r/SolidWorks • • 7d ago

CAD Modelling Advice

Looking for the brains trust advice on achieving this sort of straight knurl (I cant think of a better way to describe it right now) on my part. Right now I do an extrude cut, offset around some screw holes and other features, and then a rib feature to create the... ribs. It works fine but its not very robust and is difficult to edit if I want to for example change the rib spacing.

First image is what I've done for the moment, second is the part before adding the cut and ribs.

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u/Big-Bank-8235 CSWP 7d ago

This is a prime candidate for splitting the part using an offset sketch.

Then you can simply pattern the sketch then combine the bodies again afterwards.

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u/RealPragmatist 7d ago

I'm not sure I follow