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Free Onshape Projects with instruction sheets, drawings and step by step videos available

Hi, I am a retired teacher and have developed a series of instructional projects for teaching Onshape in the classroom or online. Each project has a free downloadable instruction sheet with dimensioned drawings and link to step by step videos. There are projects for making parts, assemblies and animations. Projects like a fidget spinner, do nothing machine, toy airplane or robot gripper are available in this format. There is also a set of 20 part modeling projects to teach many aspects of sketching and part modeling. New materials is being added. Please check it out
https://cadvideotutor.com

John_Granger

Re: Issue with loft and matching verticies

You're right, you can only select one vertex per profile. Don't think of Match Vertices as a vertex-to-vertex map. It's more of a clocking feature that sets "vertex 0" for each profile. The best way to force correct vertex mapping is to make sure each profile has the same number of line segments. It looks like your blue body has 8 segments (4 sides, 2 chamfers, 2 fillets). Instead of using the end of your shaft as the profile, start a sketch on that surface, Use/Convert the circular edge, and use the Split command to segment that circle into 8 pieces. Now when you use the Match Vertices option, the rest of the loft should fall in line.

Here's an example.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57acdfaae4b005c413ed9b6f/w/3fd585a46d3af1b3ba413c53/e/d83a0ad59f9f6a2a297dc6e7

mahir