parts

austin_smith234

I need a document to have multiple parts in it for my class how to I add a part ? 

bruce_williams

Onshape has great learning tools.  See the Learning Center at https://learn.onshape.com/.

Step by step: Create a document and in a Part Studio make one part.  Then make another which either is seperate from first part or set the feature to 'New' if the parts are touching.   You have created two parts.  

The software is not hard to learn and if you spend time with the tutorials, you will do fine.

john_mcclary

Parts are just a list of solid bodies in a part studio. 

They are created or destroyed by adding features such as extrude, revolve, loft etc.. 

Make sure you have 'new' selected and 'solid' when creating an extrude for example 

steve_shubin

@austin_smith234

YOU ASKED —
how do I add a part ?

On top of creating parts, you can also
ADD parts by bringing them in from other documents

ALSO

You can import parts

To bring In parts from other documents, use DERIVED

In the GIF below, the part was imported from the McMaster-Carr iPhone app

john_mcclary

Guess I misread question. I thought you were trying to add parts in a part studio. rather than the document.

If you are in assembly, you can insert by pressing (i) then choosing a part within the same document, or from other documents.

bruce_williams

Nice catch @steve_shubin !   & good explanation both of you