In Part Studio: How to place one part on the surface of another and merge them via extrusion?

sebastian_motzet

Hello,

I have the following issue: In my Part Studio there are two parts (Part1 & Part2). I want to somehow place Part2 (right) on the surface of Part1 (left) without warping either one but I can't figure out how to do it. I've done the same thing in Blender to illustrate what I want to do:

In onshape it looks like this right now:

I'm aware that there are some ambiguities in the geometry that need to be clearly defined. Ideally I want to only set an exact rotation of Part2 around the x-axis (pointing right on the images) and move it to the left until its bottom surface-plane touches and is tangential to the surface of Part1. To close the remaining gap I'd extrude the flat face of Part2 up to Part1.

Is there any way to do something like this? I've tried projecting the sketch for Part2 onto Part1, but that distorts the dimensions and I can't generate a clearly defined volume from it.

Thanks a lot.

robert_scott_jr_

Hello Sebastian. One way is to move part 2 (smaller part?) into position using mate connectors assigned to each part. From there an option is to extrude the appropriate face of part 2 so that it joins part 1. - Scotty

join parts | Part Studio 1 (onshape.com)

glen_dewsbury

Move the sketch used for part 2 until it intersects with part 1 and change the revolve function from new to add. You can transform part 2 and Boolean with part 1 but that's more work.

Eric_Wong

You can try to move part 2 using the transform tool, then transform with a mate connector or by translation until the bodies are intersecting. Then boolean them together to get your desired part