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Re: Sketching on a face without external references

I wanted to chime in here that I run into issues like this semi-frequently, even though I fully understand how the behavior works. Sometimes the sketch regions are super handy and reduce my clicks, but I think they can get in my way about as often as not. I'd love some way to tell Onshape when I care to use them and when I don't. The Onshape team are the UI masters, so I don't have any real suggestions, but just by way of making sure you know what I mean you might: (1) add a boolean toggle to the sketch itself to recognize them or not, maybe even by auto-creating a plane on the face, (2) Add some way to quickly select regions bounded by sketch geo, not face geo just by where you click (same way that you can select a face or whole surface body by mouse placement). I'm sure an Onshape original solution would be better than either of these, but hopefully, you get the idea.

EvanReese

Re: assembly degrees of freedom

Thanks for the help. It looks like that only works on the level of a single mate. For example, if I have two parts connected at two holes by two revolute mates (or revolute + cylindrical), the parts are fully constrained. However, if I animate either revolute mate, it will spin the part about the hole.
More generally, if I have a large assembly consisting of many parts and many mates, it would be very helpful to be able to see, across the entire assembly, where it is not constrained.

jonathan_mizrahi827

Re: How can i extrude a simple logo on a sketch?

DXF or DWG should work.

First, you will need to upload your DXF/DWG into your document

Then you will need to be in a part studio, create a sketch, then choose "insert DXF" and select your DXF/DWG

Now you will need to clean up the imported sketch, making sure all lines and edges are connected. This is going to take the most about of skill and may be where you are getting stuck right?

Here the square and circle will extrude because they are shaded. But the square on the right won't

If we zoom all the way in on the area with the red circle you can see it isn't touching, so it isn't a closed shape. (think back to MSPAINT and the bucket fill tool 😉)

You should see a grey shaded area in your sketch, so you know it is 'closed'. That closed area will be what is extrudable.

john_mcclary

Re: Having the legend "question" above the box where you want a title is .... not good.

Mate is a British/Australian figure of speach indicating a friendly relationship, like between a sketch and an angled plane.

I didn't know of the usefulness of mate connectors until recently. It's a feature that could use a better name. I propose "Really useful gizmo". I found the video Eric posted above pretty helpful, if you have 20 minutes to watch it.

jim_zamecnik