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Industrial Designer / Automotive Prototype Developer
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Re: Why doesn't Onshape support sketch blocks or sketch scaling?
There is one point in time when a sketch can be scaled easily by just defining a single reference dimension: When it is imported (from DXF). So, If I need a scaled sketch (for whatever reason, after … (View Post)1 -
Re: Modeling ACM (aluminum composite material) in Onshape
@elijahpekaar Yes, as long as all your V-grooves will be on the back side, that'll work as @S1mon pointed out: Only model the outer aluminium layer as sheet metal and unfold. (View Post)1 -
Re: CAD Battle #1 - January 2026 (Best of the Worst Competition)
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/125745#Comment_125745 Yeah, nice ugly primitive approach, may I say. Such things are seen in the wild more often than one might think! :0) (View Post)1 -
Re: How to wrape a pipe around a 90 degree corner at a slight angle
May the two straight tubes be in a common (inclined) plane? Then just create the plane and model the tubes and corner in that plane. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8f382d01638f5e77eeca4405/w/7236d… (View Post)1 -
Re: CAD Battle #1 - January 2026 (Best of the Worst Competition)
@Derek_Van_Allen_BD wrote: " Riddle the feature tree with broken features and references and instead of fixing them, just patch them up with more features and references. " Hey, make no jok… (View Post)2
