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  • Designing Around Third-party Assemblies

    I am a new OS user and I'm trying to figure out how to migrate my processes from Solidworks. One thing that I miss is editing parts within the context of an assembly. I know that it is being investigated and that the current suggestion is to model everything in a parts studio. This works well in most cases, however, I…

  • Feature recognition

    Hi Onshapers, I'm looking to make some mods to a component that has been imported from a STEP file. Is there a feature recognition tool / import option as using the direct editing tools on lots of holes is tedious? Alternatively is there scope for feature recognition if the component is imported in a native CAD format such…

  • Where is my imported model

    When I first tried importing a step model, it shows properly with 2 tabs created: 1 as a list and 1 is the model tab. But somehow now after I import a model I only see the tab that lists the model file but the tab for real model is not shown, even though the translation went through okay, why?

  • importing files

    I'm wondering what types of files can be imported into onshape for editing? I would love to be able to take something from a place like thingaverse and edit it here to 3D print. Thanks!

  • import solidworks files on onshape

    Hi! I try to put my solidworks files on onshape, but I have the error "translation failed" With solidworks (2013 and 2015) I created the zip files with the function pack and go. I follow this video but it does work with me. Do you have some solution? Best, 

  • Opening Inventor Part Files

    I am having trouble viewing *.ipt files. According to the help information, Inventor files should be supported. When I open the file however, I see the normal CAD window but without anything in it (i.e. just the origin marker is present). Is there something I need to do in order to view these files?