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Re: How to mate parts/assemblies to the origin

Thanks for all the feedback so far, honestly appreciating it.

But I have to say, I don't understand it... It's one assembly that should be placed at the origin. I should not need to fix some parts, make mate connectors to others etc. just to place it on the origin? I mean it doesn't get more basic than that, or does it?

And the origins of the subassemblies as well as the mate connectors defined in them are not visible in the top assembly anyhow, so I can't use them to place anything even if I wanted to.

Also, yes, place it there and never move it again. But designs are often iterative. What If I decide to move it to try something out. And then I want to move it back to the origin, but don't remember how far it was moved? Then I need to delete it and place it again? Guess that would be catastrophic for any parts having references on that part/assembly.

roy_roffler

Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 19th, 2024

Sweet! Dark Mode! (the featurestudio looks nice too, would like a dimmer sheet of paper in drawings, not black as everything else is)
Clear Missing References!
Mouse over for formula (would be nice to have always shown)
Fixed that sketch constraint annoyance!

The icons look much better than what I could ever get from darkreader or that other paid for one.
Will now have to go through some custom feature icons and make them more compatible with darkmode now