Assembly section view

lucymarie_mantese

I am having trouble creating a section view for my assembly and would appreciate help.  I have attached a screenshot that hopefully gives an indication of my approach.  I generated a mate connector and brought up the associated coordinate axes.  I think I'm supposed to click on the plane or arrow direction that I want to make the section cut.  I am interested in sectioning in the x or y directions but the only direction I am able to section-cut is in the z direction.  Thanks for any guidance.

_Ðave_

You need to click/activate the front or right plane (at the top of the feature tree) prior to selecting the section view. or you may click the upper circle on the gonom z axis in your pic and rotate it before pushing the arrow in/out. HTH

lucymarie_mantese

@DaVicki Thank you for your message. I don't think the planes (front, right) are showing up in my feature tree.  As in the screenshot above, in my assembly I only see access to the Origin in the list on the left.  Could you please indicate how to access the planes in the feature tree?

_Ðave_

Here's a vid. HTH

matthew_menard

I don't think there are any base planes in assembly mode (or any planes for that matter?) for you to work from.  It may be in your best interest to make the components you have there in a single part studio, as that seems to be the recommended workflow.  I haven't been using OnShape for my day job, but in my experience from doing side projects, the single part studio works very well.

_Ðave_

Ya sorry, your correct. Try rotating the gnomon.

lucymarie_mantese

@DaVicki Thank you for the video instructions.  I am able to select the various base planes if I have a part (please see upper screenshot image).  But in the assembly it doesn't look like the base planes are accessible (lower screenshot image).  I think it might be the case as @matthew_menard indicated.  But I am able to make section views for my assembly by rotating the upper circle on the gonom z axis that was your second suggestion.  Thank you.

3dcad

@lucymarie_mantese

You need to edit that mate connector in origin so that you get the direction you wan't. Use move / rotate 90deg and change 'rotate about' -axis.
Then just choose that mate connector and section view from view menu. You can change distance and angle from triad which appears in section view.



ps. Just noticed that it is not possible to select origin as entity from feature list, I will create a ticket for that.

Narayan_K

@ lucymarie_mantese, Section view appear in z-axis of mate connector by default.For getting other section views,

1). You have to rotate the manipulator for the required axis. or

2) Rotate the mate connector to keep z-axis of mate connector to required axis while creating  mate connector

lucymarie_mantese

@Narayan_K Thank you for the animation describing the various section views.  

jelte_steur814

I also feel a need for a clickable something in assemblies for an immediate front/top/right section cut like you can make in part studio.

This workaround with having to find a face and then rotate the view 90 degrees is cumbersome.

i've created a simple dummy Cube that I now load as a part in my assembly that i can click to create the basic section views in 1 click.

It's public: feel free to add it to your assembly as a simple work around untill the Onshape team comes up with a better UI solution for creating the base section views.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/39fb7b5a9f9514ef090f38e9/w/1218400f029cd405adfe9076/e/994a7bc158f136f4b21eb43c



 

ChuckBerg

You are now able to create a mate connector at the origin.  Select this mate connector with the "section plane" highlighted.  You can then select the manipulators to rotate and create your section.  You are also able to create a multi-plane section in one step using this tool.

René_Sartorio

It would be nice if you could select the origin as the starting point for the section view.

S1mon

This is one of my main pain points, especially when I want to send a link to someone who isn't that familiar with Onshape.

Vote for these:

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/16948/cross-section-through-origin-by-default
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/17033/cross-section-through-sketch-plane-without-selection
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/20469/using-view-cube-as-shortcut-for-standard-sketch-planes