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Re: Sketch is not contrain
It looks like offsets might be involved. If you’ve trimmed them, you could end up with stray points that overlap with other vertices but aren’t properly constrained. I’d carefully check each vertex to see if multiple points are in the same spot.
Re: how to put the cubes together in assembly?
the cubes? where are the cubes coming from?
in assemblies, you could rearrange cubes with fastened mates. one mate should do (edge to edge, face to face, doesn't matter).
but it seems more logical to draw one cube and create linear patterns… rather than rearranging cubes that come from elsewhere?
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
Can we get the cosmetic threads to generate a matching shader in Render Studio next (also needed for all "standard parts" that have threads)?
It's a bit jarring to have all fasteners show up as smooth "rods" in Render studio (and not exactly trivial to create something realistic looking either)!
Re: How do I make a faceted cylinder design?
It's actually not my feature (I'm not mathy enough to code this yet). It's by the brilliant and prolific @Konst_Sh
Re: How to join two parts in Assembly into one part (for 3D print)
Easiest option Just select the parts you want to export as one and turn off this setting 'Export unique parts as individual files'. This will create a single STL file with all parts arranged as you have it in assembly.
MDesign
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
This is a great update, but am I supposed to be able to use the measure tool on a routing curve to find its length? If I can't get the total length of hose/tubes/wires made with routing curve, I won't really be able to use it.
I didn't think cosmetic threads would be that important to me, but I was just reminded that I'm going to need to tap some holes in a part I'm making I might have forgotten about!
jason_1
Re: Custom Material
you can make your own material library and add materials that you happen to use often there.
That way you won't have to create it each time…
assembly degrees of freedom
found this older post with no conclusive answer.
assembly degrees of freedom — Onshape
I have a lot of (quite complex) assemblies with mates relative to a (virtual) origin point and the position of parts is depending of the mates of several other parts (mimicking the actual degrees of freedom in the real assembly) In the end everything should be fully constrained (but only by adding the last constrain this is achieved)
So, It would be very handy to see the degrees of freedom left to solve in the assembly...
If not, would this make an interesting feature request?