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Re: EDITING TOOLS IN ONSHAPE DRAWINGS

Thanks guys. Very helpful.

While waiting for replies, I defaulted to doing up the sketches in Draftsight and importing the dwg into Onshape.

Unfortunate that there is no really useful sketch editing toolset in Onshape drawings.

Ed_designeng

Re: Vehicle coordinate system

I would soooo extremely support this improvement!

@Ste_Wilson for me it's just a matter of how you interact with the product. If it's something like a phone that you hold or look at the "front" faces you and the "right" is on your right, just like the view cube. When you're doing a car (or bicycle) the "right" side should be the side that's on your right when you are riding, which is currently labeled "left" on the view cube. It is especially important when collaborating, because changing the orientation of a model is next to impossible later in the design process, and I've worked on more than one project where things had confusing names and conversations because of this. Is it "left bracket" or "right bracket"? The cube says left and the object itself says right. Hilarity ensues.

EvanReese

Re: Drawing wont extrude, even though it is a closed loop.

There are two ways to find out where the sketch needs fixing.

First, the profile inspector:

Open the sketch for editing.
Click the "Sketch diagnostics tools" button

3. Click the "profile inspector" button

From there it will highlight the loose ends of the sketch:

As @robert_scott_jr_ said: It will turn grey when the sketch is closed. Then it can be extruded.

I find that a little clicky so I prefer to use my custom feature "Find open profiles":

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/56312b17cfbdb21d92904aee/v/03526648dfe34cea631aaf7a/e/70729571ff9f38e6cb456a90

This shows the two gaps that the profile inspector finds but it also reveals a few other oddball bits of the sketch that the profile inspector doesn't report (which are dangling ends that do not prevent the sketch from closing). Maybe useful, maybe not.