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Re: How does identity work?
The primary thing that Onshape will use to identify a selected entity is the "id" passed into the operation that creates it. You can read a more detailed explanation in a past comment here. To sum it up briefly: When you select an entity, Onshape generates a query for that entity. That query might look like "the face… -
Re: Significant difficulties transitioning from NX
Thanks for the video. Overall, yes, onshape doesn't have a clear bottom-up or top-down workflow. It can function really well in either way (or even some hybrid). One of the challenges with onshape's learning curve is understanding all the different options and when to use each. As an alternative to the Wave links, have you… -
Re: Hollowing out a convoluted cylinder
Hi @tj_thorniley ! You may find this page helpful: https://www.onshape.com/videos I'm not very good at making videos (my main role here at Onshape is as a programmer). We try to discourage making threads in general ( @owen_sparks had a great post on the end of this chain about how adding threads made his model >100x more… -
Re: Cad went back to basement?
I'm in a similar but less developed position, and am also interested in what others think. I'm the first Pro user in our Production Engineering Department with a further 3 users on the ex free plan with the aim of building up the process and investing in more seats as we get more proficient and demonstrate to our… -
Re: Editing feature definitions in a body after it has been scaled
@christian_campbell YOU SAID — I propose that whenever you scale a body/part, Onshape automatically scales the feature definitions too. Onshape can do that. Use a variable, or a number of variables, to do your scaling. You can use one variable to scale your entire part. Or, you can use a variable to scale along the X,… -
Some more observations
Thought I would try to use Onshape tonight to model up something that we had an enquiry about on Friday afternoon - so consider this a live job of what I would likely use Onshape for in its current form - modelling up something that has been mulling in my head for a day or so, just to see if it is actually viable. Bear in… -
24 Hours of Fusion later...
I've been a longtime (happy) user of Onshape. Recently I decided to give Fusion a serious try to see how much pain the integrated CAM, Eagle connector, and FEA could save me. I'm a semi-hobbyist one-man-band doing everything from PCB layout to machining parts so the idea of a set of tools that are tightly connected is… -
Bodies define geometry, entities are the instantiation of bodies !?!?
Over the past couple days of learning the basics of FS I kept writing queries that didn't work. They made sense to my mental model of the dataset I was querying on... but obviously I was wrong so I would scratch my head, form a new model that kind of incorporates the new info and continue. Fail & repeat this cycle a few… -
Re: New Feature: Freeform Spline
@Evan_Reese Very cool update. I think you've already won the Featurescript contest. I'm looking forward to the Control Point mode having G1/G2/G3 constraints. I haven't begun to look at your code yet, but as you probably know, you could copy/learn a lot from Bridging Curve to get G1/G2 constraints. One thing that has been… -
Re: How to get a series data from measurement?
As mentioned above, a great approach will be to have a part studio where there are sketch(es) that create the layout that drives the motion. In fact I've been working on a methodology I'll share the bare bones of here for precisely the same use case... (This is a way, not the way to do it.) I have a sketch that is nicely…
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