EDITING TOOLS IN ONSHAPE DRAWINGS

Ed_designeng

I'm trying to edit my custom drawing template and I need to draw and edit lines etc.. I need to copy lines or boxes, offset them, move them, scale them etc Where are these tools?

MichaelPascoe

There are not many geometry editing tools within drawings at the moment. You will have to do it the old fashioned way of using the line tool and snapping. You can draw long horizontal lines and vertical ones and use them as guides that you can move around. You can also draw small lines and use them as measurement guides to get a consistent border width.

eric_pesty

Short answer is that these tools don't exist in the drawing environment, but there is a work around.

You can do it as sketches in a part studio and export to DXF and import into the drawing. It felt a bit dumb initially but it's actually quite flexible, I have setup a part studio with several sketches containing things like borders in one, a simple title block in another one, and more complete title block, etc…

The key to get the different ones to be placed correctly was to place a diagonal construction line matching the paper size in each sketch to import (bottom left to top right) and this way it will just come in centered on the page (and you just delete the one line).

MichaelPascoe

There are not many geometry editing tools within drawings at the moment. You will have to do it the old fashioned way of using the line tool and snapping. You can draw long horizontal lines and vertical ones and use them as guides that you can move around. You can also draw small lines and use them as measurement guides to get a consistent border width.

eric_pesty

Short answer is that these tools don't exist in the drawing environment, but there is a work around.

You can do it as sketches in a part studio and export to DXF and import into the drawing. It felt a bit dumb initially but it's actually quite flexible, I have setup a part studio with several sketches containing things like borders in one, a simple title block in another one, and more complete title block, etc…

The key to get the different ones to be placed correctly was to place a diagonal construction line matching the paper size in each sketch to import (bottom left to top right) and this way it will just come in centered on the page (and you just delete the one line).

MichaelPascoe

That's brilliant! @eric_pesty

glen_dewsbury

Eric. I've been putting the whole format in one sketch which eliminates placement of individual sketches in the drawing. I also add an outline box around the border the same size as drawing size then delete in the drawing template to get centering. As to the dynamic notes that include part or drawing properties, well I just eyeball as best I can.

Title block can be a separate tab and derived into each format if you like.

Ed_designeng

Thanks guys. Very helpful.

While waiting for replies, I defaulted to doing up the sketches in Draftsight and importing the dwg into Onshape.

Unfortunate that there is no really useful sketch editing toolset in Onshape drawings.