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Re: Unable to close sketch created from offsetting edge
Offsetting splines is one of the most brittle part of the Onshape sketcher (something it painfully shares with Solidworks).
Now that we finally get a clear indication of unconstrained sketches, I'm struck by how often I missed the end points of offset splines being unconstrained. The blue dots are practically invisible to me.
This is probably a situation where extruding as a surface or solid first and then offsetting or moving faces would work just fine.
S1mon
Re: Unable to close sketch created from offsetting edge
I got it to work. Those splines really don't want to be both offset and have coincident endpoints with one another (for some reason). I used a custom feature to find the open profiles in the sketch to show the lines that Onshape doesn't think are part of a closed profile (see screens). Then I started tinkering with constraints and modifications. The simplest to do was to delete the offset constraints on the profiles. This may not be what you want! But you can immediately see that the profiles go from open to closed and the extrude then works:
You can see it here:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/67af1f013ccc2b7712067b8f/w/5594aaee2081eeee2076622d/e/07b939bf07b96cd0047f99ad
Re: Onshape triggering autofill in Safari
I use Firefox for dayjob, and Safari for personal, simple projects. I've yet to come across any autofill issues in Safari, and I've been using it for about 1 year.
Note: Safari is my main browser outside of Onshape (for 20 years), and I do use the autofill function of it frequently.
Re: Mating a rafter to a beam
Hello :
The post has a tenon and the beam above has a mortice for that tenon.
1 Does the tenon cut the mortice automatically or after executing a boolean command?
2 If the post is moved, will the mortice move in the beam above?
3 If I wished to dimension the beam and print a drawing, I'd put the post on another drawing layer to hide it. In that case the mortice remains visible. However, the post must remain in position otherwise the mortice disappears.
4 How would OnShape handle this task?
Regards : Hubert Wagner
Triangular error icon in custom feature that is running correctly
Hey there,
I've written a custom feature to rename bodies. The feature is working as intended, but often (sadly, not always) when I change features above this feature in the feature, I get this icon:
The feature is still processing data correctly - the correct bodies are being assigned the correct names, the correct strings in body names are being replaced, etc. There are no notices Featurescript notices that give me an indication of what's going wrong.
The code for the feature is located here. As best I can tell, the feature 'thinks' some queries are incorrect (even though they're working correctly). I can clear the error out by triggering editing logic - so I'm willing to bet that the issue stems from there.
Any insight into this error and ways to resolve it would be hugely appreciated!
Thanks!
-j
Re: Triangular error icon in custom feature that is running correctly
My guess is that the query you assign in editing logic is not robust.
But I'm not able to replicate the error with your code.
What steps are you taking to cause this?
Re: Triangular error icon in custom feature that is running correctly
Hey Caden,
I get this error when I use a new .csv import file for a new design/size. I'll share a document with you that's configured. You can trigger the error by switching the configuration (which in turn starts with a new size/csv file).
Thanks!