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New Video - Project Topologies: Planning Onshape Models

I made a video detailing the document strategy (one or multiple) and the flow of data through part studios to create robust models. It's not cool modeling tricks, but is a super important topic that you need to think through to have a good time modeling anything of meaningful complexity in Onshape, especially as part of a team.

https://youtu.be/pIjq6S8TUME

EvanReese

Re: Repeating hinge

Welcome to the club!

If you intend on using Onshape more than once a week, I recommend going through the learning pathways.
You will be so efficient by the end of them, saving years of trial and error.

Learning Pathways

MichaelPascoe

Re: STEP BY STEP SHEET METAL

In some regions of Brazil, we have a huge shortage of machinery, processes, and labor. Some companies operate in a very simple manner, and a student highlighted this need, as in his company, all sheet metal process drawings are created this way, not simply the sheet metal blank. In Solidworks and Autodesk Inventor, this type of process can be easily created with the help of bending and unfolding tools, and I'm trying to replicate it in Onshape. This would give us another user of the software. However, I will try to create configurations with varying angles. As soon as I complete the example, I'll send it to you.

marcos_fenerichi

Re: STEP BY STEP SHEET METAL

Hey @marcos_fenerichi,

You could design your finished profile and the use configurations to suppress each consecutive step and show the previous steps.

Hope this helps. Cheers

David_YL_Nguyen

Re: STEP BY STEP SHEET METAL

You could also export the flat pattern of your finished part as DXF. Create a new Part Studio, insert the DXF in a sketch, Sheet metal THICKEN and then use the bend feature to recreate it again, step by step. Sounds a bit tedious though as you are essentially doing the work twice.

What is your use case here?

David_YL_Nguyen

Re: Document share button is missing

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/119654#Comment_119654

Indeed, that was the culprit, specifically cosmetic filtering:

vanowm

Re: Document share button is missing

@NeilCooke it's uBlock Origin Lite. Thanks for clearing that up.

Derek_Van_Allen_BD

Re: Wanted: Sane API that Corresponds to Interface Actions

@asher_haig , And why can't we name sketches? : Can you let us know what you tried? You should be able to set the name of the sketch at creation see this example : https://onshape-public.github.io/docs/api-adv/featureaccess/#create-a-sketch-via-querystring or if you want to update the name of a sketch (or any other feature) see this example : https://onshape-public.github.io/docs/api-adv/featureaccess/#update-a-feature

Paul_J_Premakumar

Keeping track of and organizing custom features

Almost every time I read this forum I get aware of some nice custom feature I find useful. That is in fact a great thing! I don't use every custom feature every day, of course, but I like to keep the ones I already used or tried and found useful at hand. I might just collect more than I actually need, just because I fear I'll never find them again, should I actually need them one day.

So, my growing collection of custom features gets kind of confusing.

I noticed, that recently, the lot of them migrated from a pulldown menu into the toolbar, where I can now activate the customize toolbar mode to move them around and at least put all related to e.g. gears together in one place and all related to sketching in another and so on. That's quite some improvement, even if there are no custom separators.

There are a few thing I still miss, though:

Create folders that would maybe result in a dropdown. I could have a "Gears" folder with planetary gears feature and the spur gear feature living together in the pulldown.
Have links next to or behind the menu item to display the documentations, if available.
A place where I can find all the exsiting custom features in an overview, search them in a targeted manner and get a how-to and maybe a sample.

Also, I believe it might be worth considering the integration of the custom features into the factory toolbar. Why would't e.g. the threads lab custom feature live in a close relationship with the factory thread tool and be accessible via a pulldown? The custom features could still be made distinguishable from the factory ones graphically.

martin_kopplow

Wanted: Sane API that Corresponds to Interface Actions

Why is this not an automatic assumed given?

Why is the norm for writing OnShape code that we are expected to re-implement the features already provided by the app but not provided to the API?

Why can't we construct sketches by describing their constraints, the same way we would in the app?

Why aren't products of code accessible as first-class objects?

It's offensive how silly the API is. Why isn't there a real API that works the intelligent way the app works?

AsherAtSignalDesign