building a complex sheet metal part in context....

racs_lette

nick_papageorge073 said:

My 3 cents:)

You are designing an airplane! That's about as complicated as it gets! (Ps, have you followed https://www.youtube.com/@DarkAeroInc ? Its a group of 3 bothers ME's designing an airplane in OS. Their content is super good).

With that in mind, training in OS will be way more worthwhile for someone like you, a retired engineer making an airplane, as compared to a beginning hobbyist that is making drink coasters on a 3D printer. You will end up using the full breath of the CAD system for an airplane design.

I'd full-stop completely what you are doing and spend 3 weeks just going through every single training tutorial. Don't bother with Youtube. Go right to the source in the OS training center. All the courses are excellent, and free. An airplane will encompass curves, surfacing, sheetmetal, top-down design, in-context editing, derive, multiple documents, versions, wiring, featurescripts, everything!

In OS, the phrase "in-context" has a very specific meaning. What you are calling "in-context" is actually "multi-body", or "multi-part" modeling. "In-Context" is actually something completely different. OS has 3 ways of doing top-down design. 1st is Multi-part (what you are doing), second is "derive", third is "in-context editing". All 3 will be super helpful to you on this project. There are training courses for all 3 in the training center.

Happy designing:)

Thanks for the tips and advice! I'll definitely check out the OS training center and focus on going through all the tutorials before continuing with my airplane design. And thanks for clarifying the different ways of doing top-down design in OS. I appreciate your input!

don_b

so moving along......

any way to insert....copy ....translate a sheet metal part without "finish sheet metal part"?

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8d396162fc10ced7c779b85a/w/81acc633ec79291aac81fb52/e/ae44908cc009403f37f3208a

don_b

or the same question for a sketch ripe for extrude as a sheet metal part.....feature scrip might work but I was not able to follow the steps to make one

don_b

copy and paste a sketch from the same document into proper plane orientation should work...if that is the only why ....so be it.   

would be nice to have mate connectors work with sketches or translate work with sheet metal .....