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3D Sketching??
frank_otuo_mensah
Member Posts: 9 EDU
Hi All
I wanted to know if there is a tool in Onshape that allows you to do 3D Sketching, such as in Solidworks you can use the 3D Sketch tool to draw lines in the Z direction/axis ??
I wanted to know if there is a tool in Onshape that allows you to do 3D Sketching, such as in Solidworks you can use the 3D Sketch tool to draw lines in the Z direction/axis ??
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I am just following a tutorial to model a Caterpillar.. I know you can use the Sweep feature to follow a curve but the problem I am facing is which plane to draw the curve on?
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/38b5d742597990ccf1222c98/w/749cbebc9217cb71daddcb6a/e/33d938b281b5018bd737fcfa
I've found 3D sketches to be pretty cantankerous and prone to rapid unscheduled disassembly in Autodesk Inventor (though that might just be me not having spent enough time learning their ins and outs), so I generally prefer working with 2D-sketch-based workflows. In Onshape's case, it's pretty easy to make mate connectors to define sketch planes on-the-fly, so I feel like the tradeoff of slightly lower speed is worth the more robust end result that rebuilds more consistently.
Hope this helped!
That really helps!! Many thanks.
I love this community!!
that is a revelation for me. Thanks for the example of '3D sketching' Onshape style! I like and will use several of the methods you have here.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a964344bd82715630af3dde8/w/bdaf2e49ef4c2833b4178389/e/cf1c0f3cff589bbc93582dcc
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/7dc2d97f9d87a737d62f3534/w/9efae14dea7e794d00b0526b/e/61305029cba9d993ef98f8b2
Onshape needs to come up with a 3D sketch option so that we can all walk away from the other CAD freely.