If the surface polar pattern is referenced to a revolve line such that the disc patterns do not intersect with the cube, FreeCAD will throw an error because you can't have multiple bodies within the same body entity.
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Thank you so much for your reply! Not sure why I didn't see it until now!
If the surface polar pattern is referenced to a revolve line such that the disc patterns do not intersect with the cube,
I don't think this should be an issue, as the axis I'm referencing for the polar pattern should result in all patterned discs intersecting the cube.
FreeCAD will throw an error because you can’t have multiple bodies within the same body entity.
Not entirely sure I understand this part. Are surfaces considered bodies, or are only things with volume considered bodies?
I'm having difficulty creating my polar pattern in the first place. The default behaviour of the polar pattern tool seems to be to pattern my cube, rather than my disc. If I manually remove the cube from the features list and select the disc instead, the following message pops up:
None of the three options seem to result in the behaviour I expected, which would be something like this:
Any advice?
Thanks!