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Josh Gomez requests pattern calculations take the total number of instances, not the number of extra repetitions to do. This is how we designed the patternTransform API, but we didn't do that for patternLinear/Circular.
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title: "patternLinear2d"
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excerpt: "Repeat a 2-dimensional sketch along some dimension, with a dynamic amount"
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layout: manual
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---
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Repeat a 2-dimensional sketch along some dimension, with a dynamic amount
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of distance between each repetition, some specified number of times.
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```js
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patternLinear2d(data: LinearPattern2dData, sketch_set: SketchSet) -> [Sketch]
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```
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### Arguments
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| Name | Type | Description | Required |
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|----------|------|-------------|----------|
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| `data` | [`LinearPattern2dData`](/docs/kcl/types/LinearPattern2dData) | Data for a linear pattern on a 2D sketch. | Yes |
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| `sketch_set` | [`SketchSet`](/docs/kcl/types/SketchSet) | A sketch or a group of sketches. | Yes |
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### Returns
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[`[Sketch]`](/docs/kcl/types/Sketch)
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### Examples
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```js
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exampleSketch = startSketchOn('XZ')
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|> circle({ center: [0, 0], radius: 1 }, %)
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|> patternLinear2d({
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axis: [1, 0],
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instances: 7,
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distance: 4
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}, %)
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example = extrude(1, exampleSketch)
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```
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