How to prevent sub-parts from melding together?

daniel_s_wolf

Say I plan to create a frame by screwing together four wooden boards. I might start with a sketch like this:



Then I might extrude all four outer faces individually, like this:



Here's the first part of my problem: The information that these are four individual boards is getting lost in the visualization. All four extrudes are melded together into a seamless part.

Now, if I import this part into a drawing, it's the same thing:



I added in red lines. Is there a way to get it to display like this?

I realize that I could have created individual parts in the part studio. (Let's ignore for a moment the fact that all four sub-parts are identical.) But for objects consisting of many individual elements, I find it much easier to create them as a single part.

Edit: The answers so far indicate that it is not possible to create a single part comprised of multiple "sub-parts" and see the seams between these sub-parts. If I want to see these lines, I actually have to create multiple parts. Thanks to all!

john_mcclary

Extrude them using "New"

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/28050bca2b1ddeb0acbab720/w/72369ffa7faabbf84de28ab1/e/f440cf9f994d3c0a115bfd07

owen_sparks

Also @Jake_Rosenfeld made a kick-ass featurescript that allows each sketch region to be extruded as separate part, all within a singe extrude feature.

Link to thread that talks about that and contains a link to the feature.

Cheers,

Owen S.

MBartlett21

@owen_sparks
I like the name of your link