How to drive a semi- repetitive pattern ?

As you can see, i'm trying to position the cutters on the hexagonal shaft, each cutter plate makes an angel of 60° with the cutter edge of the cutter plate just behind it, and a simple spacer is between them. The process is really slow, is there anyway that i can speed it up ?

2 Answers

How many pattern you need? you can use the parametric methods available to do this depending on your software.

Can you mate the first three cutters, then use a pattern for the rest?