High school teacher looking for help

clark_bliske

I"m looking for some simple sample drawings of woodworking projects to inspire my students to buy into the design phase of their project more than just doing google image searches and showing me a photo of what they want to build.  My students are all using Chromebooks, so I love the access they would have...but I'm getting a bit overwhelmed going through the tutorials and trying to get myself...".52 year old dinosaur" up to speed using it before next school year roles around.

daniel_splawski

A simple search would be the best way to find simple woodworking projects in Onshape I think.   If you're going to recommend that your students use Onshape to design projects you'll probably have to learn the design process well enough to create simple projects yourself.

Personally, I find the Onshape YouTube videos to be a bit dry.  They're more focused on industrial users it seems.  The YouTube user "3DDC" had a few good intro movies but he hasn't produced anything in a while.  Honestly, it might just be easier to slog through the design process a few times following tutorials.  

The key to a good design starting with a properly constrained sketch.  Make a rough sketch of the general shapes using the center point rectangle as your starting point,  and then use the dimension command to define the sizes of everything (outside dimensions, cutouts, hole locations, any radii). The horizontal, vertical and coincident constraints are also very useful.  Also, practice using construction lines.  They can really help to make your sketches cleaner as you add complexity to your project.  Finally, I have personally found the use command very helpful for the creation of your second or third sketches.  

After a quick search I found the following coat rack.  Tongue and groove construction which is good for school woodworking. 
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ead44e61a46b4a3391aa7bf4/w/e85ec764e5fa47bf831dcdab/e/c35f0da241804eedb3c41969

This tutorial/video is well above your level, but I thought it was quite interesting when I first saw it.  
http://www.solidsmack.com/cad/everything-you-need-to-know-about-featurescript/

daniel_splawski

Oh yeah... I made this one and it would fit the bill.
 https://cad.onshape.com/documents/d852851d9afc0ef4401f29bb/w/d933aed7116f710acf9f8aa9/e/d9db4bc03fb65ab3555579fe

viru

@clark_bliske, Kindly visit below thread which include many getting started videos with Onshape. I have personally found that use of below video is helpful to learn Onshape quickly.
https://www.onshape.com/video-getting-started-with-onshape