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Re: Sectiion Views
@jack_o_toole866
YOU SAID —
I'd like to use it in the first sheet of a set of drawings for the project. Is that possible?
YOU SAID —
I'd like to use it in the first sheet of a set of drawings for the project. Is that possible?
The answer is yes it’s possible.
In the document below, in the Part Studio, I had various dimensions and the part showing, then I took a screenshot. I then imported the screenshot into the document, and then brought it into the drawing
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/efaf84db53cb7a9bc7d1317d/w/6742e53071a43fa77f7d5256/e/a0e7c3f8405c56bfbea99ce7
In the document below, in the Part Studio, I had various dimensions and the part showing, then I took a screenshot. I then imported the screenshot into the document, and then brought it into the drawing
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/efaf84db53cb7a9bc7d1317d/w/6742e53071a43fa77f7d5256/e/a0e7c3f8405c56bfbea99ce7
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Don't worry! The free Onshape Education Standard plan (Formerly the Onshape EDU plan) is not going anywhere. We wanted to create a solution for large schools and universities who are rolling out Onshape for hundreds of students.
It’s a plan built specifically for schools and universities that wish to give large groups of their students access to CAD in the same way that a product development company would want an enterprise account for multiple users across its entire organization.
In fact, the Education Enterprise plan is based on Onshape Enterprise – Onshape’s highest level commercial offering. It is easily scaled across large classes, departments, and institutions; platform analytics provide visibility into student usage and activity; and administrative features allow for easy management of permissions and sharing within your institution's private domain.
You can read more about Onshape Education Enterprise at our latest blog post here.
Don't worry! The free Onshape Education Standard plan (Formerly the Onshape EDU plan) is not going anywhere. We wanted to create a solution for large schools and universities who are rolling out Onshape for hundreds of students.
Re: sweep obviously incorrect.... how can I do this?
in this case, since your cutter is conical, can't you just extrude it all straight and apply a draft that matches the angle of the cone?
I did the following here. does this do what you want?
I did the following here. does this do what you want?
- Extrude the letter curves
- move face by the radius of the cutter (it would be ideal if this offset was already captured in the sketch curves instead)
- draft all of the faces by 6.66, the angle of the conical cutter.
- use a variable fillet on all vertical sharp edges. Set the main radius to 3mm (cutter radius) and the bottom point of each one to "0.92244/2 mm" (radius of bottom of cutter)
- fillet the bottom edge of the extrude by 0.5mm (cutter tip radius)
Re: Duplicate or Copy Sheets
@matthew_jensen137 Not yet but we are working on adding that capability soon.
lougallo
6
Re: How to combine parts
Hi @MrMad1966 ,
To bring a part from one part studio into another you can use the "Derived" feature:
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/derived.htm
Really though, you should just create both blocks in the same part studio rather than using two separate studios.
https://learn.onshape.com/courses/fundamentals-multi-part-part-studios
https://learn.onshape.com/collections/onshape-fundamentals-cad
To bring a part from one part studio into another you can use the "Derived" feature:
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/derived.htm
Really though, you should just create both blocks in the same part studio rather than using two separate studios.
https://learn.onshape.com/courses/fundamentals-multi-part-part-studios
https://learn.onshape.com/collections/onshape-fundamentals-cad
Re: Automated exports to workflows
Hi, at the same time it's very general (de facto in solidworks pdm enviroment for example) and very custom because there are probably hundreds of different ways to define what is saved, how, where to and when etc...lougallo said:@Markku_L This is quite a custom request. I would say this is like the IFTTT of Onshape where you have triggers and actions. This would be much more than some export action but there are a number of things we are looking at in the future about how to automate workflows. I have moved this to product feedback for now as voting on such a request is not going to add much scope to what you are requesting. I can say that this is on our minds...'
Manual work is boring, it takes time and you make mistakes. It just sucks :-)
Markku_L
6
Re: fidget twister
Hello and welcome to the Onshape forums!
This looked like an interesting challenge to me, so I decided to make a tutorial video for it! Unfortunately, after I finished recording, I found out that you can hear a lot of fan and keyboard noise when recording with my laptop's built-in microphone, so I'll get a proper external microphone for future tutorials.
Here's a link to the video I made (I would put it on YouTube, but it's been taking ages to process, so I made a Vimeo account and it's a surprisingly pleasant experience!):
For the video, I just started a screen recording and talked through what I did as I went along (no editing) so I make some mistakes, but then show how to correct them. I hope this was helpful!
This looked like an interesting challenge to me, so I decided to make a tutorial video for it! Unfortunately, after I finished recording, I found out that you can hear a lot of fan and keyboard noise when recording with my laptop's built-in microphone, so I'll get a proper external microphone for future tutorials.
Here's a link to the video I made (I would put it on YouTube, but it's been taking ages to process, so I made a Vimeo account and it's a surprisingly pleasant experience!):
For the video, I just started a screen recording and talked through what I did as I went along (no editing) so I make some mistakes, but then show how to correct them. I hope this was helpful!
alnis
5
Re: How can I split a cylinder with asymetric separations?
@curtis_ball
Here is a way where you do not have to ‘go through the whole bottle with the same pattern’
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/619220f0d36b60f65cb9b2d2/w/3c1db0d361503e8694d76901/e/bad1f0841d869e2435c7f1f0
Here is a way where you do not have to ‘go through the whole bottle with the same pattern’
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/619220f0d36b60f65cb9b2d2/w/3c1db0d361503e8694d76901/e/bad1f0841d869e2435c7f1f0