I have an assembly where I want to linear pattern acomponent, in this case about 15 rectangular bars, and then once inplace, the components will be cut and modified so that eachinstance will be quite unique. I currently did this by patterning apart, then using assembly features to modify them. However, thisobviously won't allow me to open or make a drawing of each instanceand see the unique geometry for each one.

Has anyone dealt with a similar problem before? THere's more thanone way to do just about anything, but does anyone haverecommendations? Should I make all these bars one part and do thepatterning in the sketches, that way I could save each body as anidividual part? Or would it be better to make each bar individuallyin-context of the assembly? I like the idea of keeping it a patternso I can easily adjust the spacing of the bars.

Any comments are much appreciatedSolidworksAssemblies