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Emphasis on SketchUp's lack of emphasis on manufacturing. I work in an industry where SketchUp is every designer's favorite tool and it's torture because I need to redraw everything they send me to make it manufacturable. It's a cool tool, unless your goal is to make anything.

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@marco_rapa what is your end goal?

Onshape is a feature-based parametric solid modeler with constraints, assemblies, and version-controlled cloud collaboration with customizable tools.

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SketchUp is a surface-based polygonal modeler optimized for direct manipulation of meshes with less emphasis on parametric relationships or manufacturing.

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Sketchup is for a different purpose. Apples and Pears.

Honestly, for a part like this, I'd just redraw the whole thing. There's not much to preserve. If you feel compelled, you can set up measured variables based on the original design and then use those in your own sketch. Using the original sketch and then deleting the constraints means 1. a lot of geometry and 2. totally unconstrained entities.

Draw one segment, extrude, do a part pattern. More robust that way.

This is my very first venture with Onshape configurations (but prev exp in SW). I want to take a large assembly of parts and make multiple exploded assembly drawings, without making real subassemblies. In other words, I hide one group of parts and explode it this way for one drawing, then swap what is hidden vs shown, explode a from a different angle to make a different drawing, etc. I'm not changing any part configurations, just hiding and showing and exploding parts for different drawings. How do I make this simple?