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Re: 3D Connexion SpaceMouse - Not working

Not sure why, but every so often I need to restart the 3dxNLServer to get mine working with Onshape again. To do that I

hit "command+space" to bring up the spotlight search on my Mac.
Type "3dx" which autocompletes to 3dxNLServer
Hit "return" to restart it
In Onshape I use "shift+r" to hard refresh the page.

Kind of annoying, but It also goes really quick.

If that fails a full computer restart seems to help.

EvanReese

Re: I absolutely love Onshape!

Interesting opposing opinion to the I can't take it anymore thread. LOL

Similar story here. What Architectural cad do you or have you used? and which one(s) are crashing?

MDesign

Re: I absolutely love Onshape!

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/117123#Comment_117123

I would say that you're correct and cabinets can just be done with some simple sketches. We've been using 2D for almost 30 years. But we switched to Onshape for a number of reasons, I can highlight a few here.

3D, while not necessary for cabinets, is still helpful when dealing with mass customization. Our product is engineered to order and we work with some of the top design firms in the country. Being able to show them their design in 3D is helpful in building out that design. It's also helpful for the manufacturing floor, giving them more ways to see details they potentially never worked on before.
FS helps make 3D make sense. One of the reasons we never swapped over to something like SolidWorks was because building a cabinet in 3D takes way longer than in 2D, with the only ROI being the above point, which wasn't enough bang for buck. By using templates and custom features, we can whip up a 3D kitchen referencing all of our specifications very quickly. In addition, we've built a lot of metadata into our custom features that allow us to automatically generate real time cutlists of our models. It cannot be stressed enough that without getting our parts from the model, 3D wouldn't make sense for us.
3D + FS has reduced on boarding. We are able to bring on new engineers about 3x faster because they now have a way to interact with our specifications, and we have custom features that build our cabinets and add detail. These custom features have business rules built into them that remove the amount of tribal knowledge needed that the cabinet industry is quite notorious for.

These are just a couple reasons, but I would say if we did just swap to Onshape without making these custom workflows and custom features, it would have been difficult to justify doing 3D at all. For many cabinet shops, drawings are just pretty pictures and the carpenter is the artist. We are trying to move some of the artistry to the digital world and we've done that pretty successfully.

chadstoltzfus

Re: Announcing The Onsherpa

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/117094#Comment_117094

Yep! Now I have an actual answer when people ask where they can find my features

EvanReese

Re: Home projects show and tell

Thanks for sharing them! I love this idea as a general thread. That french cleat (or whatever you'd call that) on the window sill pot is great

EvanReese

Re: Announcing The Onsherpa

Cool cool cool! also - the list of all your FS with gif animations: super nice! https://www.theonsherpa.com/custom-features

roman_jurt190

Re: How to turn these 3 sketches into a solid?

I checked your document and saw the picture of the joystick you are trying to model in the other tab. I don't believe you can get there with the approach you are trying. You probably have to model it with curves and surfaces. But they would not be 3 sketches like you have now. Each curve would represent the tangent line of an arc in the finished model, or where two surfaces meet.

Another approach… the joystick does not seem too organic… you may be able to "fake it" with traditional modeling. The center portion looks like a flat rectangle. The grip portions could be a sweep.

Fair warning, its difficult to model this joystick.

These 3 courses, starting with the curves course, will help you if you go the surfacing route: