Automated groove function on cylinder

[Tilarta]

I am wanting to apply a series of evenly spaced vertical grooves to this cylinder:

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But I want the process to be automated, it would be far too intensive to manually add each groove, as there will be many of them.

Does anyone know if a tool exists to modify this cylinder this way?

[papyblaise]

Hi
Place Base in a Body , draw the profil for the Grove (1 or more) , and grove

[ickby]

I recommend using Part Design exclusively and adding the repetitive grooves via pattern feature

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[TheMarkster]

Parametric proposal:

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Modify the dd object properties to experiment with different settings.

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[TedM]

Folks, the OP specified "vertical groves". Unless I'm confused, those are horizontal grooves.

Here's doing vertical grooves by using https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Draft_Array on an additional cylinder and then cutting the array out of the original cylinder.

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To change the number of grooves, simply change the value of "Number Poles" in the array and recompute (F5).

[chrisb]

For vertical grooves, create one of them (pocket) and create a PartDesign PolarPattern.

[TheMarkster]

Sorry about that. Now they're vertical.

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