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Re: The one thing I HATE about OnShape.
I've run Onshape perfectly fine using my phone as an internet hotspot.
Re: The one thing I HATE about OnShape.
Looks like I can hotspot off my wife's mobile plan as a temp measure for a nice add on fee. Learning way more about mobile data than I want to.
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Re: Help duplicating a sketch on another plane
Also for future reference, the box should have been drawn centered perfectly about the Front and Right plane, rather than the corner of the box like it is now. This allows you to use the default planes for symetrical constraints within sketcher, and for mirroring features outside of sketcher. It's a fundamental CAD concept and comes in super handy.
Re: Why is inserting a view of a configured assembly instance into a drawing not possible?
Hi StephenG,
If you have set up configurations, you should get an insert view dialogue like this. Could you share what you see?
Re: Easy method for exporting sheet metal flat pattern to STEP file?
Are you cutting the flat patterns yourself? On a laser machine? DXF is what is mostly used for flat patterns in industry, not STEP. And any laser/waterjet machine will accept dxf. If you are instead sending the parts to a sheetmetal vendor, then you would send them a STEP of the fully bent part.
Re: How to Reference Individual Sketch Entities
Rectangles aren't a single body, they are actually just 4 line segments that are constrainted.
So FeatureScript is creating 4 bodies with id "sketchsegmentid+left/right/top/bottom". So you need to reference each rectangle side individually.
Here is an example.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a1f40918d4d33ea9daed6320/w/9e622d0c612befc74430a282/e/6d1aae827bc128ec1296c8fe
Re: Hole tool not following direction of Mate Connector or an actual Plane as start plane, seems broken.
The "start from" selection does not define the direction, the selection in the first box does.
If you use a sketch point the direction will always be normal to the sketch plane. Instead of using the sketch point directly, just use a mate connector centered on your sketch point and re-orient it as needed.
In this example you are really complicating things, all you need to do is select a mate connector on the end of the line segment from sketch2, you don't need anything else!
Re: Optics: Custom Feature
Fair enough about keeping things simple and this not being a "full" analysis tool. However it's really not that far off!
You've got the reflection and refraction covered and methods to shoot a bunch of rays through the geometry and that's really the bulk of it!
While understand there is no concept of "intensity" of a ray in this model, my thought would be that the density of rays could be a good proxy for that.
So instead of a cone with evenly distributed rays a lambertian distribution would have fewer and fewer rays at larger angles.
Re: Boolean operation results in non-manifold body
No Boolean is needed when no voids are left in play. You have drawn 2 unnecessary lines that are leaving a void and are making a non manifold condition during the extrude. and cannot Boolean together.
