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2025 Onshape Learning Projects Refresh – New Videos, Workflows, and Design Intent Lessons
I'm excited to announce that I've updated all Onshape Learning Projects in preparation for the upcoming school year. Here’s what you can expect from the new content for each project:
- Mastering the reading of engineering drawings
- Understanding and implementing design intent
- Modeling parts and assemblies using Onshape
- Ensuring accuracy through mass properties analysis
- Making revisions and verifying design intent
Each project adheres to a consistent workflow and includes both bottom-up and top-down modeling approaches. These enhancements are crafted to help students confidently and swiftly get up to speed with Onshape. A brand-new website makes accessing everything a breeze, making it ideal for both teachers and independent learners.
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Re: part detection
A couple of planar mates will close the jig, but I think what you're asking about is collision detection and no, Onshape doesn't do that.
Re: How do I create this?! (framing)
I highly prefer to do as much as possible without planes. They tend to clutter up the view and I spend way too much time turning them on and off or accidentally selecting them. I try to only use them when I repeatedly need a plane to sketch on and/or I can't get the reference I need with a mate connector (e.g. you can't define a MC with three points). I would recommend using variables to capture things like "frame height" instead of a plane with an offset value.
S1mon
Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025
I literally said "finally!" on every dot point in the configurations updates. TYSM
Larkin
Re: How to 'bend' an extrusion around a curve
I have been working on geometry distortion tools, but alas there's a WoW patch dropping next week so development has really slowed down.
Re: support controlling ratios of sketch dimensions/measures
I created this improvement request a while ago. I think it would help, at least where there are ratios involved:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/19025/ratio-dimensions-in-sketcher-and-elsewhere
S1mon