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Re: Onshape server down?
Union mandated break, love it. Still less downtime than Solidworks.
Re: Still no improvements to dimension references?
@martin_kopplow it happens a LOT when we are analyzing and planning multi-joint robot movement in 2D sketches. there are many, many lines cluttering the sketch simply to make groups of lines move as one in different positions.
regardless, setting two or more dimensions (length or angle) equal or related to eachother is common in most modern CAD and has been a request for maybe a decade now
Still no improvements to dimension references?
EDITED to remove the word "Driven"
Is it still the case that you can not set two dimensions equal or mathematically related to each other within the same sketch?
How can this not be resolved after years of improvement request? It gets pretty tiresome to keep making triangles every time you want two driven angles to be equal, or two lines to be proportional.
And no, Variables do not solve this, it's something that needs to be done within a single sketch, without leaving the sketch.
Re: Onshape server down?
Yes, the status page said it went down 45min ago,
I'm sure they are hard on it
Re: Onshape server down?
Drat! I knew those "China" surveillance balloons were up to no good!
Re: How is selecting an entire sketch as input intended to work?
Extrude and other features like Revolve allow individual faces or entire sketches from the feature tree to be selected as inputs. For more complex part studios, it's best practice to store only one sketch region per sketch. This way you can have that entire sketch feature selected as the input for a feature. When the sketch changes to any shape, the feature will always reference the entire sketch and you wont need to re-select the faces again, even if they dramatically change shape and position.
Creating individual sketches with proper names does take more time to set up. So you have to decide what is most efficient for your workflow. Keep everything in one master sketch, or have it split up into multiple sketches.
Re: from technical drawing to cad
Fair…
Although with the given information, I don't think the tangent assumption is a big leap… A note on the drawing stating that would be helpful but in the absence of such a note and given the lack of any dimensioning on the center point of that 2-1/2" R, I think that tangency is implied (see, it's not an assumption anymore 😉)
Re: How to create this specific mate ?
Hey @eric_pascual, so when the grey part rotates, it in turn rotates the red part? The Tangent mate should be able to do this. It will need some helper shapes to get it working properly since there currently isn't a "Partial tangent" mate which would allow it to be tangent only when it's touching. Feel free to share a link to your document if you need assistance getting the tangent mate to work.
Re: can free users create teams with other free users?
Yes, but you have to share a doc (like @Ste_Wilson says) or folder to the team. Then it will appear under "teams" filter for other person. If you're just sharing with one person, avoid teams and share direct.
