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Sketch plane axis orientation
I am currently working on this part. The idea that I'm trying to make work is for the end of the gray part to be parallel to the face of the blue part as the angle of the blue part changes. I made a plane parallel to the blue part's face and drew the sketch on it. It looked good until the angle rotated past 135 degrees.…
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Custom Feature: Triad Transform
-Link to feature up front- Onshape's vanilla transform feature doesn't give you those nice buttery smooth rotation handles to play with like the assembly tabs do, which is a shame because some of the most aesthetically pleasing structures aren't confined to the bounds of XYZ coordinates. I mean look at these crystal…
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How to rotate a body along a Möbius strip?
Hi everyone, I'm trying to arrange a specific type of body along a Möbius strip in Onshape. However, when I use the pattern feature to distribute the body along the strip, the body does not rotate as it follows the path. I need the body to rotate correctly to match the twist of the Möbius strip, but I haven't been able to…
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Center of Rotation
In the image, I've selected a point, but when I try to rotate, just a small movement with the mouse and I'm off to disneyland. That's because I've zoomed in much. Can't I change the center of rotation, so that I rotate where I appear to be? I want to be inside the model, not a light year from the model with a telescope;).
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Problem: opPlane() with a rotated coordSystem creates a "non-rotated" plane
I'm trying to write a feature script that takes a curve and a point as parameters (among others), and creates a plane with the x-axis pointing in the direction of that curve's tangent at the given point. (The motivation is, I want to then manually draw a sketch on that plane that extends the curve in some way.) Everything…
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Alt+RmB style orbit on iOS
Hi, I was wondering if there's an equivalent to the Alt+RmB camera orbit/rotation in the iOS App version of OnShape. I've come from a Games Development background and the majority of our 3D packages seem to opt for the axis locked rotation versus OnShape's default free rotation. 99% of the time I'm rotating using Alt+RmB…
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How to align extruded parts to rotated part?
New to onshore so be gentle. I have a simple sketch with 3 parts. The first part is a full rotation on the right axis with a radius of 6mm. The 2nd and 3rd parts are extruded blind and pulled out to 6mm. When viewing the model the rotated part does not match up with the extruded parts, It is about 1.1mm larger than the…
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Rotate plane by degrees about an axis
I am trying to create a series of similar bodies in different different orientations. They are like fingers on a hand. I am able to create each finger currently, but am having some difficulty orienting them. I pass in a plane to the function that creates each finger, but then I have to rotate several features on each…
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Can't select faces to shell
Hi - I must be missing something obvious here, but perhaps someone can point me in the right direction. I create a sketch profile for a lampshade and rotate around a vertical axis. Next, I want to shell it, but although I can select faces to remove (basically the flat top and bottom) prior to the shell command, when the…