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Introducing the Onshape Educator Plan!
Exciting News for Educators! We are thrilled to introduce the Onshape Educator plan! This innovative offering is now available for free to teachers and mentors dedicated to shaping the future generation of engineers. Tailored to optimize the CAD and data management capabilities of Onshape, the new Educator Plan encompasses…
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Intro to CAD Updates
Hi everyone! We have been working on some updates to Intro to CAD for clarity and usability and are happy to announce it is ready for this school year! If you already have copies of the documents, you WILL want to go in and make new ones. One of these updates was for the scavenger hunt and the parts won't all come through…
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CAD Challenges App
Hey educators! You may have seen this post yesterday about our new CAD Challenges app. I just wanted to highlight the app specifically for this community. We hope it will be usefull as a fun way for students to practice their modeling skills. What @ian_d_gardiner calls "CAD calisthenics." Specifically, the app challenges…
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Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Test Bench Project
Good Afternoon! I am hoping to complete the Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Test Bench Project with my students, but I wanted to do quick test print to make sure it everything works well. Are there any open and editable files for this project? Thanks, Rebecca
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When managing users via CSV upload, do the invitations have an expiration?
In our semester-long makerspace course, I upload the entirety of our 6th grade class at the beginning of the school year in early September. Many invitations seem to get dropped by semester 2 in late January, so I usually upload everyone again. We also have a rotation of multiple machines in the course, and students start…
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Rainbow Faces Custom Feature
I have found Rainbow Faces from Smart Bench Software to be a great Custom Feature! https://cad.onshape.com/documents/6c10172a1734b4f178ad78be/w/70765346933e90216a09db4c/e/7c1aed24adff1f95d693043f Not only do kids love the pretty parts, but it also helps with understanding of drawings and how features show up in different…
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Improvement Request: Fix the Hole Tool Terminology in Traditional Chinese
As an educator using Onshape in the classroom, I’ve noticed a critical translation error in the Hole Tool that leads to student confusion: Currently, the terms for Counterbore and Countersink are mistranslated or swapped in the Traditional Chinese interface. Counterbore (Flat-bottomed hole) should be 沉頭孔. Countersink…
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CAD for Robotics Competitions
Are you using our CAD for Robotics Competitions course? We'd love to know how it's going. Share tips, post pictures of your models, tell us your favorite unit, or let us know how you've expanded or extended it.
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How to manage my school structure
Hello! I started as the only Onshape user at my school, but we have grown quickly and now have 20 teachers using the platform! My school now needs to formalize how we handle drawing exams. We need to move exam documents to specific administrators or "organizers" who can then manage the permissions (who can view or modify…
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Marble Machine Motivation
Greetings fellow educators! I'm so entranced lately with watching the Wintergatan - YouTube series. With the help of @Derek_Van_Allen_BD (and constant shout outs to @EvanReese ), we get to see the creative process unfold in real time (although the after real time, 1.5x speed is the more realistic option). I'm sure he'll…
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Student document issues.
I am tearing my hair out (and there isn't much to tear out). Students seem to default to my "Mr Knox" folder as the default working folder. They create a document that the entire class can see and then have access to. Students are then working, changing, and submitting a document that isn't their personal document. Yes,…
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Classroom Assignments - Restrict Sharing but enable drawing export?
I have set up an assignment so that students are unable to share their documents to help prevent plagiarism. I want them to export the drawings as PDF, but the option is not there. I assume this is because the of the assignment share permissions. Is there a way around this?
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Something to be aware of- Issues with students changing documents
I've been using the classes and mostly love the ability to have students submit assignments through the system. I've been having a couple of issues and I'm not sure of the solution. When I create an assignment using one of the Onshape lessons, I copy it to my documents. The issue is that by default it puts them into the…
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Activity
Hello, well I don't know if I am at the right place, but I will ask a question and if I'm at the wrong group please let me know. We are using OnShape to teach students of Mechanical Engineering the CAD basics. During our course we have couple of small exams and those exams differ from classroom to classroom (we have 40…
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Schedule Assignments feature request
Currently, when creating assignment's it is left in a Draft state untill [Publish assignment] is selected. I believe it would be useful to be able to schedule the assignment with a Date and Time picker. The Picker should include NOW, or Date and time With that, a Close assignment scheduler would also be helpful. Like the…
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we need the CAM studio
Hello team The CAM Studio is an amazing addition which I was waiting for. But sadly, it is not for educators and students yet. I am now in a situation for which I really need to do 3D and even 4D CAM processing, but I struggled finding something I can use. My faculty is pushing me to buy a license for Fusion 360 because it…
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Can I download a class submission to 3D print a classes work?
I'm running a series of CAD projects across different year groups. One of the projects is a key fob that I want to 3D print for the class. Can I download all of their ideas at once instead of going into each students project and exporting as an STL file? If not, can this be a considered upgrade?
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Classes vs Teams
Been using Onshape for years now but this is the first time I am trying Classes vs using Teams for my students to create and save their work. I have a few questions please: When setting up classes and then creating assignments, how do i create a copy of the same document for myself so that I can teach it to them in the…
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Split the Certification into 2 assessments
The format of the Onshape Associate exam is 2 test during a 180 min period Is there a way for it to be split into 2, 90 min assessments to make it easier to give in a school setting?
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Answer Key
I'm teaching the Intro to CAD unit in OnShape, each unit has an end of unit assessment. Is there an answer key to those assessments?
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How do I set default team permissions?
How do I set default team permissions? I can't find the settings anywhere and can't find a solution searching for help . I want one team to have SHARE as a default permission
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Help with Lofts on fuselage
New Onshape user, but a lot of experience in CAD and some other 3d software. Having a hard time doing some lofts on an aircraft fuselage design. Any help appreciated.
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Export/Import Class with assets feature request
I believe it would be useful if there were a way an educator could export a classroom to share with colleagues and other educators. If I set up a training or classroom with assignments and documents as assets, it would be nice to be able to share this without the need for the other educator to rebuild the classroom and…
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Centre of gravity
Hi someone A quick question - can someone tells me how I scale a part in part studio around the Centre of Gravity? How do I set the CoG as reference point for scalling? Thanks in advance
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Free Onshape Projects with instruction sheets, drawings and step by step videos available
Hi, I am a retired teacher and have developed a series of instructional projects for teaching Onshape in the classroom or online. Each project has a free downloadable instruction sheet with dimensioned drawings and link to step by step videos. There are projects for making parts, assemblies and animations. Projects like a…
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Grading assignments
Hello, I am moving my classes from AutoCAD to Onshape and was wondering how you guys go about grading the assignments. I have seen from some people like totalltoby that they use the mass method but I want to make sure that they are putting holes and slots in the right place as well without having to go and pull up each and…
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Onshape Classroom Organization
Good Morning, I am trying to set up the classroom to use in my upcoming class as last term we started using CAD but instead of using the classroom feature we just had each student create a folder and share it with the instructor. I have been able to set up assignments and that is coming along nicely but as I add more and…
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Quiz Grade Viewing
How can I check the grade they earned on the quiz that the students in my class that I created? I have assigned them the coursework in CAD Basics, and each section has a quiz embedded into the lesson.
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Projects for Teachers in the Learning Center
In the Learning Center, under Educator Resources, you'll now find a category called Projects. These are full projects to inspire teachers and excite students. Each project includes learning objectives and sample Onshape documents, along with additional recommendations for pacing, extensions, and more. Check them out.…
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How to 'edit' or view student submissions with suppress on
The short version is that there's an assignment that has students insert a cam into a premade assembly and use the tangent mate to make the cam move a follower shaft up and down. With how it currently is, they both get sent to the middle of the axle that it's turning on. For convenience sake I told them to supress one cam…
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Onshape sketching introduction lesson 1
Hi there! New to onshape and going through the tutorials to see what is what. I am starting at the sketching introduction lesson 1 and can't seem to find the drawing page to open up to attempt the tutorial on, I have the step by step guide but not the drawing page, so I have nothing to draw on. Please can anyone help?…