Share part studios between different Documents.

Marco_Savary

I'm not totally familiar with OnShape Workflow yet.  Can I share part studios or parts between documents/assemblies? Ex: I want reuse a Hex head M10x50 between documents.

_Ðave_

Sure you can. Just right click any part studio tab and select copy to clipboard. then in any other document click the + in the lower left corner and select paste tab.
HTH
_Dave_

viru

@Marco_Savary ,Onshape documents are like containers, in which they contains assembly, drawing and part studio tabs. Currently in Onshape document to document referencing are not available. User can use and copy part studio of different document. This facility is not available for assembly and drawing. User have to use "copy to clipboard" option to copy the part studio and "paste tab" option to paste in different document.In future we will hope that this facility will also available for assembly and drawing studio also. Kindly refer below video for more detail.

Marco_Savary

Viru your video is good. Thanks for the copy and paste tip inside of a document.

I'm looking to assemble a part that resides on "documents A" into "documents B". But as you answered it is not possible right now.

-A part released with a drawings inside of a document cannot be reused with another document. It must be remodel.

I can't see a work flow with 10 different products inside of a document, in order to reuse their parts.
Is it ever will be possible to share document between documents? All that external references and circular references! It looks daunting.

 

viru

@Marco_Savary , You can copy part studio from one document to another document. after that you can use that part in assembly. If you see video more closely there are two document (1st document and 2nd document). User has created part in document 1 and that part studio with the help of copy clipboard option pasted in 2nd document.
"Assembly tab" and "drawing tab" user cannot copy and paste in same and another document.

philip_thomas

Marco_Savary said:

Is it ever will be possible to share document between documents? All that external references and circular references! It looks daunting.

Marco - you are correct that that would be nice. As with all things 'nice' we are thinking very hard about it

peter_hall

philip_thomas

^ something like that.
Also a fair bit of this . . .  

Marco_Savary

Viru. I looked closer and you copied between to 2 documents. I did it and it worked good. Thanks. Very handy feature and nice work around. But still is a duplicate and drawings or assemblies cannot be copied or reused yet.

For a single or small family of product, the documents container works very well, but in a larger family of products, I may have to rethink my project structure, because every single part must be inside of a single document in order to share and not to have duplicates.
Different! I will try that.

viru

@Marco_Savary, You can now insert parts, assemblies, and more from other Documents into the current Document.
Now you may not have to rethink about your project structure.


You can refer below thread which will be helpful to you.
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/3637/improvements-to-onshape-april-13th-2016#latest