HOW CAN I CONNECT MULTIPLE DIFFERENT LINES TO MAKE A CONTINUOUS ONE?

grace_kelly

I'm creating the outline of a ring on OnShape and getting ready to extrude it, however, the outline is made up of 6 separate lines. I am trying to figure out how to connect these lines to make a continuous line, however, I'm a bit stuck.
(P.S I'm very new to OnShape so if the answer is really obvious, I apologise in advance.)


**I want the 6 lines in the outer line to be connected, rather than to all be separate, this way i'll be able to extrude it.**

owen_sparks

Hi and welcome

The important thing here is not that they're one line, but they're they're coincident. (ie meet exactly at a point.)

If you do that the inner part of your sketch will turn grey, indicating you have an enclosed "sketch region".  It's this region we'll extrude...

There are some great examples and webinar recording for learning this stuff.  Have a look for sketch basics or sketch fundamentals.

Feel free to shout with any questions as you come to them.

Cheers, Owen S.

john_mcclary

You also don't need to worry about trimming etc.

just get the shape, constrain the intersections and extrude the areas you want.

mahir

@grace_kelly
If you're new to Onshape, or even to CAD in general, it's well worth your time to go through the tutorials. Lots of questions get answered as you go.

Onshape Fundamentals

Jake_Rosenfeld

Here is a useful one @grace_kelly

https://learn.onshape.com/courses/fundamentals-sketching

grace_kelly

Thanks Everyone for your help, I now realised I took a very hard and long way to get the shape I wanted when it could have been so much simpler. I know how I need to fix it. Thanks Again!
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david_veloz

If you want to do this for the purpose of moving your sketch as one part within the sketch, a workaround I found was to “over-define” the shape with dimensions. Then when you move a single line, splice, etc. the whole “shape” will move. 

john_mcclary

david_veloz said:

If you want to do this for the purpose of moving your sketch as one part within the sketch, a workaround I found was to “over-define” the shape with dimensions. Then when you move a single line, splice, etc. the whole “shape” will move. 

What do you mean?

MBartlett21

@john_mcclary
I don't think he means actually over-define until it goes read, just defining lots of dimensions, etc.

svdb

This is an old question but it still comes up on top of search engines.
Somehow, everybody's providing tons of advice but nobody's answering the actual question.
So here's the answer:

1. Select the end point of line #1
2. Click the Coincident button in the toolbar.
3. Select the end point of line #2 where you want to join the first line to.