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Re: Object floating above the plane.
Thank you for the reply. I saved the workspace to make a change, and it dropped down by itself. When I opened the original, it had dropped down also. Weird. Maybe I 'was' seeing things.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 19th, 2025
Folders and nested folders is a legacy from The early days of Microsoft window's. It makes no sense in a database driven Onshape.
A better way to sort documents would be using tags and maybe nested tags like a table of contents.
always look at the end product of our design work the spare part catalog
Ex Tesla truck , if you put all assemblies and sub-assemblies in folders it would be a gigantic tree usually 10-12 levels
Referring to my discussion "name and part number convention" there must be be a smarter way of doing it. No folders
Re: Is it possible to design 3rd part plugins?
@thales_maia : You can develop apps to work with Onshape. Documentation is here : https://onshape-public.github.io/docs/app-dev/
Re: how to import stl files
Onshape now has native import of mesh files! You can import them like any other geometry from the either documents page or from within a document (help page).
Check out this video for more information about how to work with meshes in Onshape:
Re: Unable to correctly model motion of a universal joint ?? What ??? What is wrong here?
The kinematics will work out fine if you don't overconstrain it. In my edit here I have unfixed the light blue block and given it a cylindrical mate to origin. The end of the dark blue free shaft is a ball mate (to a position off-vertical just for a better demo). I've used the non-planar spider setup. Note that the light blue shaft needs to have a bit of translational DOF (hence the cylindrical mate.)
Re: Object floating above the plane.
it may be an optical illusion. if you turn to look at the side you can see it's still flat on top of the top plane:
