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Sectioning in Assembly Mode for Mating Assembly Components Exercise
patrick_anthony
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I am stuck at Slide 18 of 20; in the Mating Assembly Components.
There has been no guidance on using the Section Tool, specifically for the GRIP in Assembly. I have figured out how to make Sectioning work in the PARTs section; but that doesn't seem to help in this case.
I do not know how to select the GRIP point, before selecting the 'Turn Section On'. The Lessons up to this point have not shown Sectioning with that tool in the Part or Assembly areas.
Please help me with the steps for Sectioning in the Assembly Area; of better still provide a Learning Link for the Sectioning Process.
The following LINK was captured from the Lesson Screen, at Step 18 of 20 ....
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/4a8c5ac25193eddaf18734dd/w/9d08f5392a0793bb41874483/e/0412b711a7f8445687011331
There has been no guidance on using the Section Tool, specifically for the GRIP in Assembly. I have figured out how to make Sectioning work in the PARTs section; but that doesn't seem to help in this case.
I do not know how to select the GRIP point, before selecting the 'Turn Section On'. The Lessons up to this point have not shown Sectioning with that tool in the Part or Assembly areas.
Please help me with the steps for Sectioning in the Assembly Area; of better still provide a Learning Link for the Sectioning Process.
The following LINK was captured from the Lesson Screen, at Step 18 of 20 ....
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/4a8c5ac25193eddaf18734dd/w/9d08f5392a0793bb41874483/e/0412b711a7f8445687011331
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Jake_Rosenfeld
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The link you posted is fine, I can see your document. You can insert screenshots by taking a screenshot on your computer and then clicking this button to insert it into your comment:
Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team5
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It may help if you post a screenshot of the slide itself to see what instruction you are referring to. I suspect that the instruction just wants you to click somewhere in the assembly, click the view menu (the box under the view cube), and click 'Turn section view on'.
Sometimes manipulators are referred to as grips, so the instruction is probably referring to the triad manipulator (it may want you to grab the center point of the manipulator and move it to the geometry you want to section) or the linear manipulator you get once you turn the section view on.
How OnShape has implemented Sectioning in Assembly seems to have changed from the Lesson Authoring. I am not sure how to add screen shots to my query; but I do see that the link I attached ends in a sign-in dead end
My mental road block I had nothing to do with knowing where to turn Sectioning ON item was, in the CUBE menu. It was knowing what to do next. There is an obvious gap in the Lesson material on this topic, created since the material was authored.
Hunting around for something on the "Component's GRIP" to trigger a response, after turning Sectioning was ON, did the trick. Then I figured out how to get to the Section Level I needed, to place the Mate Connector between the part walls. From there it was easy.
I think the guidance that send me down the wrong road was that in the 'Parts Studio' you select a plane first, then Turn On Sectioning. But the process is quite different in the Assembly side of things; with the Sectioning Turned on FIRST. I found quite a few YouTube videos of folks similarly lost, over past years; which help me find my way to a solution. From the videos I could see that the Sectioning Interface has changed over the last few years. I guess time based disconnects are part of the price for using the free lessons.
Thx for all your support ..... every little bit helped to pave my way to a "You Are Correct" conclusion for that Lesson section.
Now on to another .....
Anyway, the training material is very up to date. You can select a planar face before or after turning on sectioning.
No disrespect, but your answer told me something that I already knew; so did not resolve my misunderstanding..... just my 'No' to the feedback question, explicitly.
What I was struggling with was how to select (or even find) the planar face.
In the Parts Studio the x, y, z planes are easy to find; while in Assembly all you get is Origin; which lead to my further confusion.
I am very new to CAD so what might be obvious to you, is not to learners. It was the following Form Discussion that finally helped get the 'light bulb on', as to my problem. The dialogue was very much similar to my learning path & misunderstandings.
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/2261/assembly-section-view
Thx for your patience.