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Re: Connecting to wrong Onshape server
Thanks to all that replied. I checked my router's configuration, and the DNS name server was set to my new ISP default of 202.142.142.142. I did a few searches, and it all comes back to Aussie Broadband (my ISP), registered in Victoria Australia (where I am), but I don't know enough about DNS fto be able to do any more digging. I swapped the name servers over to google (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4), and after a reboot, that fixed the problem! My latency is back down to 22ms.
Thanks very much once again for the very speedy and very helpful replies.
Re: How do you create a sphere?
Here's an example: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f46a38416ac2855162ef7bed/w/ee19045eebb62fb7898e525d/e/9060850a21912e090e6916e9
Re: AI Assist for PDF management
I have recently tried to discuss the nonlinearity in specific heat capacity of water with a selection of AI systems. They all failed. Most common cause of failure: Their inability to properly recognize and convert units and reference systems. Some outright lied to me. Confronted with the fact, they produced a truckload of excuses and then lied again. I don't trust them for this kinda work. Instead of using AI to convert inches to centimeters, we should finally do away with the imperial unit system altogether. That'd be much more efficient than burning large amounts of fuel to power large server farms to run unreliable AI to solve completely obsolete problems. Going down that path, we're shooting our foot. Let's use AI to do something meaningful instead.
Re: Is ONSHAPE a true replacement for traditional CAD?
3dcad
Re: BEND NOTES ANGLE
I can't say I've ever seen anyone use that convention before; The sheet starts out flat, and you bend it through 45° - hence bend it up or down 45°.
That said I will often put a note on my drawings along the lines of: "Flat pattern dimensions for reference only, final dimensions to be as per folded views". Because the flat dimensions in my case are always theoretical and not from a tested flat pattern, I can't be certain they'll be right. I only care that it ends up in the form I need, not how it starts out or necessarily how that form is achieved; particularly if bend radii aren't matched to the model.
It should encourage whoever's making it to verify their understanding will get them whatever outcome you're looking for rather than blindly following bend notes.
Re: Is ONSHAPE a true replacement for traditional CAD?
@Jerry_Schulz You'll need to be a bit more specific. There are certainly things that threw me for a loop as I was learning Onshape, but I would not go back to Solidworks or Creo without a really good reason at this point. I've been doing parametric CAD for 30+ years.
S1mon
Re: Fillets on internal corners
You can use evEdgeConvexity for the edges, You are interested in concave edges.
lana
Re: Movement by contact
As noted above, Onshape does not do collision/contact detection. But you can fake it. The best example is Neil Cooke's latest FeatureScript magic.
It makes a timeline to build complex animations.
Re: Why do sketches not paste in to the same cords when copied?
Re: Why do sketches not paste in to the same cords when copied?
Can this behavior be changed? I have been annoyed by this "feature" as well to the point of wondering what's the point of pasting sketches. Seems like the default should place the sketch exactly to the same relation to the origin on the new sketch plane as from the the sketch plane it was copied.bradley_sauln said:@Tony_C_ Some additional notes from my digging:When you paste into a sketch that isn't active, the pasted entities get roughly centered on the origin. This is difficult to do that since the 2D reference to the origin doesn't carry through.When you paste into an active sketch, they go roughly where your mouse is.
