Best way of limiting to certain kind of materials

jan_vil

For example I want to build a chair out of 40x20mm square tubing. Is there a good way of limiting myself to only use this material when building up a sketch? And to later know how many meters worth of the material was used (or get a cut list)

And the next question would be if it's possible to limit myself to the amount of material I have. ie i have only 2 pieces of 3000mm worth of material,

I'm sorry if this question has been asked before but for now I didn't find a good answer yet, and i'm also pretty new to this.

MichaelPascoe

The easiest way to do this is with the Frame features. You can learn how to use them here: https://learn.onshape.com/courses/frames-fundamentals

https://learn.onshape.com/courses/frames-fundamentals

About your second question. Yes, you can use equations, variables, and custom features to have your part studio cut list optimized to fit a specific length of material.

Value solver by @Konst_Sh

There are some other nice solvers here by Caden and Neil: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/112200#Comment_112200...

eric_pesty

You want to use the "frame" tools (I suggest going through the learning center)…

MichaelPascoe

The easiest way to do this is with the Frame features. You can learn how to use them here: https://learn.onshape.com/courses/frames-fundamentals

https://learn.onshape.com/courses/frames-fundamentals

About your second question. Yes, you can use equations, variables, and custom features to have your part studio cut list optimized to fit a specific length of material.

Value solver by @Konst_Sh

There are some other nice solvers here by Caden and Neil: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/112200#Comment_112200...

eric_pesty

You want to use the "frame" tools (I suggest going through the learning center)…