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Tabs & Slots
mohamad_dawood
Member Posts: 2 ✭
Greetings
Before starting with Onshape , i was using Solidworks for wood laser cutting and wood box making , and i miss a very important feature , that is "Tabs & Slots"
which create finger joints between objects or sheets of metal/wood , it's too essential for wood working to be ignored , and doing this process manually is very time consuming ,
Solidworks introduced this feature in 2018 , and no other CAD software has it natively , NX , Inventor nor Fusion has this feature , i hope it gets added to Onshape , would be very helpful for everyone doing sheet metal/woodworking via Onshape , and would help me make the full transition from Solidworks to Onshape ,there is a several public features that tries to replicate this feature , but they are either buggy , or too basic , i hope this feature gets supported natively
here is a link to the feature explained in details :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCfQK-WfT-M
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https://cad.onshape.com/documents/578830e4e4b0e65410f9c34e/v/75269c4a1a5ece98be1e2b6f/e/7af109b2f1cead90850525ae
@mohamad_dawood I had the same barrier to entry when I made the transition from Solidworks and found the same issues with the existing tab and slot features that people had developed. Love that laser joint script, except it doesn't work on sheet metal parts which is disqualifying for my workflows. Also none of the public solutions work on curved edges. I worked with @Caden_Armstrong to custom develop a sheet metal version of tab and slot for our company, but there are some small things that don't work the same was as it does in Solidworks that I'm now going back and refactoring to get better stability and patterning features to make it work more like expected. Should be publishing it here in the next week or two when I'm done with the rewrite.