Reuse existing Drawing for multiple remove-extrusions

kvdmolen

For example, I have an aluminum profile. I made a Sketch of it, which is defined around the center point. This is quite a difficult sketch.
I can easily use this Sketch te extrude the profile.

However, I also have various parts where I mill this profile into other parts (so the negative).
This is done for many parts.

Can I re-use ONE drawing for all these remove-extrusions?

Copy-paste a drawing into a new sketch somehow works, but two problems:
- It is a copy-paste (perhaps I want to change the original).
- If the sketch uses references to planes, e.g. mirror, these references are lost in the paste. Centerpoint can be positioned, rotation also, however redefine planes are difficult..

Thanks!

NeilCooke

Can you Derive the aluminium profile into this Part Studio and Boolean/Subtract?

kvdmolen

Hi Neil, that will solve something, however the positioning is still an issue (I have one part where I need this in two places).

Also, it would be nice to be able to share this sketch/shape between part-studio's or documents.
With this solution I would need to draw all parts in one part-studio.
Any ideas on that?

steve_shubin

@Klaas


The below is all in 1 Part Studio using 1 sketch


https://cad.onshape.com/documents/5d540dd39b2f07b9cfdac69f/w/c9ac5f8451b177ec0eca9e00/e/8a8931ac6b17169b26f22d98

kvdmolen

@steve_shubin I like your approach, thanks.
However, I also have this kind of profiles, plus the double occurrence of them:

steve_shubin

@Klaas

As to what you’re showing in the message above, looks like you could use the same basic approach I used above. From what I see in your post above, that item could be built based on one sketch — But I really would need to see or have a real good description of the end product you were looking for or what types of parts you were looking to model

You could do a whole lot in one part studio.
And you could also do quite a bit with one sketch. It may not be the best approach to use one sketch, but the program is capable of doing some fairly involved things using one sketch

john_mcclary

I'd suggest using derive or super derive.

I'd link it but i fat finger deleted it from my toolbar trying to open the link. Now i can't find the 'official' one. I didn't see it on mbartlett's or dcorwin's git hub lists. 

Anyone got the official link? I don't want to dig through my docs for the last time i used it. 

kvdmolen

@john_mcclary

Derived is almost what I was looking for: can I re-position (and rotate) the derived drawing?

For example, the original sketch was drawn on the Front surface.
In the above part I need to remove-extrude the Sketch twice, at the top, and at a different locations.

Thanks!

konstantin_shiriazdanov

@john_mcclary here is superderive - https://cad.onshape.com/documents/cfef86ed4f9635531599a973/v/5ee89fa6e9c437289bbc6f07/e/305f5ce7d2fdb46e12881f6f?jumpToIndex=496&showReturnToWorkspaceLink=true

steve_shubin

@Klaas

YOU SAID —
With this solution I would need to draw all parts in one part studio

YOU ALSO SAID —
However, I also have this kind of profiles

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Again, the below was done utilizing one sketch in one Part Studio

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/7b706b8dc8c78881534c6d1e/w/ff8dd42ea42f90ba7dad9fdc/e/55ec64a8b2ac4f68532ab773

kvdmolen

@konstantin_shiriazdanov & @john_mcclary
That works like a charm! Thanks a lot!

@steve_shubin
Thanks for sharing, though when it will get more complicated, I prefer the super derive option. This will keep things clear and ordered. 

john_mcclary

thanks for the link @konstantin_shiriazdanov

Glad it worked for you @Klaas