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Re: Join Onshape’s Newest User Group—Women Who CAD
Hi Katie! I can't promise I'll be super active as I'm extremely busy but I'd love to join!
From my experience even if young women, like myself, pursue engineering the majority of them who make it to graduation don't want to become engineers afterwards. I graduated in 2014 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering as one of only 5 women and when I asked the two other females I was closer to why they said that they just said it wasn't in their interest. I grew up a tom boy with 95% of my friends being male because I had no interest in the drama and mean ways girls generally attack each other at a younger age. I'm not sure if that's why I was more passionate about technology and machines than other females or if it's just my nature as I like to be well rounded and learn about anything and everything (even "girly" things). Hard to push people who don't have an interest in engineering to do it though and perhaps that is why things aren't changing as quickly as others would like it to.
I did notice that even after getting into engineering professionally I was being paid much less than my friends I graduated with and they also were promoted way sooner than I was even though I was a proven rock star at the company I joined and was ambitiously working with my boss to try to get the promotion. I think it had mainly to do with the company way of doing business.
From my experience even if young women, like myself, pursue engineering the majority of them who make it to graduation don't want to become engineers afterwards. I graduated in 2014 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering as one of only 5 women and when I asked the two other females I was closer to why they said that they just said it wasn't in their interest. I grew up a tom boy with 95% of my friends being male because I had no interest in the drama and mean ways girls generally attack each other at a younger age. I'm not sure if that's why I was more passionate about technology and machines than other females or if it's just my nature as I like to be well rounded and learn about anything and everything (even "girly" things). Hard to push people who don't have an interest in engineering to do it though and perhaps that is why things aren't changing as quickly as others would like it to.
I did notice that even after getting into engineering professionally I was being paid much less than my friends I graduated with and they also were promoted way sooner than I was even though I was a proven rock star at the company I joined and was ambitiously working with my boss to try to get the promotion. I think it had mainly to do with the company way of doing business.
Evilegi
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Re: Share part or drawing with students?
If you share a document with copy enabled they can copy the entire document.
Re: Axis needed for circular pattern of a square feature
1) Create an explicit mate connector (either in part studio or assembly).
2) Or when inserting you can turn on the sketch filter to insert sketch to assembly
3) Then use one of those for axis.
I am sure Onshape will soon add mate connector to the axis selection field like most other features already have.
2) Or when inserting you can turn on the sketch filter to insert sketch to assembly
3) Then use one of those for axis.
I am sure Onshape will soon add mate connector to the axis selection field like most other features already have.
Re: Tools and commands come and go willy-nilly!
The icons do change. This is to bring to the forefront what you'll need for the task at hand. When working in a sketch the tools switch to sketching mode. If this did not happen you would have a very busy screen to keep ALL tools visible at any given time. Have worked with programs like that in the past and am happy not to see anymore.
Prachi
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Re: I need to use a surface in another part to cut a solid in a separate part within the same assembly.
Try the Derived feature or maybe in-context - search the help for examples.
New Feature: Selection Draft
I finally got round to making a feature I've been wanting since ever. In a similar vein to my Selection Fillet feature, this one automates the tedious task of picking all of those little faces to draft, that are also fairly unstable when the design changes. It's especially handy since the native Rib feature doesn't include a draft option yet. In the past, drafting the faces of something like a waffle rib pattern was just so painful to do and impossible to do robustly. This feature makes it pretty simple. Enjoy!
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/422ce39a8bcf33fd298f57a3/v/f22ce76d44226dec79ef6aba/e/1107a0d95c373981db3448fb
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/422ce39a8bcf33fd298f57a3/v/f22ce76d44226dec79ef6aba/e/1107a0d95c373981db3448fb
Re: Are gear mates really that hard to do in OnShape?
@wesley, mating gears is not particularly difficult in Onshape. Use REVOLUTE or other appropriate mates to constrain the motion of each gear individually. Then apply a Gear RELATION to those MATES. The attached screenshot illustrates a typical feature tree for this.
Take a deep breathe and slowly repeat the phrase, "Onshape is different than SolidWorks". Onshape offers some very unique and generally innovative workflows but will force you to unlearn some of your old standbys.
