Extending Centermark beyond the edges of a circle

chad_miars

Is there a method for extending the centermark beyond the edges of a circle? The centermark feature only inserts a small 'tick' marker at the center, I am looking for a large mark, larger than the diameter of the circle.  Any help is appreciated.  

viru

@chad_miars, yes you can do that with the help of 2 point center line option. When defining dimensions for a drawing, you will notice that orange snap points appear when you hover over a line or point. There are 4 types of snap points:

• Square snap points indicate end points
• Triangle snap points indicate midpoints
• Diamond snap points on a quad point of a circle or arc indicate one of the quadrants of the circle (User need to select diamond snap for defining center line for circle)
  
• Circle snap points indicate an arc or circle's center

Please refer below video for more detail.

H_Wang

But when you have say 20 of these center marks, this is very time consuming, any other solutions?

john_mcclary

No, not really

If it is a single part (not assembly)  then you can add them in a sketch in your part studio and show sketch in the drawing view.

Only slightly faster due to being able to sketch and constraints being quicker is partstudios

marc_nelson875

I agree!  Not an ideal situation to draw every line in individually. 


<pulls out T-square and triangles>

Enhancement request time!

Manoj_Patil

Kindly come up with multi-center marks for all holes in a view with a single hit. Something similar to SW. 

T_Rathier

There are 2 issues involved here.

One is that the center mark in Onshape only puts in a small cross. The center mark should have an option to extend it just past the edges of the arc or circle.

The second one is that 2-point centerlines in Onshape do not recognize the quadrant points of anything less than a 360-degree circle. So, if I want to add centerlines to a shaft hole that has a keyway, I cannot pick quadrant points to do so. Adding centerlines is standard practice for drafting, so this is sorely missed.