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Re: Still Having Loft Issues....

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/113697#Comment_113697

Thats an interesting idea i hadnt even considered that, Ill give it a try and report back. Thanks

jared_ja

Re: Why is the ability to use and mate to the planes used in part construction missing in Assemblies?

More info: So you are in an assembly and you "Turn Section View On". The pop up is... wait for it..." Select a Plane, Planar Face or Mate Connector".

Where are the planes in Assemblies? Why are they NOT there? Why can't we use them along with all of the Mate Connectors? Imagine the beauty of that scenario! This is a very serious need for this software! Let us not evade the question!

rick_gibson_dee

Re: Why is the ability to use and mate to the planes used in part construction missing in Assemblies?

I vote to introduce plane options in Onshape assemblies. Engineers work with datum planes, which are missing in Onshape. Where to find a tutorial to show what has replaced using datum planes? I suggest to at least provide the option for designers to use planes in assemblies.

Gerard_at_Rex

Why is the ability to use and mate to the planes used in part construction missing in Assemblies?

Machines from the small to the gigantic use planes for assembly. "The Datum Reference Frame / Planes" Yet in Onshape there are no planes that are usable for mating in Assemblies. You would think that the Assembly would have planes similar to a Part Studio. You would think that the construction planes used in a Part Studio would be able to be used in an Assembly. Is this an oversight or is there some new paradigm that is hidden, or is this functionality going to shortly appear?

Thanks! I switched back to Freemium from Pro because of this deficiency.

rick_gibson_dee

Re: the diameter symbol remains even if it has been changed. please fix it

That looks like a threaded hole. Why not use the hole=thread call out?

glen_dewsbury

Re: Simulation

You can't. It's Professional or Enterprise only.

https://www.onshape.com/en/pricing#comparisontable

S1mon

Re: Render Studio Custom Appearances

I agree, it has come a long way! It's feeling more and more Onshape. They also really increased the performance so that it's pretty user friendly now.

There are still a few things like this that make it painful to use. I should probably go make some IR's for these. Don't really want to bombard the Onshape team with theses atm, but may upload them soon.

Option to turn off live render preview so that it doesn't block out everything while moving around. Or perhaps don't live render it until the camera has stopped moving for 3 seconds. I can't move things around with the block out view anyways so we might as well be able to just turn it off.
Having to version your document then go and update render studio like it's a different document is a huge pain. Needs to behave similarly to derive from the same document so that the references are live.
Saving your own library of appearances. This would save quite a bit of time since I have a handful of common custom appearances that I like to use.
Creating custom textures. I expect just drag and drop bitmap, normal, roughness, metalic. But it is much more difficult. I still haven't been able to make a custom texture even though I've been given instructions directly from Onshape multiple times.
Environment: The background is still confusing, now there are two places to set the background? This should be simplified into one large button called "Environment".
- Environment settings that might be nice so that we know what is changing:
  - "Use lighting from environment"
  - "Use custom lighting"
  - "Override background"
  - etc…

MichaelPascoe

Re: why doesnt this work? (never mind, had a bad bearing)

Way down at the bottom of this page:
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/simulation.htm

"Composite parts are not currently supported in Onshape Simulation."

Matt_Shields

Sweep remove on 3D surface - not working properly w/o "keep profile orientation"

I'm trying to create a ball joint slot that is swept along the line in 3D space. However, it does not work when I want the orientation to follow the curve.
This is an example of a rectangular slot working fine.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/we/pqm3kzvbc0tu.png

Now, when trying to do the same thing along a curve that is projected onto a surface, it only works if I check "Keep profile orientation"

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/wp/f93ccm3dshn3.png

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/d3/2ahg1j8jxct9.png

Without keeping the orientation, it won't work for my needs. As seen if I "add" a new part, instead of remove.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/5m/5uvg6jyitarf.png

Please let me know what I'm doing wrong, of it is not possible to use this sweep function along 3D surfaces

jacob_sheffield

Re: Slide linkage by CADemist linkage pin shearing

You have to give us the link here…
Sharing with support shares with Onshape tech support (needed when creating a support ticket), not the forums.

eric_pesty