New Update: My 1 Hour Free beginner Course >> Watch here bit.ly/SolidWorksForBeginners

Wow, 11 years later still valueable lessons! I was going the route of drawing a Hex and then offset it... THis is much better. Thank you!

Great tutorial since after 4 years. In minutes I made flash killer for my scope. THX bro. :)

Hi, Great tutorial - One issue though: as your vertical spacing, you enter 3.897, which is the 3-decimal limited number. That's fine for a small pattern, but for patterns extending for hundreds of vertical lines, such small approximation will add up, resulting in an error of several mm. Is there a way to solve the issue? We tried using a formula, but SW seems to still round the exact number to a 3 decimals.

Fantastic tutorial. I have created the same thing as you did here but with squares. Would you be able to show me how you could extrude this along a path. I have designed an AC vent opeing that I want to point downward instead of at the 90 degrees here. Thanks.

sorry for the late reply. i wouldnt recommend SW for this model. there must be better packages. but still you can easily make a ball as in the atom and a cylinder with two hemispheres cavities at both ends. in the assembly mode you can use these two parts as many as you want. you just have to mate the cavities to the outer surface of the balls. try this.

Hi SolidworksTutorials, I am wondering would you be able to share the STL. file for this structure? I do not have assess to solidworks but would like to 3D print this structure in my libraries 3D printed. I hope to use a 3D model to demonstrate to a bee-keeping group the complexity and rigidity of the bee honeycomb. Hopefully this isn't an issue. Thanks James

Is it possible to make the extruded honeycomb structure in the shape of a circle rather than a rectangle?

I did it, it's easy. Thanks

great video ! i want to do analysis on a sandwich cylinder structure with skin on the inner side and on the outer side, do you have an idea how to model the honeycomb in a cylinder shape ? thanks

Any idea how to make a 3D pattern only inside of a closed volume? Like diamond structure e.g.

you have many choices: 1- make the shape i did and bend it 360 degrees with "flex" command 2- make a cylinder--> draw a hexagonal iside-->project the shape on the surface of the cylinder---> cut--> pattern 3- make a cylinder -->draw a hexagonal on a place inside-->use wrap feature--> pattern

Great video thank you!

Part of me is happy that I already knew how to do it this way. Part of me is not, I came searching for a better way. Hopefully sometime soon SW will have a "mesh" tool that will do this to curved/shaped surfaces. Doing this to a flat surface then bending it, is enough to make you want to pull your eyes out in frustration. Thanks for taking the time to do this either way!

@with-Aryan

3 жыл бұрын

There is a "better" way, and that is using linear patter at an angle so you wouldn't need to draw TWO hexagons, one would suffice but the calculations of that angle and sh** like that makes that "better way" a less efficient way. so..

Thanks this was very helpful

Nice tutoring... Good job

thanks

no matter english , thanx for tutorial , was useful

thanks for your video,now please can you show me how to curve this honeycomb for inside the domes

I know some followers found this easy, but I struggled, basically at the point of duplicating the original sketch, to define the duplicated sketch, as this is skimmed over in the tutorial, but I found that it is very significant when it comes to measuring, as it distorted the duplicated sketch. Some clarification on exactly what needs defining in the duplicated sketch would be much appreciated. I got there finally but after about 4 hours .... I need a lie down now :-) before trying again zzzzz

Thank you very much

pleas how to make feature pattern on dome body or surface in solidworks

can you draw this on curved surfaces. ? ex, cylinder, dome, sphere, hemisphere

you are welcome

This was awesome!

@with-Aryan

4 жыл бұрын

glad to hear that

thanks, what about covering it in skin

very good explained!!

@with-Aryan

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

I really like this video, can you make the honeycomb so the hexagons are solid and the in between lines are blank? Basically a negative of a real honeycomb.

@mansoorishaker

7 жыл бұрын

Phillip Montour im glad you liked the video. yes Philip you can. just do it exactly like I did it to the end. once you have your honeycomb, creat a cube on top it with the exact width and height BUT uncheck the "merge results" in your extrusion feature. then using Combination feature substract the honeycomb from the cube. it will give you the negative form or in other word what you're looking for. SOLIDWORKS tutorials

Thanks for the video. I think it would have been easier for you to copy the shape, make it equal and set lines to be parallel first, then add dimensions, driven by equations and use construction lines to position multiple shapes and to dimension off of...again preferably equation driven. thanks for the vid!

Yo dude thanks a lot!

MUITO BOM, AGORA SEI COMO FAZER UMA TELA.

hi, i want to know how to extrude the honeycomb along a sphere, that the won't extrude straight out of the sketch but extrude along the sphere, so the extruded distance is the same everywhere from the sphere. Thank you.

@with-Aryan

10 жыл бұрын

If I understood the question correctly you want a honeycomb which is created on a surface of a sphere? Like you have a honeycomb shaped sphere and you cut a piece from it. In that case you need to make the initial steps exactly the way you see in this vid. Make the sketch and rebuild it. Next step would be draw a half a circle IN ANOTHER PLANE which is perpendicular to the one you had your honeycomb on. Then go to the surface tab, revolve the sketch to create a surface sphere. Then use the wrap feature in the Features tab to project your CLOSED sketch (no open area) to the inner walls of that sphere. Then hide the sphere. That’s one way to do it. The other is to have the sphere and extrude the sketch using OFFSET FROM A SURFACE and choose the surface of the sphere.

Great! Ty

i tried but i stuck in that place when need second hexagon make measurements and where u got these calculations???

@with-Aryan

6 жыл бұрын

I came up with them myself. Send an email to info@solidworkstutorials.net and I will reply the screenshot to you

Thanks a lot :)

Thanks!

hi what can be the error if I cannot extrude 300 X 300mm aluminium honycomb?

@with-Aryan

8 жыл бұрын

your sketch might be open...

Watch my 2020 SolidWorks Beginner Free Webinar Course► courses.solidworkstutorials.net/Webinar-Registration?YT&

Hello. love the honey comb! I am new to solidworks and would really like to make interesting jewellery designs to print out on 3d printer. Could you show me how to produce some ways of using tools to produce things like a princess cut diamond, a birdcage a bird and/or a leaf? thank you for any help you can give me :)

@with-Aryan

9 жыл бұрын

Danielle Saunders Birdcage and leaf will be perfectly done by 3D sketches. as for the princess cut diamont. you just have to draw the middle cross section. it would probably be a hexagon? then extrude it with having the angle option activated (On the left side menu, it is a green button with a small photo of a pyramid thingy on it), then just chamfer the top edges.

soooo verryy useful video..loved it

@with-Aryan

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it

This doesn't always work and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. Often SW does not allow me to click on distances between polygons.. I know it's my fault but I'm not sure what it is, could you advise?

@with-Aryan

10 жыл бұрын

Make sure if your sketeches are not already fully defined. then let me know if this was the problem or not

When I draw the rectangle over the pattern and go to extrude, it always extrudes the actual hexagons, not the pattern between them, please does anyone know how to fix this?

@Nigel5uk

9 жыл бұрын

Think I've figured this out, if this happens to anyone else, try the "Selected Contours" tool.

@CuthbertNibbles

6 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for coming back to answer your own questions. I've been looking for this for literally hours.

I would like to see a space shuttle composite wing.

Plz tell me the Software name..

Hi can you pls share a video of how to create a honeycomb cylinder?

@with-Aryan

9 жыл бұрын

you can either use the sketch above rebuild it. then draw your desired cylinder, and use "Wrap" feature to make it around the surface of the cylinder and then extrude cut the cylinder itself. or simply make the part above and then use the "flex" feature. sorry for the later reply.

Would you mind showing how to do something similar except instead of going extruding across the same area you go from a larger area to a smaller area. For example... You have a 10x10 area with a 5x5 linear pattern of circles. You then extrude the space in between those circles (like you did here) down to a 5x5 area. So essentially a truncated pyramid of circular tubes. I'd appreciate the help. It's been giving me trouble.

@stephenjackson2663

8 жыл бұрын

And just to clarify, I want to control the size in the smaller area instead of just using an angle that Draft does...don't want to use Draft.

@with-Aryan

8 жыл бұрын

Stephen, it seems i still have difficulties imagining what you are asking. can you explain more in details please

@stephenjackson2663

8 жыл бұрын

I'll try my best. So just for example sake, let's say I draw a large square 3D box. On the "front" side of the box, I draw one circle that's 2in in diameter. Then on the "back" (or opposite side) of the box, I draw another circle that's 1in in diameter. I then do a boundary cut between the 2in circle and the 1in circle. This makes a "tube" essentially in the middle of the box. Right? I want to do that same operation over 100 times on the box, making 100 tubes in the box each going from an "inlet" of 2in to an "outlet" of 1in. The only way I know of doing this so far is by doing a linear sketch pattern on both the front and back faces of the cube to make the circles, then use convert entity on each individual circle, and then doing the boundary cut on each individual pair of circles. Obviously, that would take a long time to do so I'm hoping there is a faster way around this. Does that explain it better? Is there a faster way?

@with-Aryan

7 жыл бұрын

Hey Stephan, sorry for the delay my friend. I got it. you want to have a pattern in a lerger area and another similar but smaller pattern in another plane with a distance from your original plane. Ok, this is a good example to work with Loft. Nevertheless, not so easy because Loft doesnt let you choose the areas between your circles. What you do is: draw your circle pattern in the 10x10 area and rebuild. choose your distance and make a plane and draw your 5x5 circle and rebuild, Loft your individual circles to one another from the 10 to 5. once you are finished with all of them, Loft your outer border of your 10x10 to your 5x5 (ignoring the conical circles you arlready have) BUT make sure to UNCHECK the MERGE RESULT in your LOFT options so they wouldnt become one solid body. Then using COMBINE, subtrace the cones from your solid body. If you message me your email, I would send you a photo of what I have made for you

hi...nice video but can draw a mesh not poligon but some other???

@mansoorishaker

6 жыл бұрын

Mārtiņš Pēcis what do you mean?

@huntmasters777

6 жыл бұрын

AryAriba i am drawing mesh like audi RS style...it is like honeycomb but a bit wider....and i stuck when need put smart dimentions between them both hexagons ( honeycombs)

@mansoorishaker

6 жыл бұрын

Mārtiņš Pēcis ok I see. The key is to find the main pattern that is needed to be multiple. If the hexagons are wider, it means your distance in the X direction must be more than your Y direction when using the sketch linear pattern. This is my video btw only an using my second channel

Very goood

Hi any idea how to draw hexagonal convex lens? Thanks!

@with-Aryan

3 жыл бұрын

send me a link to see how it looks

@liying1994

3 жыл бұрын

@@with-Aryan www.powerphotonic.com/products/micro-lens-arrays/microlens-arrays Hi Ryan, this is the link, I want to draw some hexagonal lens array on a thin block of 1mm. Thank you

hi, can you teach how to draw honeycomb but just only 3 ? means for mould brick. I really want know how it is because i need to do my design final year project. i hope u can help me TQ ;)

@with-Aryan

2 жыл бұрын

same procedure man, just do three hexagons and draw the frame around it

How can i make the sketch as a 2d surface only?

@with-Aryan

3 жыл бұрын

follow every step but instead of extruding it, go to SURFACE tab and use flat surface

I like

@with-Aryan

3 ай бұрын

Thanks!

dude your dimentions are messed up pretty badly, your ignoring all of the warnings for example @ 3:34 between the two exact points you have 0.433, 0.5 and 0.25 lol thanks for the video anyway

@with-Aryan

10 жыл бұрын

@2:29 I have all of my dimensions fully defined. the rest of the action is for the sake of the video to show the distance between the certain points. as for the 0.433 is my dy and not the direct perpendicular distance beween the edges. hope it clears everything out.

@aarons2869

5 жыл бұрын

The warnings are for that dimension already being driven by another set dimension, thus adding it is redundant in the eyes of SW.