tangent

So I ran into a problem where I am trying to sketch a rectangle that is tangent to a cylinder. The rectangle has normal rectangle constraints and is fully dimensioned. The lines are constrained to be vertical and one side is constrained to be tangent. The vertical lines show as black (fully defined) while the horizontal…

FeatureScript link I've been using SolidWorks a lot lately (not by choice) and one of the features I found that is nice is the Tangent option in the Filled Surface feature for when you're filling in patches in places where fillets leave sharp pinch points. Now, while the native Onshape Fill already does this, it's a PITA…

Hi all, I am designing a V10 engine and am currently doing the camshafts, but I am having trouble getting the tangent mates and revolute mate to work properly. At first I used a temporary block (about a quarter of the way down the cylinder head) to mark the tangent mates from and get it all to work, which it did fine. Then…

I am trying to generate an ellipse with a fixed minor axis length and a vertical major axis, the length of which can be solved so that the ellipse fulfills the following constraints: it is coincident with the first point of a spline, tangent to the spline in that point, and tangent to a circle in its outer (convex) side,…

I have a relatively simple surface (floor) and would like to "triangulate" it with a set of triangular parts (tiles). See porch+walk | walk last mile question I'd like to model this to see how big I can make the triangular tiles and still get a reasonable walking surface. I've been manually fastening these together and…

Has anyone ever managed to have one part mate tangentially in two positions? I have a plate with rollers moving along two tracks from one position to another and this should work, but Onshape thinks that i am over defining the assembly, which i am not. If i remove one of the tangent propagation options on either mate, it…

I'm trying to place a plane consistently on multiple types of faces to use in a transform. I can get a plane that is normal to the selected face, but I keep getting stuck. The plane needs the following conditions: * Origin: middle of selected curve/edge. * Normal: same direction as curve/edge. * X-axis: always facing…

Hi! I'm trying to mate between a sphere ball and a rounded sphere groove in a cylinder in a way such that the ball would slide only within the groove. Both the ball and the groove have the same radius. I tired to use the tangent mate, but it does not do the work (I'm not sure why). It seems there is some overlap between…

I'm currently learning how to sketch in FeatureScript. I want to know if there's a way to sketch with constraints before using skSolve. For example if I want to make a tangent arc with its two end points coincident to two end points of a pair of parallel lines. The arc has to be tangent with both lines. Is there an easy…

if a line has a tangent constraint to a circle, is it necessary for the endpoint of the line to also have a coincident constraint with the tangent circle? working on master sketch of lesson 4, I find that if I delete the coincident constraint on the endpoint of the line, that point becomes blue ... adding the coincident…

In theory just 2 tangent mates should do it: cylindrical surface of cylinder to each conical surface forming the V-groove. I wasn't the least bit surprised Onshape had problems with this approach given the complexity of converging to a solution. I attempted to simplify the problem by first using a Planer mate to center the…

Perhaps this is an easier question than my previous one, as well as being better described. Again on my camera mount: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f5e8fcbad57136b903546cf6/w/f040dc06b25df32d39bb5f4d/e/62cc5d76096fe96e5592a60e When I try to make a tangent mate between the lower bearing that rides on the pin slot and…