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Re: Difficulty Lofting with Guides
Probably easiest to use fill surface and a couple of mirror features.

Re: How can I edit this imported part more efficiently?
@conorbyrne the easiest way to use the delete face on this is to do an inclusive box selection, drag your cursor from left to right when making the selection and a blue box will appear, it will select all faces within the blue box.
Share a link to your document if you are still having trouble.
Re: API - Folder Creation, Move Document Functionality
This is an old post, but for clarification for future users:
To actually move that document to the new folder, you will need to use another undocumented endpoint:
POST
: /api/globaltreenodes/folder/{:fid}
BODY:
{
"itemsToMove" : [ { "resourceType" : "document", "id" : <docid> } ] }
Re: making multiple parts within a design studio
David,
Going through that lesson myself, and I noticed that some step explinations are missing. So one has to do a bit of figuring out as to what steps are not being mentioned. Just a heads up for you.
Re: making multiple parts within a design studio
https://learn.onshape.com/courses/fundamentals-multi-part-part-studios
Re: making multiple parts within a design studio
Indeed, in Onshape each "body" is a part, and don't worry too much about the "planes"…
Think of a multi-part studio more like an "in context" design assembly in SolidWorks where the parts are drawn in their "correct" location relative to the origin.
Also you will soon find out (if you haven't already…) that the individual part planes and origin are NOT included in the assembly environment so they become less relevant.
Re: making multiple parts within a design studio
Thanks for the info.
One thing that I can mention, is that most features that create geoetry give the option if you want to create a new body or add to an existing body:
Custom Feature: Heat Set Insert (Threaded inserts for 3D Printed Parts)
Custom Feature: Heat Set Insert
I wanted to learn FeatureScript, so I created a new custom feature to place cavities for heat set inserts into 3d Printed parts quickly and easily. I have been really happy with it and have found that it really speeds up my designs, so I wanted to share it out!
Right now, it includes dimensions for 3 different brands of inserts: McMaster, CNC Kitchen, and Ktehloy on Amazon.
The featurescript creates a cavity that is the correct diameter for the insert selected from the drop down menu and the correct depth to allow the melted plastic to have somewhere to go when the insert melted in.
My preferred workflow is to use the normal Hole tool to make tapped holes and set the location of the heat set insert using mate connectors in the Heat Set Insert tool. Let me know if you want any features added to make it even better!
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