Optimizing a FSCtd file for PATH

[jarhead_h]

Alright, I am still making that spoilboard. I utilized linear paths in Part Design to make over 100 double-pockets for cylindrical t-nuts to be hammered into. However, there are almost a dozen of them, and around a dozen double pockets on the opposite side that will accommodate wood screws to secure the spoilboard to the OSB base the machine is made of(the base 4 is layers of pallet dividers glued together).

I'm wondering if there's any way to streamline the file to lower the number of individual machining operations that I need to set up in the PATH Job.

[chrisb]

First to your model: There is a multipattern which you should use to create all the holes. It would have been enough to model one hole then.

And there is a Path array in Path workbench for repititions of paths.

[Bance]

Here is a another way, I have used holes instead of pockets, and patterns. The spacings may not match exactly but I couldn't be bothered to go looking at each sketch.... etc. That is why we use parametric software to make it easy to change.

My file is only 1/5 as large as yours.

[papyblaise]

and me, my grain of salt, it seems to me that your object is divisible by 4, so you make it 1/4 and a double mirror

[jarhead_h]

Thank you all for the replies.

These were what I needed to figure out the individual steps:

https://wiki.freecadweb.org/PartDesign_MultiTransform

FreeCAD - Linear pattern in two directions
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfbrfItvOCA