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Showing a Coordinate System/Origin in a Drawing

bradley_costabradley_costa Member Posts: 6 PRO
How do I show a coordinate system/origin in a drawing
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  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,310
    Create a sketch in your part studio and place a point at the origin, then insert the sketch into your drawing. 
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
  • bradley_costabradley_costa Member Posts: 6 PRO
    edited June 2018
    Id like to show the both the origin and the axis, with arrowheads.  Is there some quick way to do this?
  • john_mcclaryjohn_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 3,890 PRO
    Axis is shown in top right corner
  • robert_stilesrobert_stiles Member Posts: 89 PRO
    Hello, this is an old string, but is there anything better now? 
    We have pulled in loads of parts to an assembly, and make drawings from this, because we can explode parts.
    But we need a reference to the origin, or even one of the major TopFrontRight Planes to give a setting out dimensions from the corner of a room.
    We can't seem to use sketches @NeilCooke , because although we can insert sketches into assembly, inserting the assembly into a drawing does not bring the sketch in? At least, we can't work out how to turn this on. 
    Do I just make some dummy geometry and use this? Whats annoying about this is
    a:because there is no way to get an assembly to auto update new parts in the parts studio (this is so frustrating) We have to bring them in manually now the files are set up.
    b: We manually have to them out of many saved display states.
    c:we have to set up a l lot more duplicate display states because some drawings need the ref origin part in it, and some don't 
    We tried assembly mates, but these don't come through to drawings either. 
  • eric_pestyeric_pesty Member Posts: 1,461 PRO
    @robert_stiles
    Right click on the view in the drawing and select "show sketches"
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