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In this video, I'm going to show you an even faster way to make several bodies at once.

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Alright, so in the last view, we explored smartmates, which was a great time saver for mating

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bodies using basic mates.

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But if we wanted to, we could actually take the conditions of this mate and repeat them

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in a single command at every instance that they would occur instead of having to bring

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in the screw three more times and then running through that mating process all over again.

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And the way we do that is if we go up here to basic assembly tools in this drop-down

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menu here, the pattern-driven component pattern.

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So we've created patterns in assemblies before, linear and circular, but we haven't done

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anything that's driven by a component itself.

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So let's take a look at that.

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Now the way this works is, we'll first select the component that needs to be duplicated

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and then mated to the new areas, and in this case, it's this screw, and then it asks

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for a driving feature.

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So at this point, we need to select a surface or a vertex that is part of a feature that

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was created that is necessary for that mate to occur.

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In this case, this surface right here was created from a hole, a single cut.

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We did a cut extrude in one of our early videos that cut all four holes.

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This surface right here was created by the hole wizard, which is again just a single feature.

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So if we were to say, select this surface here.

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Oh, rather, let's get out of components of pattern.

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Make sure we're highlighted into driving feature or component.

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Select a surface created by the hole wizard.

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All right, it's populated a screw with similar mates in that spot there.

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And it's also recognized the other instances on that surface where that feature exists.

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So therefore, we've gotten four screws for the price of one.

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Let's go ahead and close this out.

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Like any pattern we can do instances to skip, but we're going to leave this alone for

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right now.

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Now this works especially well when doing fasteners and patterning to a whole wizard feature.

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And that's why it's great to use whole wizard when you're going to have a part that has

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a lot of screws in it.

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And especially if you're going to be mating all those screws, alternatively one by one,

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which you don't want to do.

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So go ahead before the next video, add screws to this hole, this hole, this hole, and this

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hole using any method you wish.

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And we will begin to look at some more complex mates available in SOLIDWORKS.