Why doesn't Onshape support sketch blocks or sketch scaling?

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  • martin_kopplow
    martin_kopplow Member Posts: 1,642 PRO

    Hmmmm …. I don't actually miss sketch blocks too much. What I miss more is a more performant sketch patterning, sketch copying and sketch mirroring, maybe sketch instancing. Sketches could use a little bit more parametrics.

  • ry_gb
    ry_gb Member, csevp, pcbaevp Posts: 273 PRO

    Imported DXF's for graphics and logos is one area where Sketch Blocks should be the norm. There are instances where I've imported graphics I created from Illustrator and then had to follow a weird workaround to be able to scale the graphics in a parametric way (Import→Extrude→Derive→Transform). Imported DXF's in Onshape are very user-unfriendly and the scaling tool inside of the sketch solver is not parametric.

    Ramon Yip | glassboard.com

  • hoolito
    hoolito Member Posts: 55 PRO

    https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/125832#Comment_125832

    I'm at your same spot in my setup of Onshape. I have a bunch of tolerance table for several ISO standards (some including nifty drawings inside, like the ones for extrusion profiles). And I find the current capabilities of Onshape very limited (In Siemens NX I just dragged them from a side panel…)

    I'm trying to find the best workflow and I'm half-way, maybe the community can help:

    I'm trying to follow Eric Pesty's advice: Make a document with your tables in DXF (Which could be exported from Sketches in a PS). If these DXFs have diagonal line, the leftmost-bottom extreme point will be point imported in your drawing at zero,zero. So it will be positioned exactly at least in your most used drawing format.

    The thing is: you can't define text in the Part Studio, because text in sketches have a bounding box, and they don't have a fill either.

    So I'm thinking of getting a license of Ares Kudo to to access the editing capabilities and finalize the DXF with it, with text and all…….. Did anybody think of that, done it before?

  • hoolito
    hoolito Member Posts: 55 PRO

    Ok I avoided DXF editing in Onshape via Ares by making my tolerance tables in Affinity Designer.
    You can then use any font you like and it'll export to DXF as solid hatches.
    If you register it at 0,0 it works, with the caveat that you can't drag the text around if the table was not made for that specific drawing format size. (I have to make one DXF for each format size)
    I'll report it as a bug…

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