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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.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8afc165187d023c4d83554ff/w/2feeaddcd74f8bc3776b99d7/e/0852c1a1f126a80964dad483

It makes a timeline to build complex animations.

Matt_Shields

Re: Why do sketches not paste in to the same cords when copied?

Agreed with Michael. Part of the reason for copying/pasting things is to align them. And since there's no simple and obvious way to align things, if you paste in the same place as the original, at least you can then use the transform tool to move the pasted thing along one axis, so it stays aligned in the other axes. As a new user, it strikes me as very odd that this simple method has not been used. Same with no simple alignment tools.

jaydenlawson

Re: Why do sketches not paste in to the same cords when 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.

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.

michael_watson

Re: Connecting to wrong Onshape server

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hxe0gotxQY

S1mon

Re: AI Assist for PDF management

You can also trace with Inkscape.

When making your pdf, just use the "find and replace" option in your pdf editor to replace your part numbers with hyperlinks to your Onshape model or drawing.