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Re: I would like a forum "for dummies"
Maybe a book instead? Have you seen the learn.onshape.com website yet? Good stuff
MDesign
Re: Where Used Without Where Used And Part Confusion
This helps a lot, thanks. I forgot that multipart studios existed. I will probably not be using them anytime soon considering what's happened here.
Many of our multipart studios appear to be dead projects, doodles. I can yank the erroneous part definitions from them and jsut worry about collapsing references in the true assemblies. I will start with screws. I will need a proper method of tabulating their properties. I can't find anything on this
The first step is getting our screws in order the hard way. My end goal is to have something like this in OnShape, but for screw parameters such as shaft diameter, shaft length, etc.
In Inventor, this is achieved by exporting a dimension parameter to an iProperty then mapping to a property in Vault. How is this done in OnShape?
Re: I would like a forum "for dummies"
I have been on onshape for just over two years now. I never learned cad 3d in my life. All I did was to follow several of the self paced courses and then started to do things. I am now designing model engines for 3d printing. Yes I am a machine engineer but all I ever learned cad wise was autocad light back in the 2D days, and that is decades ago.
Never did I have the feeling the onshape community, or the PROS, were explaining things overly difficult. In fact I found it very accessable, approachable and often instantly to the point.
Can you give us some examples? I cannot find you other post so please link to it?
I would advise you to follow the self paced courses which are free and very bitsize. Couple of short videos and then a test before you go to the next section that builds on the previous theme. Start with cad basics so you understand their way of terminology and concepts. Then go on to the sketches and after you understand the environment, go to the part building courses. By no means do you need to do all of them but these are kind of needed before you will get a feel of the onshape world. If you don't know where to find them go to the upper right of your screen and find the head with gears, this is the learning center.
Looking forward to your examples so we can try to do it again.
Re: I would like a forum "for dummies"
With Onshape’s forum, I don’t recall anyone ever taking a ‘forget you’ type of attitude. Especially towards those new to the forum. In fact, a lot of the time, long time users of the forum take time to welcome newbies. So, welcome to the forum.
I am of the opinion that a lot of the time, the reason questions may take awhile to get answered, is because those reading the original post, are possibly having a hard time understanding exactly what is being asked.
Other times, there may be some that are of the thought that the person asking the question would possibly be better off doing otherwise than what is being asked. So in a case like that, someone like me will wait for others to respond to the original post, then, at that time, I would offer up a response something like this —— ‘hey, you also MIGHT be interested in taking this approach …’
Of all the CAD forums I have ever participated in, this is the most professional and cordial of all. I say professional in that people don’t get petty as in other CAD forums I have participated in. Maybe it’s because there are a lot of engineers here.
I suggest you post your questions as clearly stated as possible, with hand sketches or the link to your document, and see what happens. There are a lot of very helpful participants here in this forum.
Re: bend face, or i dont know help
Without access to your document it will be hard to determine the cause of fragments. You will have to provide a link so that everyone can see what you did to get to the point you are.
MDesign
Re: Problem with Surface text Cut out function
Now I see my mistake! If i at first has a text heigth of 1 mm, I need too cut 1,5 mm to get a 0,5 mm cut in my surface
Thank you!
Re: I need this like yesterday. Surface creation by 3d snap
Yes, Fill has had the ability to add guides (points or curves) all along. However it is completely different code/algorithm than the other one mentioned earlier in this thread.
Re: Part name won't change (to include expression variables) tried multiple Featurescripts
This is probably one of my biggest frustrations with FeatureScript. Any property (name, appearance, etc) that has been set by the user cannot be overridden by a featurescript. I'd really like to just set an option in "setProperty" for like "override" or something that can force it. I end up in some workflows where you just can't do anything about it.
The only way to fix it is to go into the part → properties → reset all.
The other way is to pattern the input body and delete the original - thus creating a new part. Which 9 out of 10 times is not really an acceptable workflow.
Re: Time Log for Documents
Hey, I added a feature to the FTC Insert Tool Onshape app accomplish this. The video details how to quickly see the hours on any Onshape document. Please note that these are estimates based on how many and how often changes are made on the document and do not necessarily include time spent reviewing the model without making changes. If you were to charge money based on, I would recommend explaining how this is estimated to your client. Also note that you may have to edit the spreadsheet to account for more than 100 days.
Can we please get standard ctrl/shift+click to select/deselect for marquee selection
As it stands, there is currently no way to easily add or remove items from a selection made using a marquee. It is near impossible to visually select just the items you want.
If I'm missing something, but if not, this would be a hugely timesaving feature.