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Re: Best Practices for Optimizing Designs for 3D Printing in Onshape
- I design pretty much all my parts to not require supports. Makes my life a lot easier. That means try to limit overhangs to less than 45 degrees. Small horizontal holes can be printed without doing anything special, in my experience.
- Thin sections in a horizontal direction (parallel to the layers) make for fragile prints.
- If you design a hole to the exact diameter of a bolt, you can just screw it in and it'll make its own threads (e.g., 5mm for M5). Add 0.4mm for a hole that won't interfere with the bolt.
- I have a (so far unpublished, buyer beware) custom feature that basically makes an up-to-with-offset counterbore. Good for fastening prints to things when I know what bolts I have and how much I want them to protrude (e.g., protrude 6mm, bolt is 10mm, so offset should be 4mm).
- Hollowing out your part to save material will probably not save you material and may make the part weaker. Judicious use of the Lighten feature, on the other hand, may add structural integrity.
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Re: Unit conversion
Re: derived feature in part studio, hiding derived sketches
Your document hasn't been updated lately.
Trash the document and then recover from trash. It will put up a dialog about updating next time you open. Once updated it will behave as S1mon says.
Re: Extruding a QR code
Never mind. I was not using all the options correction. Thanks! This is cool.
Re: Best Way to Mirror Parts In Place (Without Creating New Parts)
I ran into this exact need and developed Lefty Flip as a custom feature to do exactly what you're asking. It does work as a negative bounds scale transform under the hood and maintains all part and face identities as you're expecting. There's a little bit of sheet metal magic in there too.
New Custom Feature: 8020 "3030" Profile Converter
A custom feature to bulk convert 30x30mm prismatic bodies (works with with mitered ends) into 8020 "3030" profile aluminum extrusion.
future enhancements will obviously be the ability to convert to other profiles, possibly automatically.
can anyone tell me where the official Onshape 8020 library document is?
Re: Custom Post Processors
I'm currently on the free plan, so no access to support tickets from what I can see. I'm considering an upgrade to the Pro plan if the machines I have are supported - how can I suggests machines to the CAM Studio folks?
Re: Custom Post Processors
We are waiting for this feature too. We have a Mecanumeric CNC machine, so we have to export our Onshape CAD designs and switch to Fusion 360 every time we want to produce a part since it is not in the default list of supported machines… I opened a ticket though (ticket: #387081), I hope my request can be treated promptly. Cheers
Re: Custom Post Processors
Please report back here on the help you receive about this. Perhaps Onshape CAM Studio is supported better than the traffic on the forum would suggest.