<p>Answered by @agarza : Circular Pattern Tool (nb. may need to search for this; it's not in the tool bar by default).</p>

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2024-04-01T15:13:28.903Z
2024-04-01T15:13:28.903Z
jackisquizzical
<p>Imagine a thick-walled cylinder which is going to be 3D printed. I want to carve, say, ten identical detents in the top of the object, rotated around by 36 degrees. I know how to make one of these by creating a circle above the cylinder wall with the desired small arc reaching down into the top of the cylinder, and then remove extrude the circle. I want to avoid having to create ten of these super-carefully placed at 36 degrees from the another. Is there a way to rotationally replicate a sketch or extrude around a point or on a circle? I want to say something like: Do that thing again, at every 36° (or perhaps, ten times) around this circle.</p>

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2024-03-31T03:08:07.277Z
Have you tried the **Circular pattern** option?
agarza
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2024-04-01T15:08:27.493Z
I have now. Thanks!
jackisquizzical
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How to create multiple rotated detent-like cutouts in the of a cylinder in OnShape?
jackisquizzical
# How to create multiple rotated detent-like cutouts in the of a cylinder in OnShape?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2024-03-30)

Imagine a thick-walled cylinder which is going to be 3D printed. I want to carve, say, ten identical detents in the top of the object, rotated around by 36 degrees. I know how to make one of these by creating a circle above the cylinder wall with the desired small arc reaching down into the top of the cylinder, and then remove extrude the circle. I want to avoid having to create ten of these super-carefully placed at 36 degrees from the another. Is there a way to rotationally replicate a sketch or extrude around a point or on a circle? I want to say something like: Do that thing again, at every 36° (or perhaps, ten times) around this circle.

**Tags:** cad, rotation
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Have you tried the **Circular pattern** option?  
> **username_0**: I have now. Thanks!  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2024-04-01. Score: 0

Answered by @agarza : Circular Pattern Tool (nb. may need to search for this; it's not in the tool bar by default).


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