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Re: I want to copy this sweep to the other "islands"
A general approach with something like this is make your island as a "new" part, not an "add" when you make its initial extrude. Then any features that belong to the island, such as the ogee edge, or anything else, gets done as an "add" to the island only, not to the base.
When you have the island as far as you can take it, do a circular part pattern of the island, and select the "add" option within the part pattern to union the islands to the base.
Re: How to join/merge 2 faces of 2 different objects?
You can extent the handle sweep path below the surface of the lid or as in this example use replace face.
Re: How to join/merge 2 faces of 2 different objects?
It worked. I ended up using replace face and now everything is working as intended. Thank you!
Re: Let's solve the speed issue
Hi @dustin_144. Thanks for reaching out.
I can definitely see the one of the events you are talking about in our logs (18:54 UTC). Our servers are reporting that the client stopped responding and so we closed the connection. You are right: A stable internet connection is required for Onshape to work. Looking at the logs on our servers, I'm not seeing any other issues at that time.
I'm happy to see you have been using us since 2018. Part of the benefits of the pro discovery program is that you have access to our world-class support team. Open a support ticket and we can dig in a bit more to see if there are any patterns around what you ran into. It also gives you the ability to try Onshape for free to see if it works for your use case. If you find out that it doesn't suit your needs, there are definitely other CAD choices in the market.
Re: Custom Feature: Frame Trim/Extend
I think the only way this could be done is if frame trim allowed for multiple faces to be selected, which currently it doesn't AFAIK. Seems like a useful feature to have though!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 7th, 2025
I'll echo that the addition of configurable visibility of specific options is a game-changer, but currently because you cannot select the whole range of options it's quite limited. I appreciate the workaround, I might implement that for something I'm working on if a fix isn't pushed soon.
Re: Offset tool on Text?
Dissapointing that this feature has not been added almost 8 years later.
Would be a good ticket item for an intern.
Offset tool on Text?
I'm designing a thingamabob to print on my 3D printer. I want to print and object, then have a text inlay printed as a separate part that snaps into the first part. I'm new at 3D printing, but I'm comfortably certain that I need to allow a small gap between the text inlay and the hole for the text inlay. So I was thinking that I'd create a text object in the sketch, then use the offset tool to create the gap, extrude both, use the boolean function to cut the text-plus-offset out of the first part, then remove the offset extrusion and have my text part remain.
But I can't get the offset tool to work with a text object in a sketch. Am I missing something here, or am I just out of luck?
Can't drag Documents to Folders since new update
Since the latest update, dragging and dropping Documents to subfolders no longer works. Documents in the currently open folder are shown in the bottom pane, subfolder in the top pane, and there seems to be no way to drag and drop between them.
I now have to right-click the Document and use 'Move to'
Is there a way around this?
Re: Auto arrange dimensions in sketch
Umm.. It would.. But how? Dimensions in a sketch are where you place them. I tend to try and lay them out as I would on a drawing. How should they be arranged? What would 'correct arrangement' look like?
