Open Drawing from Part Studio

Lavon

Is there a way to switch to a parts drawing from the part studio? In SW when you create a drawing you can right click and "Open Drawing" but all I can find in OS is "Create Drawing." It's a pain to go looking for a parts drawing when you have 50 of them in a folder. You can switch to the part studio from the drawing but vise versa?

BMcGaffey

There is no way to do this at the moment in Onshape. The parts and drawings only seem to be connected by name, although I am sure there is another link going on behind the scenes. This is functionality that we really need as well, searching through documents with over a hundred drawings is beyond tedious. I am sure it will be coming down the pipeline soon. They have been pushing a lot of drawing improvements lately. 

BMcGaffey

There is no way to do this at the moment in Onshape. The parts and drawings only seem to be connected by name, although I am sure there is another link going on behind the scenes. This is functionality that we really need as well, searching through documents with over a hundred drawings is beyond tedious. I am sure it will be coming down the pipeline soon. They have been pushing a lot of drawing improvements lately. 

PeteYodis

Yes, it's not possible currently but it is something we intend to support.  

ken_xu

PeteYodis said:

Yes, it's not possible currently but it is something we intend to support.  

any updates on this? been 2 years. Thanks.

Lucas_Kuhns

Is there an improvement request I can go vote on for this? Came to the OS forums tonight for this purpose.

Brian_Mick

Any update? it's been two years, we really need this functionality for managing hundreds of parts.  Thank you!! 

Brian_Mick

Everyone, here is the improvement request: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/19353/open-drawing-from-part-or-assembly/p1?new=1

Please upvote to expedite! 

Lucas_Kuhns

I'm not an Onshape developer but my suspicion is that the "difficulty" with this is that there is not a 1:1 match between part and drawing. You can have the same part referenced on one or many different drawings.