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Re: New forum layout: any way to reduce the wasted space?
@gregory_iii all new users are manually moderated so it can take time for comments to appear. It also might surprise you that we, as a CAD software developer, are not experts in forum software and use a third party provider (Vanilla forums), so if they break it, we report it, they fix it (mostly).
Re: Step Files Not Translating
your just importing a zip file. extract the step file and import that.
MDesign
Re: convert solid part to surface body?
If you can't, the original solid was on the cusp of failure and you're lucky.
If you're using feature script, it should match up with the user interface and enclose. You can always look at the enclose command and see how onshape did it.
billy2
Re: Custom Feature: Cable/Wire Routing
Changelog for release 1.195.2
⭐ Fixed an issue where other wire errors cover the minimum bend radius violation notice.
While editing a wire, the minimum bend radius notice now takes priority.
Re: Is there a less clunky way to do embedded text for 3D printing?
There are mostly bad ways to do this, unfortunately. Text is tricky to work with. For example, you are using a non-stencil font, which means the 'holes' in numbers like 8 and 6 and 0 are either left floating OR (as you have done) all connected to the base. But now that means the letters have to be printed and laid in from the 'front' of the workpiece.
Here's a way that shows how this could work. There are some design changes and some tool changes:
1. Dont make that whole thick block in one go. Make it thin so the text doesnt have to be very tall.
2. Switch to a stencil font. Onshape has one. This makes all the holes in numbers like 6 and 8 and 0 connected to the main body.
3. Use my "Text" feature (described in the forums, aka Text Path). All that text layout can be one sketch and one feature.
4. You can use autoboolean (which works on features and parts, very handy) or just regular boolean to cut out the text lettering from the main body. I use autoboolean from @GregBrown
5. Print. If you have a 2-color printer this will likely just work as-is but if you need to print two separate bodies and then assemble, that'll be tricky.
6. Add an additional standoff part if needed to get it back to the original height (probably important given that you are making an auto-focus gauge).
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/d5d0a3cea54df719fb9b488c/w/fb96618b4a4fcfd6507de7a8/e/68248ee5990f73051e3ca9d7
jnewth
Re: My best feature yet 😱
By procedurally generating instruments for my kids with Pan Pipe™, I can force my wife and myself to wear headphones at all times. Not only that, my dogs have stopped barking at the mailman because they hide under the bed all day. Thanks Pan Pipe™!
