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Re: ¿how to make a rectangular spiral?
Already two great solutions above. But, if you wanted even another way, a quick FS will do it.
Re: ¿how to make a rectangular spiral?
Kevin's will be the most straight forward way.
Here are a few more steps you could take to make the loop count dynamic with a feature pattern:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b7d15015b6ab6321bf96e2b4/w/213b8a00e5bccbbf533d2116/e/0053316…
Re: ¿how to make a rectangular spiral?
You could certainly do it with a Custom Feature, but creating a seed sketch and repeatedly offsetting it will also work (bit more manual). Particuarly if you drive everything off of one variable, you can edit that number and scale the whole spiral. Made a quick example, pretty fun!
Re: Exclude Parts from Drwaing(s)?
Ah! Thanks a lot. I completely forgot about diplay states being available in drawings and search in the help/learning section didn't reveal it either. Both these methods work on a per view basis, with display states, it being a kind of preset, appearing a bit more manageable, while sow/hide parts is quicker on an individual view. In my current case I now made a with / without assembly fixture drawing state and that pretty much does it, even if I have to activate it for every view. I just made a second sheet with the other state and hope this way it'll only need to be set one time and can be controlled from the assy when modifications need to be made.
Re: Exclude Parts from Drwaing(s)?
Hey @martin_kopplow,
The Display state functionality in the Assembly should do what you are looking for. This way you can create a Display state with the parts hidden that you don't want on your drawing. On your drawing you can then select that display state for your reference view.
Hope this helps. Cheers
Re: Exclude Parts from Drwaing(s)?
You can choose to do it on the drawing if isn't too many little parts?
Right click drawing view and show/hide parts
Re: cad.new down?
HI @john_rousseau . Totally not TMI, that's very interesting. For the moment https://cad.onshape.com/new is a good workaround. I do understand that there are higher priorities ATM. Thanks for your answer!
fnxf
Re: cad.new down?
Hi @fnxf. TMI: Originally Google hosted the .new domain. They did the registration, DNS service and redirect. We wanted to consolidate this under the registrar that PTC uses, so we moved the registration there and started using AWS Route53 for DNS service. We implemented the redirect in AWS. What we're seeing is that some places can resolve cad.new and some places can't. We've had tickets open with the new registrar, PTC IT, AWS, but nobody has come up with the answer. It's something that I want to get back to, but there are higher priorities.
Re: When can we expect MCAD CoDesigner from Altium to be integrated with Onshape?
Hi all,
Just an update on this: Firstly, thank you all for your patience – we appreciate how important this functionality is to a lot of our users. We’re pleased to announce that the PCB Studio Altium-Onshape link will be available imminently as a Capability for Early Visibility users that have previously expressed an interest in helping us test and improve this functionality.
If you’re a Professional or Enterprise Onshape user with access to Altium and Altium 365 who would also like to be involved in this Early Visibility Program then please get in touch and we’ll add you to our list of EVP users.
If anyone has any further questions about what we're doing with Altium, or PCB Studio in general, then I'll try my best to help answer. Thanks!
RobLacey