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new Featurescript: Statics Solver

I needed to calculate the force on a cable for a robot, so I decided to do it the hard way, but writing a FS to do it.

Link: Statics Solver

Pick your force locations (where they touch the object, flip the direction as desired. Outputs curves that are named and scaled to the force magnitude..

Can only do up to 3 unknowns, due to math.

Need to add checks for planar, and also make it work for any plane, currently hard-coded for YZ

joshtargo

Re: oploft connections

Using arcs seems to work:

Thank you again for the suggestion.

I won't mark this as answered just yet as I'm hoping we can crack connections!

graham_lock

Where are the tutorial videos?

I've spent nearly an hour trying to locate tutorial videos, nope, cant find them…..

Any links?

Thanks

michael_fitzpatrick053

Re: Where are the tutorial videos?

Simon is correct. In particular, check out the Self-Paced Courses.

Matt_Shields

Re: Where are the tutorial videos?

Click the little head with gears for brains.

MDesign

Re: How can i make 3 animate mate at time in a assembly? how can i make it?

If all it is is making them all turn the same way at the same time, the Gear relation is your tool as @GWS50 said. If you just want to check that the extremes of motion don't collide with anything as you work, Named Positions is probably an easier way to go. Just set them up once and click through them to make sure it's working. Onshape isn't currently made for complex animations, but if you are really determined, you can get it to do what you want using some workarounds which are well demonstrated by @john_mcclary in a video here.

EvanReese

Re: How do I cut this part?

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/25809/how-do-i-cut-this-part

Extend the two lines in the sketch beyond the part surfaces. Extrude just those two lines into a surface that passes completely through the part on both sides and use the slice feature to split it in half.

MDesign

Re: Engineering Change Notices / New Part Introductions & OnShape

There is a real gap for SME and startup companies indeed. What probably most smaller businesses need is a kind of PDM+
Or a PLM- kind of an Arena without the need of Onshape enterprise and expensive PLM functionality. Just managing BOMs and ECO/ECN with also non CAD items. Few years ago Onshape made a sneek peak how a solution like this could be like. But then came ARENA and the concept was ditched.

Urs_Egger_REACT

Re: How do I update the parts in a render studio if I've made changes to my design?

Thanks so much @NeilCooke! Had a hard time finding it. Another quick rendering question. When I add an environment I've found it's scale doesn't match my intent. For example I'm trying to render a large (2 meter) product into an outdoor scene but the environment is opening as if it's expecting a 200mm product. When I zoom, Onshape is scaling my product, not the environment so to get the two to match I've zoomed in so close much of my product is off the screen. Is there a way to scale the environment as opposed to the geometry in the scene??

dave_franchino