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Re: BEND NOTES ANGLE
I can't say I've ever seen anyone use that convention before; The sheet starts out flat, and you bend it through 45° - hence bend it up or down 45°.
That said I will often put a note on my drawings along the lines of: "Flat pattern dimensions for reference only, final dimensions to be as per folded views". Because the flat dimensions in my case are always theoretical and not from a tested flat pattern, I can't be certain they'll be right. I only care that it ends up in the form I need, not how it starts out or necessarily how that form is achieved; particularly if bend radii aren't matched to the model.
It should encourage whoever's making it to verify their understanding will get them whatever outcome you're looking for rather than blindly following bend notes.
Re: Is ONSHAPE a true replacement for traditional CAD?
@Jerry_Schulz You'll need to be a bit more specific. There are certainly things that threw me for a loop as I was learning Onshape, but I would not go back to Solidworks or Creo without a really good reason at this point. I've been doing parametric CAD for 30+ years.

Re: Fillets on internal corners
You can use evEdgeConvexity for the edges, You are interested in concave edges.

Re: Movement by contact
As noted above, Onshape does not do collision/contact detection. But you can fake it. The best example is Neil Cooke's latest FeatureScript magic.
It makes a timeline to build complex animations.
Re: Why do sketches not paste in to the same cords when copied?
Re: Why do sketches not paste in to the same cords when copied?
Can this behavior be changed? I have been annoyed by this "feature" as well to the point of wondering what's the point of pasting sketches. Seems like the default should place the sketch exactly to the same relation to the origin on the new sketch plane as from the the sketch plane it was copied.bradley_sauln said:@Tony_C_ Some additional notes from my digging:When you paste into a sketch that isn't active, the pasted entities get roughly centered on the origin. This is difficult to do that since the 2D reference to the origin doesn't carry through.When you paste into an active sketch, they go roughly where your mouse is.
Re: AI Assist for PDF management
You can also trace with Inkscape.
When making your pdf, just use the "find and replace" option in your pdf editor to replace your part numbers with hyperlinks to your Onshape model or drawing.
Re: ARM64 Support - Snapdragon X Elite
Every Onshape developer is running an ARM laptop. @NeilCooke is right. If you have a browser that works, Onshape will too.