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rei_jen
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Hi, I am currently a high school student and have being working on a little side project of mine. I discovered OnShape about a year ago, but I haven't started getting serious about it until recently. I am completely self taught and use public files as inspiration and design workarounds for my current project.
My project is building a Thrust Vector Control rocket and my CAD design currently includes the bottom mount. I finally settled on a design that I was satisfied with this summer.
My problems currently include the fact that I feel like I'm brute forcing everything. I had tried to watch videos before to help advance my skills but I lacked the attention span for those videos during that time.
I just want to know if there is currently, any specific skills I should pick that are necessary for me at this point to make my journey easier?
Currently, I'm having trouble finding an easy way to drill in screws at the side of the outer shell of the rocket body. Previously, I had done this by making a plane the same distance away to the radius of the outer circle to make holes or whatnot. I want to hear improvement
Thank you very much,
Rei
Answers
In the latter case, instead of using planes, you could also use mate connectors to locate holes for your screws. Easier to control and you could use variables to define the radial position together with the cylinder diameter of E.G. Part 6, so they always match.
With things circular, it might somtimes be a good idea to use a cross section sketch and then rotate it. It usually saves a lot of translate features, and you can create better relationships between the parts (E.G Offsets and such) because you can define their basic dimensions in either one common sketch or in separate sketches layered on to of each other, but still having dependencies.
@rei_jen I think you will find some clarity if you utilize folders in your feature tree. This will help organize your thoughts and design intent. So you can focus on specific areas or parts.
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