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Re: Request: sketches should be usable as planes
I see, thanks for the tips. I was aware of selecting closed regions, but mate connector trick makes it usable for construction lines, which is nice.
Re: Help to model this banana sign
I think that could be pulled off with a couple of surface lofts and a thicken. Take this course and I bet you'll be able to pull it off no problem:
https://learn.onshape.com/learn/course/onshape-surface-modeling/
Here is a very quick stab:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/7b265f9547ea96d0c8af0858/w/a086dde488156e48d7b16a86/e/089f5b5a3d6906d467b907b3
Re: Laser joint got funny?
I tested your setup with older versions of the feature with similar issues. I think it's something about how your parts are designed. The "Steering Servo tray" (light blue in your image) isn't a flat laser-cuttable sheet, which could be throwing it off.
Re: How to assembly constrain a square bar (45x45mm) in a square hole (50x50mm), centered in both
Ha Michael, thanks for your great responce. I did use Siemens NX for many years. Which works a bit different … Therefor I already did spend a lot of time in de Onshape learning documentation, learning the part studio concept and the assembly concept with the mate connectors.
I will try your proposal. Now know where to "gamble around" >;-)
Hans
Re: cad.new no longer working
I love this feature too, I'm looking forward to getting it back :)
Re: onshape drawing to laser engrave file
Hi Brady. I've been doing this a lot in the past weeks, since I got myself a laser cutter to make custom gaskets and it works like a charm.
Here's how I go about:
First, I create my design in Onshape. There will probably be some kind of flange face.
Then, I create my gasket to fit the flange face. That'll be a sketch made on the flange face and then thickened or so.
Next; I'll create a drawing of my gasket. I put on the dimensions and everything for the shop and documentation. The usual stuff.
After the usual steps, I create a second sheet in the drawing, set scale to 1:1 and delete all the frame and everything that comes with it, to get a blank page.
Then insert a view of my gasket (that is perpendicular to the flat face) onto that sheet. I don't add anything else.
I move that view to the lower left corner of the sheet, for Laser GRBL has the origin in the lower left.
Now, I export that sheet in SVG format.
While SVG can be read by LaserGRBL right away, there is one last obstacle to climb: Onshape will export the sheet boundary as a rectangle, no matter what. This would then be lasered, too, which we don't want. So I open the SVG file in Inkscape and delete the page boundaries. I also have an Inkscape template that has the size of the working area of my laser and a grid to help positioning the cut shapes and some predifined layers: "Engrave" "Holes", "Inner Shapes" and "Outer Shapes".
Laser GRBL will cut the lowest layer first, so I put the geometry on these layers and then engraving happens first, on the new sheet, then holes all over the place, then inner shapes while everything is still securely in place, and only then cut out the outer shapes.
You could just export the original drawing as SVG to LaserGRBL, but that would limit your choice of scale, and it would require you to set a colour other than black for everything but the contour to cut. LaserGRBL can filter for Black, Red, Green and Blue, so that would work in theory, but is less reliable and since the page boundaries and frame would have to be removed anyway, I prefer the approach with the blank page. At that, this will keep the laser countour with the model, update when design is modified, and be available for export at any time.
All the laser owners in this forum: Please support the ticket for enabling sketch-to-SVG im-/export and removing the page boundaries from SVG exports!
Re: Why is inserting a view of a configured assembly instance into a drawing not possible?
A "phantom" sub-assembly should work…
Moving the hinge to a sub-assy should not mess up the mates.
It would be nice to have a way to do this "natively" as it can be tricky to make sure you are using the correct configuration on a drawing.
