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      <div class="title_topic4" id="xps10_pagetitle">Pattern, Reflect, and Scale</div>
      <hr noshade="true"><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap733"></a><p class="para_topic"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/ideas_logo.gif" border="0"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/arrow.gif" border="0"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/nx_logo.gif" border="0"></p>
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            <p class="defObject"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/ideas_rule.gif" border="0"><br><img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_mm_pattern.gif" border="0"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_mm_pattern_cir.gif" border="0"> <img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_mm_reflect.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Rectangular Pattern</b>, <b class="uiTerm">Circular Pattern</b>, <b class="uiTerm">Reflect</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/nx_rule.gif" border="0"></p>
            <p class="para_defMeaning">In NX, use the <b class="uiTerm">Instance Feature</b> command to create circular and rectangular patterns.
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/icons/icon_instance.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Instance</b></p>
                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Associative Copy</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Instance feature</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">The result is called an array of instances. Each instance is listed in the <b class="uiTerm">Part Navigator</b> as a separate feature that can be independently suppressed or modified. 
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">To reflect features, bodies, or geometry, use the commands:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Associative Copy</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Mirror Feature</b></p>
                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Associative Copy</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Mirror Body</b></p>
                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Associative Copy</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Instance Geometry</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">See also:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_30.html');return(false);">Mirror and Pattern</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Help: <img align="bottom" src="graphics/widgets/book_closed.gif" border="0"> Design &rarr; Modeling &rarr;  Creating Objects from the Insert Menu
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            <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/nx_rule.gif" border="0"></p>
            <p class="para_defMeaning">Scale bodies about the <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/02qt_nx_basics_36.html');return(false);">WCS</a>:
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/icons/icon_scale_body.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Scale</b></p>
                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Offset/Scale</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Scale</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">See also:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Help: <img align="bottom" src="graphics/widgets/book_closed.gif" border="0"> Design &rarr; Modeling &rarr;  Creating Objects from the Insert Menu
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         <dt><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap735"></a><a name="ndxgenid_roadmap736"></a><p class="defObject"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/ideas_rule.gif" border="0"><br><img align="bottom" src="graphics/ideas/des_mm_feature_copy.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Feature Copy</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/commandref/nx_rule.gif" border="0"></p>
            <p class="para_defMeaning">To copy individual or groups of features:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Edit</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Copy</b></p>
                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><b class="uiTerm">Edit</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Paste</b></p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">NX does not have the exact commands <b class="uiTerm">Create Component</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Feature Copy</b>. A similar process could use either <a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/05qt_parts_40.html');return(false);"><b class="uiTerm">Copy</b> and <b class="uiTerm">Paste</b></a>, <b class="uiTerm">WAVE Geometry Linker</b>, or <b class="uiTerm">Promote</b>. 
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/icons/icon_promote_body.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Promote</b><b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Associative Copy</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Promote</b></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><img align="bottom" src="graphics/icons/application_assemblies.gif" border="0"> <b class="uiTerm">Assemblies</b> application menu<b class="uiTerm">Insert</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">Associative Copy</b> &rarr; <b class="uiTerm">WAVE Geometry Linker</b></p>
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                        <p class="para_tip_body">An NX .prt file can contain multiple solid bodies. You can model with multiple bodies within the same file in a similar way to using components and bushy tree modeling.</p>
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            <p class="para_defMeaning">See also:</p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/07qt_assemblies_26.html');return(false);">Interpart relationships</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/07qt_assemblies_28.html');return(false);">WAVE Geometry Linker</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning"><a class="links" href="javascript:void(0)" onclick="top.openFile('roadmap/07qt_assemblies_29.html');return(false);">Derived Parts</a></p>
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Help: <img align="bottom" src="graphics/widgets/book_closed.gif" border="0"> Design &rarr; Modeling &rarr;  Creating Objects from the Insert Menu &rarr; Associative Copy
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                  <p class="para_defMeaning">Help: <img align="bottom" src="graphics/widgets/book_closed.gif" border="0"> Design &rarr; Assemblies &rarr;  Interpart Modeling &amp; WAVE
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