assembly support

kevin_mattia

I'm going to have student designing a bird house in class with onshape.com.  Let's say its 8" x 6" side walls and a basic front and back, bottom and roof pieces.  The designs of each side as a part is all set.  I want to create an assembly and put everything together.  Then the kids can produce a drawing and use that to make a scaled down bird house, and then create a wood birdhouse based on this drawing.  I'm having trouble with the mating sides and getting this together.  Could someone please give me a few pointers?  Thanks very much

Matt_Shields

One of the things that makes Onshape different and awesome is that you can model parts that share geometry in the same Part Studio.  Check out this document:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1b397a5000407e20c9db9cbf/w/01c2dda7e955a87f24ebb1e0/e/f41a3b448762d7cc8c15346b

Matt_Shields

If the parts are all set, and you just want students doing assembly, I'd start here:
https://learn.onshape.com/learn/course/introduction-to-assembly-design

Assemblies in Onshape are really easy.  For a birdhouse, you'll probably just be adding Fastened mates to corners of pieces.

If the students are going to do actual design, then the #1 tip would be to design the whole house in one Part Studio.

kevin_mattia

So I was going to have the kids create a part for each side of the bird house.  Front (part 1), back  (part 2), left side (part 3) and so on...  Then go to assembly and insert all parts and in a perfect world mate them together.  Then we will 3D print a scaled down prototype and make a wood version based on these plans.  Is this the best way to go about this?

Matt_Shields

One of the things that makes Onshape different and awesome is that you can model parts that share geometry in the same Part Studio.  Check out this document:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1b397a5000407e20c9db9cbf/w/01c2dda7e955a87f24ebb1e0/e/f41a3b448762d7cc8c15346b

kevin_mattia

This is along the lines of what I'm looking to do.  i just need to break it down slowly for my middle school kids.  They need a step by step guide and then add their creativity, ultimately with a STL file for 3D printing and drawing/plan for wood creation.

outstanding

@kevin_mattia Since Onshape allows great collaboration on models, and you are likely working on a public model (right?), if you share the link and more specific questions in the model itself, we might be able to help. 

I personally think Matt Shields already answered enough above, but if you need help, give me a private message. I have time over this weekedn.

kevin_mattia

Can we connect on a google meet or zoom?