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Re: cad.new down?

Nope, not just you.

See also:

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/25726/cad-new-no-longer-working

S1mon

Re: Assembly Planes - Where are they?

No update. It's one of the strangest product decisions that I had to get used to in Onshape. I usually create an assembly mate connector at the origin to make it easier to mate parts or sub-assemblies. If it's helpful, it's not hard for this "origin" mate connector to have its Z axis pointing in the direction that makes the most sense for your subsequent mates.

The most challenging issue of not having assembly planes is taking cross sections when there isn't a good reference to start from. It's even worse on mobile.

Perhaps you can explain what you're trying to do with assembly planes and we can tell you how to work around it?

Here are some past discussions (which you may have seen already):

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/17807/mobile-sections

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/94921#Comment_94921

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/16948/cross-section-through-origin-by-default

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/5050/why-is-the-ability-to-use-and-mate-to-the-planes-used-in-part-construction-missing-in-assemblies

S1mon

Re: Coral pattern/shape on 3D-Objekts

I thought of a partial hacky solution actually! Since voronoi patterns are very related to the intersection of circles (or spheres for 3D ones) I used Attractor Pattern to cut a bunch of spheres into my main shape, then Project Curve to project those edges back onto my base surface like this. From there I'm not sure the best way to thicken each wire, but the thing that comes to mind is a simple custom feature to sweep a circle on each curve. I don't have time at the moment to draft that, but it could be quite simple. Hopefully this gets you started.

EvanReese

Re: New Custom Feature: Publish Geometry

Thanks so much, @joshtargo! I'm definitely on board for this kind of workflow and I'll try it out.

@S1mon re: "favorites" folder. I agree this was something I used to use. These days I'll often add an odd character to my "favorites" and use the search bar. It can be handy by way of having multiple separate lists if you care. For example use "." for some things and "~" for some things.

EvanReese

Exclude Parts from Drwaing(s)?

Do we have a way of excluding certain parts from Drawings? I just happen to have parts I need, but not on drawings. I could make another assembly with/without these, but if parts could be excluded from drawings just like from BOMs, that would pretty much awesome.

martin_kopplow

Re: The Perfect Mouse for CAD

Mx Master 3S in black

fnxf

Re: thin extrude on part edges

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/111914#Comment_111914

Yeah I do this somewhat frequently too. I'll click a face and extrude that (works fine) and then realize it should just be a wall of constant width instead but you can't select faces or edges and use thin extrude. Making a sketch and using "use" is never as robust

jason_1