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Re: Object floating above the plane.
Thank you for the reply. I saved the workspace to make a change, and it dropped down by itself. When I opened the original, it had dropped down also. Weird. Maybe I 'was' seeing things.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 19th, 2025
Folders and nested folders is a legacy from The early days of Microsoft window's. It makes no sense in a database driven Onshape.
A better way to sort documents would be using tags and maybe nested tags like a table of contents.
always look at the end product of our design work the spare part catalog
Ex Tesla truck , if you put all assemblies and sub-assemblies in folders it would be a gigantic tree usually 10-12 levels
Referring to my discussion "name and part number convention" there must be be a smarter way of doing it. No folders
Re: Is it possible to design 3rd part plugins?
@thales_maia : You can develop apps to work with Onshape. Documentation is here : https://onshape-public.github.io/docs/app-dev/
Re: how to import stl files
Onshape now has native import of mesh files! You can import them like any other geometry from the either documents page or from within a document (help page).
Check out this video for more information about how to work with meshes in Onshape:
Re: Unable to correctly model motion of a universal joint ?? What ??? What is wrong here?
The kinematics will work out fine if you don't overconstrain it. In my edit here I have unfixed the light blue block and given it a cylindrical mate to origin. The end of the dark blue free shaft is a ball mate (to a position off-vertical just for a better demo). I've used the non-planar spider setup. Note that the light blue shaft needs to have a bit of translational DOF (hence the cylindrical mate.)
