting and opening the previous design folder and putting new dimensions on it. Reduce manufacturing cost – You can compare all the designs of the same product and proceed to work on the optimized one rather than working on others. With an optimized design, you can minimize the manufacturing cost of the product Minimize numbers of the prototype – By comparing multiple product designs you can obtain the best design on software. So, you can reduce the number of prototypes for tooling. Which specifications can you compare with this feature? SOLIDWORKS Utilities can be categorized in six different ways based on their functionality, along with customized HTML reporting. One of them is Draw Compare which allows geometry to be compared across parts, assemblies, or drawings. Specific comparison functionality includes the ability to: Find differences or verify that two parts or drawings are the same Compare features—Highlights what model features are different between two designs, colour – code them for easy identification. A list of differences can be generated. Compare documents—Compare two SolidWorks documents from your computer, network, or SolidWorks Enterprise EPDM vault Compare configurations—Compare two configurations of the same file Compare geometry– Enables you to quickly determine what geometry is different between two designs using Face Comparison, Geometry Comparison, or View Synchronization. Generate summary reports of comparisons with SolidWorks Report Manager Compare BOMs—You can compare the bill of material (BOM) tables among two Solidworks assembly or drawing documents. Above is the whole guide about the Draw Compare feature and its need for enhancing your productivity.

SOLIDWORKS 3D

Beginning With SOLIDWORKS

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SOLIDWORKS 3D CAD Software Being a mechanical engineering student during my college time, I had decided to go in the design field as a design engineer. So I researched what are the types of design we used in industries and which designing software are used in industries for the designing them. When I researched, there was a whole list of software which was used in the design field and I got confused from where I have to begin. User-friendly Appearance While I was pursuing bachelors, I only used to design 2D sketch on a plane sheet. So, due to lack of professional skills I needed a user-friendly software to learn more by self-practice. I choose top 5 five software to study more deeply. I started looking for the online tutorials for this software to understand their future scopes. I found that SOLIDWORKS was the best one for the beginners to learn fast. The user-friendly appearance of SOLIDWORKS invites you to draw intuitive 3D designs in easy steps. For executing basic commands in other software, the steps were difficult. I got finish a design project in SOLIDWORKS without external help, that is why I switched to learn SOLIDWORKS. 2D to robust 3D Designs Then after I started professional tutorial classes of SOLIDWORKS to know how it converts the 2D design in 3D view fast and the easy way. When I started using SOLIDWORKS, it was so easy to make intuitive 3D designs only in few steps. SOLIDWORKS is best to design platform to draw 3D designs by showing your design creativity. SOLIDWORKS 3D  is so easy to use that every student who has interest in design field will practice and learn so fast. As SOLIDWORKS has huge applications in industries serving in packaging to medical domain, from Automobile to Aerospace etc. It is purely a product to design machines. But, of course, there are other applications, like LED, Solar, consumer products, etc. The latest versions are more user-friendly than the former one, in terms of modelling, editing designs, creating mechanisms and much more. There are 60% plus companies around the globe that are using SOLIDWORKS for making their design is fast and easy for their productivity. These all are the valid reasons to drag beginner’s attention towards SOLIDWORKS 3D

SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE

Entering The World Of Rendering

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SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE If for some time I make you blindfolded and then narrate certain specifications of any product or any item, it would be a hard nut to crack without visualization. SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE software offers you to create high-quality realistic images of your model in minutes. The software is having a range of variations in background environments, colors, viewing angles, etc. A customized appearance and textures can be given to the model by adding custom viewing angles and backgrounds in order to obtain a high-resolution rendering in easy mode. A powerful add-on for SolidWorks VISUALIZE that allows you to create photorealistic renderings and animations is Photo View 360. Never ignore RRRs in your 3D & 2D model- Robust Model – When it’s come about the model, always look for a powerful model by its parameters, animations, appearance, and texture. Responsive Model – The model should be quick and time responsive. Photo View 360 allows you to create high-quality images in a few minutes. Rendering Model – The add-on allows you to create life-like realistic images. Below are the five fast rendering key shortcuts that make you fall in love with SOLIDWORKS VISUALIZE  – Even Dolly In/Out motion (Shift + Middle Mouse Button + Mouse Forward / Backwards) – Get a smooth camera in or out the motion by holding shift key simultaneously pressing the middle mouse button and moving the mouse itself forward and backward instead of scrolling. Quick Focal Length Adjustment (Alt + Middle Mouse Button Scroll) You can change the focal length of your camera in seconds simply by holding down the Alt key while scrolling middle button of the mouse. By doing this a change in perspective of the image can be seen according to the lens you have got in your digital camera Spin Environment (Ctrl + Alt + Left Mouse Button Drag) Rotate the environment to meet your needs by holding down the Control and Alt Keys together and drag your Left Mouse Button horizontally in the graphics area to rotate the environment. Camera Look – At (Shift (or Ctrl) + Alt + Right Click) Change the look at point to the selected object by holding Control and Alt together and Right Click on the object which you like to lock on to. Now your camera will look at and rotate about the location you have right clicked on. Copy and Paste Appearances (Shift + Left / Right Click) By holding Shift and Left Clicking on the object that has the desired appearance, you can then Right Click on the object that you wish to have the appearance (still holding the Shift key). If you have a hard time remembering which one is “Copy” and which one is “Paste,” just remember that your Left Click is always the selection tool. Select what you’re after with the Left Click, and then transfer it with the Right Click. There are several more shortcut keys that make ease in creating rendering image Increase environment brightness by 0.25 – (Ctrl+]) Decrease environment brightness by 0.25 – (Ctrl+]) Increase environment gamma by 0.25 – (Ctrl+ ‘) Decrease environment gamma by 0.25 – (Ctrl+ 😉 Flattens floor – (Ctrl + Shift + G) Hides or shows environment – (Ctrl + Shift + E) Hides or shows backplate visibility – (Ctrl + Shift + B) Loads environment image – (Ctrl + E) Loads backplate image – (Ctrl + B) Send rendering to another machine Offloaded rendering lets you send rendering to another machine having Photo View 360 net Render Client. You can use this feature to free up your computer while rendering calculates on other machines. You can do it by the help of two machines one as a Coordinator and the other as a Client. Coordinator The machine has the Solidworks software with PhotoView 360. The coordinator must have a license of SOLIDWORKS Professional or higher and an active subscription service license. Client The machine has the Photo View 360 Net Client. The client does not need a SOLIDWORKS license. Two types of renderings can be performed in Solidworks as per need. Single offloaded rendering Send a single static image to render on the client. For applying this type of rendering goes to the render tools first, a window will be open as shown as below, now apply offload rendering. Scheduled offloaded rendering  Send a single static image to the SOLIDWORKS Task Scheduler to start the task at a later time. For using this type of rendering first click Schedule Render in the Render tools command manager, a dialogue pops up will be open as shown below, apply your data info for the render.

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Industrial Design to Hand Mould in SOLIDWORKS

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I have completed my Post Diploma in plastic mold design. There I studied about plastic like mold, how many types of mold are present, how we manufacture plastics and many more. When I got a job as a technical executive in SOLIDWORKS you won’t believe that SOLIDWORKS proved that it is one of the easiest, fastest and convenient software for designing.We can easily extract core and cavity, we can analysis plastics easily and many more. Now I will show you how it is useful in SOLIDWORKS. Before that, I would like to share briefly  about, mold, hand mold, and how it will be helpful for the designer to execute in  SOLIDWORKS MOULD:- Mould means a combination of two mold halves i.e. Core and Cavity…Core means it is the internal part of the mold and Cavity means it is the external part of the mold. Let’s Know about Hand Mould – In injection moulding, hand molds are the simple mold which is used in less quantity. There is no supply of heat, cooling, or ejection. Heating plates are essential in every cycle time of hand mold to heat the molds and after every cycle time, we have to remove the mold to get the product. As a result, it enhances the cycle time, its limit is for short run and mold cost is low. Almost hand mold has a single cavity but we can make multi-cavity by making the mold small in construction. To make part simple it is usually of 2 plate mold or 3 plate mold. For short form of the mold it can be made from aluminium brass and for the requirement of more parts, then they are made from conventional steels. SOLIDWORKS gives a great advantage with design and validation of parts and tools in one system. Designers can demonstrate that parts can be molded successfully, along with the checking for draft, thickness, and undercuts to ensure the correct geometry for molding. Mould Design Capabilities in SOLIDWORKS Standard:- Complete plastic part and advanced surfacing design tools Geometry Import, Repair, and Healing tools Draft Analysis, Undercut Analysis, and Thickness Analysis tools Parting line tools Parting surface tools Automated “fill surface” capability for easy shutoff surface creation Core and cavity splitting tools SOLIDWORKS 3D mold bases available online and directly from major mold suppliers SOLIDWORKS configurations to create customizable configurations of molds and mold components Compare Part tools to visually see in 3D what geometry was added or removed when design changes occur Production quality mold drawing creation tools Seamless integrations with several industries leading CAM products allowing NC tool paths to automatically update with part design and tooling changes.

Geometry Pattern

Use of ‘Vary Sketch’ and ‘Geometry Pattern’ in linear patterning of features

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Geometry Pattern and Vary Sketch Patterning of features is the best way to reuse geometries of features. Pattern instances are the accurate replica of the seed geometry except for variable patterns command. the complete step-by-step procedure is given below to utilize these features. Vary your design with Vary Sketch When we require some replicas of any feature and size of those designs, which vary with some reference/parameters but the shape remains same, then we have a tremendous option called ‘Vary Sketch’. This gives us patterns like this, For applying above effects in your design first you should know that you can select a linear edge, line, axis, dimension, planar faces and surfaces, conical faces and surfaces, circular edges, and reference planes etc for Direction options. Step-1 To use vary sketch option, always select one of the seed reference dimension as Direction along which seed feature is required to pattern, Step-2 Then select seed feature in Feature and Faces option, Geometry Pattern Step-3 Then select Vary Sketch in Options, Step-4 Then press OK Now you can see how the instances vary with the related reference. Create linear patterns of the same size when a seed is referenced by irregular surfaces by using ‘Geometry Pattern’ When you want to create the linear pattern, in which you make seed which is already referenced by a surface like this, you can go for geometry pattern. In that case, pattern instances of seed will follow the reference relationship like this, In this case, if you require all pattern instances in the same size then you can select geometry Pattern command by which all instances follow actual geometry of seed, By selecting Geometry pattern as above you can obtain desired surface geometry.