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jrs_spedley
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I have a project with many Part Studios and I tried to delete some of the older Parts, only to find 10 minutes later that I'd deleted a part used as a Derived part. I couldn't find any way to un-delete Parts but fortunately I had a backup.
Is there a way to view dependencies or which parts have no derived parts in them?
Is there a way to view dependencies or which parts have no derived parts in them?
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I was just wondering about "Where Used" references type of functionality similar to other systems as @jrs_spedley mentions myself.
@jrs_spedley Onshape keeps a record of every operation taken on a Document in the history manager:
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/docmanagement.htm
If you click the history button in your document, you can restore any point in history by right clicking on it (in this case, the point you want is the point before deleting the tabs in question)
When using Onshape, it should not be necessary to keep external backups.
suppress will cause the same dependency action as delete, but, you can bring them back easily.
Also, you never lose anything in OS, restore can come in handy.
To be honest, I'd version the design, then branch the version, then do all the delete stuff. If successful, I'd merge it back into main. This workflow is working well for me. It's a lot like GIT and the workflow is very similar but you have to perform the steps. It's not automatic.
I am designing a roof for an house extension and trying to keep it simple but incorporate certain features. It helps to be able to 'test' design ideas without altering the main drawing, often duplicating the design into several concurrent ideas where I can compare between them. As you can tell this can become messy but for short term development offers good flexibility.
https://www.onshape.com/videos/introducing-onshape-configurations
It will take some discipline to follow good parametric modeling practices, but if you do your finished design will be highly configurable.
Also take advantage of using variables!