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Blank Templates
jason_nicholas_jths
Member Posts: 6 EDU
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Hello. I teach high school CAD. I would like to create a blank drawing sheet template that my students can use for exporting for laser cutting.
How can I create a blank template that would automatically show up for my students as a template choice when they create drawings (similar to the standard sizes A, B, C… that appear for selection choices).
We are using Onshape Enterprise.
Any feedback is helpful.
Thank you kindly.
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Are you aware that you can right click on the face of a part and select export DXF/DWG from the resulting drop down?
If you want to do more than just export faces of parts, I suggest the workflow you are describing. That is what I did with my Enterprise. We had a laser cutter with a 600 mm x 300 mm bed, so I made a blank template that size with all edges set to 0.13mm thick and red for cutting. I think I had to share the template with the "all enterprise users" team before everyone could see it.
Yes, that's what I also do. The fact that it is possible to move drawing views to another sheet, helps a lot in this scenario. When I create a drawing of a part that is to be laser cut, I create one extra view of only the laser contour and move that one over to the laser template sheet(s). Even if the nesting is then manual (by moving the views around on the sheet), it lets me keep the complete laser cut layouts with the model, easy to identify and always updated on design changes, which I appreciate very much over loose exported files agglomerating in some forgotten directory. It is also easy to apply logos.
When a laser cut is due to be done, I just export the whole laser layout sheet as SVG, which my laser reads directly.
… in theory. There is only one issue I have with this: Onshape always places a rectangle around the sheet borders, which I cannot seeem to get rid off, other than by opening it in an SVG editor and delete it there. Has anybody fount a solution for that?