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Lesson Idea 1: Build Leonardo da Vinci's Ornithopter
Hi everyone!
I'm with the PTC Academic team that is supporting educators using Onshape in their classrooms. Ever since PTC acquired Onshape at the end of 2019, we have been learning how to use this design platform and seeing how it could benefit educators in the classroom. As we became familiar with Onshape, we created lots of different models and designs as well as lesson ideas around these documents. We want to share these with you and going forward will be posting them here in the Instructor Community. Feel free to make copies of the documents and use them however you want for your class. We would appreciate your feedback and encourage you to share any of your own lessons that you find successful. Here's the first one!
I'm with the PTC Academic team that is supporting educators using Onshape in their classrooms. Ever since PTC acquired Onshape at the end of 2019, we have been learning how to use this design platform and seeing how it could benefit educators in the classroom. As we became familiar with Onshape, we created lots of different models and designs as well as lesson ideas around these documents. We want to share these with you and going forward will be posting them here in the Instructor Community. Feel free to make copies of the documents and use them however you want for your class. We would appreciate your feedback and encourage you to share any of your own lessons that you find successful. Here's the first one!
Curriculum Idea: Learning about 3D Assemblies & Leonardo da Vinci
Topic area: Flying Machines/Invention
Description: This project involves having the students do some research about Leonardo da Vinci and his designs for flight. Following this, the students could complete Onshape’s learning module on assembly and then use the parts in the included model to assemble their own ornithopter.
There are relatively cheap kits that students can purchase to build at home as well. For a more challenging project, students could attempt to design Leonardo da Vinci’s other inventions in CAD.
Learning Objectives: After completing this project, students should be able to:
Describe Leonardo da Vinci’s designs for flight
Use Mate connectors to assemble parts
Use Relations to make the ornithopter work as a mechanism
Models: Link to Ornithopter
Other resources:
DaVinci Content
Assembly learning module
Re: Changes To Onshape's Plans
I agree with you. They basically just cut out the hobbyist small startup who is trying to work on getting a commercial product going so they can afford to move up. I know they are trying to protect their commercial product because someone's got to pay for the development, but I think this is a step in the wrong direction. They need to add an in between tier that the semi-pro can afford who is working out of pocket.Jlabs said:Obviously OnShape doesn't care at about non-professional users, makers, or hobbyists. Removing private documents from free plans is fine, but not offering an affordable pricing tier for non-professionals who would prefer to work on their designs privately is pretty crappy. Off to Fusion 360...
When I saw the email, I was hopping they had added a pricing tier in between free and pro that reflected what I needed; instead they pretty much made Onshape useless for me. I'm a single user working on private designs that may someday make money. I have no need of the whole collaboration suite of features, maybe vital to a big company, useless to me. All I needed was the same 5 or 10 private documents with a little more storage space and I'd be happy to pay for that increase in space, but not $100-$125 for something that obviously isn't a cost issue when they give 5gb+ for public docs.
As it is, I already bought a Fusion 360 license at much less cost. I only pay $40 a month for access to the entire suite of Adobe products. Here they gave me a choice between paying nothing or a lot and now even the nothing isn't worth it. Disable the collaboration, BOM, etc on the free and start-up tiers, make that enterprise only. Give another 100mb/private per $10/month on a start-up tier and I would have happily paid. That's all I would have needed.
kevin_34
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Re: Changes To Onshape's Plans
Obviously OnShape doesn't care at about non-professional users, makers, or hobbyists. Removing private documents from free plans is fine, but not offering an affordable pricing tier for non-professionals who would prefer to work on their designs privately is pretty crappy. Off to Fusion 360...
Jlabs
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Re: HOW TO GET COLORED PARTS IN A SECTIONAL VIEW ?
Hi @chand_basha
I accidentally found this technique a while back, it might work for your application.
Try changing the part color each of the different parts.
Then change the face color to something uniform. To select all of the faces at once, window select by dragging your mouse from the right to the left.
I accidentally found this technique a while back, it might work for your application.
Try changing the part color each of the different parts.
Then change the face color to something uniform. To select all of the faces at once, window select by dragging your mouse from the right to the left.
New feature to share: Scale
I have been impressed with the excellent help on this forum and now I am sharing a new feature called Scale that I created with that assistance.
I needed to be able to place a scale (think an axis with labels for the ticks) on objects in my drawings. The Scale feature is meant to be a fairly general solution to that problem.
I needed to be able to place a scale (think an axis with labels for the ticks) on objects in my drawings. The Scale feature is meant to be a fairly general solution to that problem.
- Scale can be used on cylinders and planes
- Scale is hard coded to create labels for linear scales using base 10. It could be easily modified for other bases.
- The length of the scale is always in the direction of the x axis as defined by the mate connector in location.
- The height of the scale (height of the text and length of the ticks) is in the direction of the y axis
- The z axis is pointing normal to surface
- The maximum value of the scale can be any number. If the maximum scale value is not a natural tick label, then the scale is still drawn to be precisely the correct length for the maximum scale value with extra minor ticks at the end of the end of the scale and extra space as needed. Here is a scale with a maximum value of 19.65 in a length of 0.5 meters.
- The number of tick labels is set to be a maximum of 11. Set the text size as needed so the text doesn't overlap. GIven that the text can be rotated and that the number of digits is variable I didn’t not attempt to automate the size of the text to not overlap.
- The text can be rotated and the scale can be rotated independently.
Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
@rod_muirhead943
Believe me, when we get around to implementing this functionality, we won't only have "Rebuild" and "Force rebuild", we'll leapfrog the competition by adding "Force force rebuild" and even maybe "Force force force rebuild"!
Believe me, when we get around to implementing this functionality, we won't only have "Rebuild" and "Force rebuild", we'll leapfrog the competition by adding "Force force rebuild" and even maybe "Force force force rebuild"!
ilya_baran
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Re: Improvements to Onshape - April 6, 2015
@john_mcclaryjohn_mcclary said:Yea, they should add it in, and have it not do anything. Kind of like the close door button in an elevator
@owen_sparks
Or make it say: "Error: Onshape has crashed. Reason: Filesystem not found"
