Mirroring and instance management needed!

JoshBarnett

I'm new to Onshape, just bought a pro licence and am enjoying it...

Q1: What is Onshape's timeline for adding:

1. Assembly mirroring
2. Instance management in part studio (i.e. detect identical parts... analogous to SW detecting identical bodies)

Q2: What are work arounds to the above?

Looks like there is currently a trade-off for static assemblies...

• A ) doubling the amount of work required to mate an assembly (very painful in larger assemblies, introduces error)
• B ) doubling the amount of part numbers by mirroring in part studio and the grouping in assembly (just wrong, bad BOM)

But what about dynamic assemblies and/or you have a bunch of mirrored imported parts etc etc..

Will have to continue using Solidworks for the majority of work without these improvements.


Cheers
Josh

konstantin_shiriazdanov

Hi, you can find some discussion about mirroring workflow here: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/61226#Comment_61226

JoshBarnett

Thanks @konstantin_shiriazdanov , nice job on the FS, but I probably won't be using this for released work

Still hoping to get an idea of when this will be added? 

Surprised there isn't more user pressure on the improvement request!