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Re: How do I constrain all sides. When I try I get "Sketch could not be solved"
The length dimension (37) is already implied by the other dimensions (145-5-10-10-83 = 37) so you cannot add a driving dimension without overconstraining it all and making it go red. What you do need is some sort of dimension for the vertical spacing of those 2 blue entities. Or otherwise add a constraint to make them align vertically with the 83mm long line segment. Add one such thing and the whole sketch will be fully defined,
Re: How do I constrain all sides. When I try I get "Sketch could not be solved"
That 37 is unnecessary because the whole thing is 145 and you've got other horizontal dimensions (5, 83, 10, 10). What's missing is the height of that right rectangle.
Re: Vehicle coordinate system
at Honda we didn't use left and right, we use DR (driver side) and AS (assistant side, for the passenger side of the car, which can reverse depending on country). However almost all of our work was driver side only, except for a few things on the interior, such as the instrument panel (dash).
Re: Vehicle coordinate system
No doubt there are hundreds of users (most of them on Education plans) using Onshape to design competition robots: FRC, FTC, Vex and others. Teaching these CAD novices that the orientation of a new robot model should be chosen carefully doesn't carry much weight when "Left" doesn't really mean "Left" . Let's round up some votes.
New Custom Feature: Publish Geometry
Directly inspired (copied) from @GregBrown's great Top Down video, I wrote my own version of Publish Geometry, which allows you to make Composite Parts that can include Bodies, Faces, Sketch regions, Curves, and Mate Connectors.
One Derive can bring in all of this stuff as a single Composite Part to use as reference geometry for further design work.
I think the script is ok, but let me know if you find bugs.
Improvement Request: Change a variable scope
When working on a part I often create variables that I later find would have been better defined in a variable studio or as a configuration variable. I think it would be nice if I could select a variable and change it to a configuration variable, a variable table, or a part studio — options would depend on where the variable is currently defined.
Re: Vehicle coordinate system
Here's the link to the improvement request I made earlier:
Maybe other automotive/naval/aerospace designers could add their support to it?
Re: Routing curve & Control point curve - Introduction of two new features for 3D curve creation
Chris, sounds like your "route curve" parametrics are held together with duct tape and hope