Parts Not Showing

GWS50

I have many imported parts, one of which is a motor. When I try to place the motor into an assembly it doesn't show in the list of available parts even though I can access it in the Studio Part tab.
Why would this be and what am I missing?

Narayan_K

@ guy_4, Please confirm that,
1) You have imported motor to same document and work space.
2) Imported motor is solid body.(If it is in surface you can't insert it to assembly)

Narayan_K

@ guy_4, Please confirm that,
1) You have imported motor to same document and work space.
2) Imported motor is solid body.(If it is in surface you can't insert it to assembly)

nav

Hi @guy_4does the model you are trying to import has surfaces ? verify this as OS assemblies does not recognise surfaces.

 https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/1881/import-woes

GWS50

That must be it then, I guess it must be made up of surfaces. Thank you both the the heads up I'll try and turn it into solids.

andrew_troup

Quite a few recent threads discussing this problem, and ways to address it, on the forum

GWS50

I can't find any solutions to this problem in the forum. I ended up using another CAD program to rebuild the surfaces as solids by extracting the surfaces and extruding into solids, something I couldn't do in OS as I couldn't create planes from the surfaces. This was rather dull and time consuming to say the least. Hopefully OS will accommodate surfaces soon.

nav

guy_4 said:

I can't find any solutions to this problem in the forum. I ended up using another CAD program to rebuild the surfaces as solids by extracting the surfaces and extruding into solids, something I couldn't do in OS as I couldn't create planes from the surfaces. This was rather dull and time consuming to say the least. Hopefully OS will accommodate surfaces soon.

Did you try the thicken command in OS?

GWS50

Yes but too many surfaces to make it viable