Automate normal to sketch Plane / hide other planes upon sketch plane selection.

mcconnell113

Nothing super over burdening but it is a nice feature of solidworks that you see it automatically rotate to a normal view of the sketch plane upon selection of a plane to sketch upon. It also hides the other planes from view at this time as im sure most of you are already aware of being solidworks devs and users alike. Can we get this easily?

lougallo

@McConnell113 You can just hit N on your keyboard.  We don't yet have options for users to set for this but it will be something down the road.  For now, keyboard shortcuts are there.  You can see them all by clicking on ? menu and selecting Keyboard shortcuts or just hitting the ? on your keyboard to launch the map.

mcconnell113

I guess I didn't realize normal to worked for a sketch plane. Used to solidworks workflow so forgot about the shortcuts which in my opinion is the best way. Thanks lou

michael_kline

years later, and this still hasnt been resolved. i come from a solidworks background, and this was a really nice feature. would really like to see this implemented.

john_mcclary

Click a plane or face
Shift+s (new sketch) 
P (hide/show planes)
N (normal to) 

Will get you what you want.

This isn't an improvement request thread by the way. 
You can vote for it here

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/8320/option-to-automatically-view-normal-to-new-sketch

billy2

I don't like automatic flip normal. I'd rather just hit the "N" key. 

I guess everyone is different.

I prefer the OS way.

NeilCooke

billy2 said:

I don't like automatic flip normal. I'd rather just hit the "N" key. 

I guess everyone is different.

I prefer the OS way.

I would like to hit N a second time and get it to flip 180 though. Anyone with me? Make an IR. 

john_mcclary

billy2 said:

I don't like automatic flip normal. I'd rather just hit the "N" key. 

I guess everyone is different.

I prefer the OS way.

Agreed, auto normal to is trash imo. I'd prefer if people would break this bad habbit to be honest. Normal to has a place, but it is more harm than good more often then not. Due to unwanted sketch relationships being created just becase your sketch overlaps an object below.. Yuck! 

But that's why I pray it only becomes an option, not the default.. 

michael3424

My other CAD program (Alibre) auto rotates the model and that drives me nuts.  Onshape's way is much better for my usage,

matt_thomas496

Just wondering why, those who dont like it to flip normal like it that way? 

Ste_Wilson

Sometimes it's unwanted and pressing 'n' isn't much of a chore.

martin_kopplow

matt_thomas496 said:

Just wondering why, those who dont like it to flip normal like it that way? 

For most of the times, when I start a sketch, I'd be in a suitable view anyway, and it autorotating only gives me vertigo, requirein me to re-orientate, plus in most cases it only puts obscuring geometry on top of my place of interest. I rather like to control that myself. In my other CAD (ANSYS Discovery/Spaceclaim), there is a setting to automatically turn off or make transparent everything that lies above the sketch plane. That is very convenient, and helps much more than autorotating, plus it might even make autorotating to normal somewhat usable. Their sketch view interface is by far the best I have seen in the industry, so far, certainly worth a look for the OS developers.

toshichi_tojo

But how do you know to press N? Is there a button or a menu item performs the function for N hotkey?
I think it makes a software hard to understand if you can only find a function from instrunstion rather than find it on the UI.

S1mon

I agree that some things could have more affordances so that there are multiple ways to discover tools and commands. I would recommend though, that you hit '?' and study the keyboard shortcuts every so often. It's well worth it to speed up workflows.