Can someone explain why im getting this error and failure to pattern?
First one is in sync and doing the pattern last, the second pattern first then extrusions last.
If its done all in ordered, i can pattern without issues.
What if you patterned the synchronous as bodies in the way you do the ordered?
Or what if you close the line at the base of that spade shape? Combining open sketches with closed sketches always kind of bothers me.
Those would be the first two things I’d try. I don’t have the software right here in front of me to play with.
I thought about the open shape on the spade, i should have closed the profile instead of just using the circular sketch… still learning…
I did close the spade and tried to pattern after the center protrusions but still get the error.
I’ll try again in the morning… i dont recall having pattern issues like this.
Thanks for the tips Matt!
I tried the pattering again in synch, as long as i extrude and pattern the spade before the center round extrusions, the pattern works, if i extrude the center then pattern the spade it fails with same error.
I looked into this, and I think it’s a bug.
It works if the hole is not there, and it doesn’t matter if the hole was created along with the original extrusion or as a separate operation.
Also, it doesn’t seem to matter if the selection is by feature or by individual face selection.
It also works if the hole just creates a cut, but not an enclosed loop. For example if the hole were much bigger, so it just cut across the arm piece.
Anyway, I’d report this as a bug because it certainly should work.
As an aside, selections in Solid Edge have been a shortcoming for a long time, and they aren’t getting fixed. This synchronous function requires pre-selection. That’s ok, but you can’t see a list of selected items, only a visual which you have to flip the model to verify, and you can’t edit the selection once you’ve started the feature. Editability is prime.
To fix this, I would show a selection identifier box somewhere on the screen for ALL functions that shows what types of entities you have selected (planar faces, cyl faces, surface bodies, solid bodies, edges, etc) identify them by color or some visual, and also give a mouse-over highlight so you can find which occurrences the list is referencing. I always feel insecure in my selections in SE because once you get started, you have to follow through to know if you got the right things.
Matt, thanks for looking at it, good to know it wasn’t me screwing up it was driving me crazy 
So far, it looks like ordered works best for some of my drawings over synched.
I can’t seem to reproduce this. I’m using 2025 with Update 0006.