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How to use Leo AI in Onshape - is it used within Onshape Canvas or how to use it while designing?
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Part mirroring generating too many sheet metal bends
First time Onshape user (with very limited CAD experience) here encountering a problem. I've modelled a speaker stand which surprisingly turned out exactly how I envisioned it. However when I enter the 'sheet metal table and flat view' there are more bends than there ought to be. I designed one foot with a slot running the…
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Custom Feature: Pulleys with custom tooth profiles
BackstorySome months back I ran into some challenges with the standard OnShape tooling when it came to modelling a belt and set of pulleys. I took to the forum for help, where I was pointed to a series of custom FeatureScript solutions. Namely: This parts studio with a custom belt (though the pitch is wrong). I liked the…
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Custom Feature: Heat Set Insert (Threaded inserts for 3D Printed Parts)
Custom Feature: Heat Set Insert I wanted to learn FeatureScript, so I created a new custom feature to place cavities for heat set inserts into 3d Printed parts quickly and easily. I have been really happy with it and have found that it really speeds up my designs, so I wanted to share it out! Right now, it includes…
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How to easily add spacing for a glue layer after designing a large and complex model
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Onshape Glassworks API
Hello, My name is Gage I am looking for help with a project I am working on. I am trying to essantially search my assembly for all sheet metal parts, check those sheet metal parts size and then export those sheet metal parts as DXFs. The problem I am running into is that I can do that in a part studio but once I try to do…
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How to easily add spacing for a glue layer after designing a large and complex model
Hi All, I am just facing a huge issue that I didn't account for. I am using Onshape to design a motorhome habitat box and I designed everything without considering a significant glue layer. I'm just in the process of verifying my dimensions before creating manufacturing drawings and I read this note in the glue specs that…
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Improvements to Onshape - July 17, 2026
This month’s release introduces several time-saving enhancements across modeling, drawings, and data management, designed to improve clarity and accelerate your product development workflow. ONSHAPE LABS Onshape Labs is a new initiative for rapidly developing and testing cutting-edge capabilities, including AI-driven…
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New FeatureScript: Plastic Threads
Hi everyone, I've recently been messing around with FeatureScript and decided to make a thread feature for 3D-printed plastic parts. The general concept came from the ThreadCreator script written by David Cowden almost 8 years ago. His script works really well and has even more configurability than mine but I wanted to tap…
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New Custom Tool : SVG to Sketch
Hey all — long-time Onshape user, wanted to share something I've been building and using in production. The problem: Getting vector artwork (logos, cutout profiles, panel designs, icons) into Onshape as real, editable sketch geometry is annoying. DXF import can be inconsistent, and manually retracing SVGs with the sketch…
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AI generated FeatureScript for a modular kitchen cabinet designer based on IKEA dimensions.
I always wanted to play with some featurescript and found Claude is really good at generating it. All of this started with me wanting to design our new kitchen with Onshape. I realized I don't want to recreate each cabinet so I asked Claude to go find all the dimensions and variants of IKEA kitchens and it found the IKEA…
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New FS Published: Stud Wall
I've been working on Stud Wall for a while and it feels pretty stable now. I had some assistance from Claude in the code, and it wrote the full User Guide (thank you @GregBrown for giving me the idea to ask AI to do that part). I'll soon publish Sheathe and a console-output version of Lumber List. I also have Door almost…
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QuakeIIIArena bit-hack code written in featurescript
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/29e6ce5316fbadb2fa98702b/w/61d5a536b165313813af25ac/e/32631c72aee224385208e1ac FeatureScript 3029; import(path : "onshape/std/common.fs", version : "3029.0"); const TWO_23 = 8388608; // 2^23 const TWO_31 = 2147483648; // 2^31 const BIAS = 127; const MAGIC = 1597463007; // 0x5f3759df…
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how do i model bends for a spline.
i need this to have dimensions of the roll but it is a spline sketch so how do i make the dimentions of the roll in a sheet metal part?
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where do I begin?
I have an idea to build a kinetic wave driven sea water Desalinization station. useing the kinetic motion of waves to produce both driving of the gear mechanisim and pumping of clean water to storrage. the portion that is submerged needs to be robust enough to survive extended periods in sea water so i think stainless…
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Fillet in the wrong direction
for some reason the fillet is in the wrong direction on the right of the image left side works find and will generate the correct fillet if the right side isn't selected… what is wrong?
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CAD Challenges App
Hey educators! You may have seen this post yesterday about our new CAD Challenges app. I just wanted to highlight the app specifically for this community. We hope it will be usefull as a fun way for students to practice their modeling skills. What @ian_d_gardiner calls "CAD calisthenics." Specifically, the app challenges…
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Pasting a custom properties table from excel
When I google this, a few videos come up showing how to paste a table into a drawing sheet. the table seems to paste like it is in Excel. I am not able to replicate that quite as elegantly. I get a much bigger table and it is really hard to edit it. data is center-aligned , font and table spacing is too big. I cant even…
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Could someone please help diagnose how a guiding line to my loft is not connected to a profile? 😭😭
I have been trying to create guidelines for the shape of my winglet and when lofting the 1st part of the winglet I get the issue that one of the guidelines is not connected to one of the profiles. I have been getting it quite a few times but in these cases the disconnect was pretty noticeable so I could tell how to join…
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Most usefull FeatureScripts.
Hi, I am lazy to search through this discussion so its there any table (summarize) of all usefull feturescripts . Just not to start the same work twice… THX Petr
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3D Scan Alignment
Hi all, I have a 3D scan of a 1/48 scale model aircraft fuselage - image attached. This is my first time working with a mesh. I want to split it vertically into two halves along its length and reorient it such that the nose is centred on the origin and the centre split faces are on the Right plane with its length running…
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how do i begin ( where is the CAD program?
so I have been looking arund clicking on tabs and asking questions to the best of my ablility is there more do i just wait until someone gets back to me? what are "Tags"….the line below this box right here . . . .🙃⤵️⬇️
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How do you make plain/printed text on a surface (no extrusion)?
I have sketched text on a surface and just want it to appear as printed black text on a surface without any extrusion or other feature. How can I best go about this?
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Where can I find Engineering drawings to practice?
I have been active in the CAD field for about a year now, and I have been somewhat successful in creating the models I have envisioned. But I have been searching for some industry level engineering drawings online so that I can practice my "drawing reading skills". I found a book that has a lot of the parts, but I have…
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Thread runout
Hi, I made a 33-400 thread on a neck. This is for a plastic bottle. Now I need to make a thread runout at the start and finish. Can somebody help with this?
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Two Manufacturing FeatureScripts: Automatic Laser Overcuts & Extended Slots _ Custom Features
Full disclosure - I'm a fixture / tooling designer, not a software developer. I iterated a custom FS last year using AI. I started with the CNC overcut feature that Hendrik_Kueck posted here in 2023 but for my work flow, what I really wanted was an overcut feature specifically for a Laser. To that end - I wanted the…
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problem with assembly introduction lesson
I am trying to complete the Onshape Assembly Basics found on https://learn.onshape.com/learn/article/assembly-introduction-lesson. But within the finale exercise (Extra Practice: assembly practice 4), I get immediately the following: Cylinder <1> has error: Failed to resolve instance. This part cannot be used therefore.…
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Creating a structural transition in a model help
Link to Model: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/56ff3e5b449d7c379bfd0062/w/5e5285cd916e223ea1a335be/e/ae26c0746ffba65ea08866a4 Looking for assistance completing this model. I'm having an issue figuring out how to join the angled walls of the drain ramp to the main circular body. Ideally the walls would follow the circular…
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Using configurations in variable studios
I was led to a trap. I kind of assumed I could have a variable studio drive several Part Studios and that I could later make configurations of the variable studio. Then I discovered to make configs I have to disable this Insert into all Part Studio feature. For example. I have document I am trying to show the state between…
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Two problems when it comes to fitting parts together for my Wing
I am trying to design a wing and currently I have designed an Aileron and I want to fit it into my wing and rotate it using Assembly. My first problem is trying to properly fit the Aileron rod/hinge into the wing with assembly. Since the Wing is tapered, the hole I designed is also tapered to follow the direction of the…