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Re: How to remove extrude/shell without overhang
@bladec I didn't realize that "Up to next" would work that way! In fact, I've never found an "up to next" that worked for me, so I always use other workflows.
You really DO learn something new every day.
Re: What does Onshape have against the numbers 0,4,6,8,9 and the letters A,B,D,O,P,Q and sometimes R
A public document - maintained by Onshape - that catalogs the fonts would make a lot of sense. Seems like a good reason to create an Improvement Request.
S1mon
Re: Does this represent the tap drill size?
This sound like the common theme in all industry…can't find good/competent help. so the trend of placing that responsibility goes up the chain. Lots of 'experience' gone out the door to retirement or similar.
MDesign
Re: It's Bwoken Again!
Why do you keep doing this? These are parts you modeled from scratch. No derives or imports. New part studios are free;) If the parts don't have any relationship to each other, they should be in their own studio, and drawn about the default planes. If they do have relationships to each other, they should be drawn in place.
Also what are you doing with contexts? I'm guessing any time you want to edit a part, you go to the asm and click edit in context. It makes a new context, and you go about editing the part. My coworker was doing this, and he'd end up with 20 contexts on a simple part studio.
Re: Gear relation is working when I move one of the parts, but not the other.
I made a discovery, but I'm not sure how to fix it. The gear relationship in question is "Gear 3" and in order to get it to work, I needed a revolute mate to pair it with the "Step_S" revolute mate. I tried to do this with any of my existing revolute mates (even from the sub-assy), but none of them quite worked properly. So, I created a "Dummy Axis" (DA) part to use for a revolute mate. After making that part, I created "Carrier_DummyAxis" revolute mate and thereby was able to build the gear relationship.This leads to my discovery. I previously had the DA hidden. I revealed it, tried turning it, and lo and behold, the "Step_S" gear turned. So instead of the "Step_S" part having the gear relationship with the "Carrier_Gear" part in the sub-assy, it appears to be with the DA part. However, I don't know how to fix this. I tried "fixing" the DA part, but that resulted in many errors accross the assy and sub-assy. Again, I'm not sure why this is, because in "V3" of the project, I originally had the revolute mate tied to the "faceplate" which is also "fixed".
So, if anyone is able to provide insight as to what is causing this, I would be very appreciative! I'm sure there is a better way to do what I'm trying to do, but I haven't been able to figure it out.
Re: AI which know Feature Script (or can learn)
Its going to be a long time until a LLM can produce a useful featurescript. Until then its actually bringing in more work for me. I'm getting lots of requests from new customers who tried to use AI to write the feature - failed - and then decided it was worth paying a professional to make the feature.
@maciek it might be helpful to the community to share where you found this freelancer so that others in the future could avoid being scammed.
Re: Does this represent the tap drill size?
While I agree with you on not controlling a machinist, there are a ton of shops that don't have someone with that level of experience that need this info on the drawings to control how the parts are made. For example, almost the entire shop that I work with has no clue what a drill/tap chart is or what the difference between allowance and tolerance is. If I were to show them GD&T symbols or specify a fit class/type, their heads would explode.
Re: How to remove extrude/shell without overhang
extrude remove up to the opposing surfaces with an offset
Here is how you can do it that way. You create a sketch and create an offset of the face with amount you want to shell by and then do a remove extrude up to next with an offset distance.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8424e3ad6e015dd02e4a0118/v/47333a217ba0becc7cf544d2/e/279d66c78d967ff867284ba0
bladec
Re: Printing PDF files
Take care when printing from the browser. I've seen funny scaling effects recently, when I used a client's Mac to print some drawings. Printing the downloaded PDF yielded much more consistent results.
