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Help with understanding assemblies
ittay_dror
Member Posts: 4 ✭
I have created a chicken coop design. All in one parts studio. It has 105 parts, most of which are wood beam/cladding.
My understanding is that in order to create a drawing, I need to create assemblies of the different "groups" in the coop (skeleton, walls, floor, roofs, ramp).
So I started inserting these, but I don't understand how to position them. For example, the roof is slanted in the parts assembly, but in the drawing I want it horizontal, yet in the assembly there's only the crude handles to move and rotate, nothing accurate. I tried to use a planer mate from one of the planks of the roof to the origin which makes it flat, but still moveable from side to side.
Also, for BOM, I was hoping that Onshape will identify beams of the same geometry and would group them, but it doesn't. Anyway to do it?
Answers
If the parts are to be fastened, naturally a Fasten Mate should be used. For a chicken coop, the only part that might use a different mate would be the door if you wanted/needed it to swing open and close. When you use a mate, the parts will move into a position dictated by the mate; no need to move them manually. You can also assign mates in the parts studio, and they will carry over into the assembly. In the assembly, one part needs to be Fastened (this is different from a Fasten Mate) in the assembly. Without that being done all the parts or parts that have been mated together will be free move around in 3D space. Something needs to be the anchor. - Scotty
For view orientation, in the asm studio, pick a face of the part you want to be your drawing's "front" view. Right click, and pick "view normal to". After it moves, save the view and call it dwg-front. Now go to your drawing, and it will be one of the view options. Once it's placed as the first view, you can use projection views off of it to get Right, Top, Left, etc.