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Uploading 3 files into a single 'thing'
buk_browseruk054
Member Posts: 8 ✭
I have 3 parasolid files that are all part of the same assembly, and I wish to upload them into a single workspace.
I've read this: https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/Primer/importing_and_editing.htm it did not help.
I've uploaded the 3 files and tried various combinations of the offered options, but they always end up as 3 seperate 'things'; not as a singl' 'thing'.
How can I get them all in the same 'thing'.
(I'm using the word 'thing' here, because the normal words I would use 'file', 'document', 'drawing', 'assembly' all seem to have different meanings here from those I am familiar with.)
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Can you describe it in terms of your last CAD system?
I think better with analogies, here is how I understand what the things in Onshape are compared to SolidWorks for example:
Onshape : SolidWorks
Document: : Project Folder
Assembly : Assembly File *.sldasm
PartStudio : MultiBody Part File *.sldprt
Part : Body *Think of it like a body in SW but each Body is automatically treated as its own *.sldprt file without any additional exporting.
Drawing : Drawing *.slddrw
Sketch : Sketch
Mate Connector : Origin, Coordinate System, Axis, Plane, Point, (Selected Mate Reference geometry)
Fastened Mate : Lock Mate, or profile mate
Revolute Mate : Combination of (1) coincedent mate and (1) concentric mate
Slider Mate : Combination of any two mates that only allow only a sliding motion without twisting
Planer Mate : Coincident Mate
Cylindrical Mate : concentric Mate
Pin Slot Mate : Combination of any two mates that allow for sliding on X axis and allowing rotation on Z axis
Ball Mate : coincident mate which uses two points for input
Parallel Mate : Parallel Mate
Tangent Mate : Tangent Mate
Group Mate : Yea you wish...
Replicate : Copy With mates / Pattern driven component pattern
Version : SaveAs
Branch : Pack and Go
Merge Branch : Two monitors and 6 pack of beer
Comments : Email
Let me know if there are any other comparisons I could make, this could go on for a while, and is fun to think about...
So what Neil is describing is like taking a bunch of part files, deriving them into a separate part file if we want to talk like SolidWorks
Thanks.