Mousetrap:
That is how I see it also but I have worked for several companies that although state ANSI compliance, have adopted in-house convention of using VIEW labels and not DETAIL labels. So I was interested in what the ANSI standard actually says and if there is leniency in the standard for...
Can you not just create your feature patterned in the parent part and then in assembly create the mating patterns by using the "derived pattern" option? This gaurantees that the mating parts always have the same pattern, but you must decide on which part is going to be the parent and...