I watched half a dozen tutorials tonight trying to figure out how to get started. After two hours of watching this while working I was able to create the simple object I needed for a project. Thank you so much. First time creating in 3d, I'm hooked.
I love that I found your channel. I've been using SketchUp for years and now SketchUp for schools. We have Fusion 360, but have had issues with installations at school. I had OnShape suggested to me a few years back, and now thanks to your videos, I am going to explore it with more vigor.
I cannot adequately express how pleased I am that you're doing this. I've been desperate for a good tutorial series on CAD design for 3d printing, and have recently been investing a lot of time in Fusion tutorials. Thank you so much for making these tutorials. I cannot wait to watch the rest of them, and am excited to start with Onshape. You are an absolute gem in this community. From one teacher to another (though I'm a band teacher :p), you are a master of your craft. I hope you feel pride in the quality of work that you do.
What's great is there are self-paced courses on Onshape's learning center. Not only do they go through the lesson, they have a "quiz" where they give you the step by step with good document habits then ask for the volume of your object to check to see if you got it right. There have been times where I didn't get it went back focused on what troubled me then re-tested.
Excellent tutorial! This is just what I needed to get bootstrapped in 3D design for 3D printing. Looking forward to continuing the series. Thank you very much!
Exactly what I was looking for right when I need it. I'm embarking on 3d printing some custom carbon fibre pipe adapters for a Starlink mount, and was looking for a free CAD solution to do it with. Your quick rundown and intro to Onshape was exactly the guidance I was hoping to find... thanks very much! On that note, feel free to dig into how to handle elements (ribs/splines/voids) equally spaced around a ring every X degrees, if you want.
Wow, that was a world wind tutorial. You go so fast that keeping up, as a beginner user, is impossible without spending most of the time rewinding, often several times. I do think you have the best tutorial series on RUclips that I have found thus far, not to mention the most recent, but its a challenge...
You make really useful/helpful training sessions for OnShape. Thank you! My favorite part of this video was when you had drawn a rough estimate of the tool holder on a piece of paper and then showed rotating/aligning it to virtual 3D planes IRL. LMAO...I was chuckling all morning over that!
Thanks for this Onshape series. I'm a Fusion guy but it never hurts to learn more things in life so I've created an account and started following along.
Thank you very much Michael, if i didn't follow this video i was probably still using the damn tinkercad. You made me realize there are usable and simple cad editors out there. Got my first item made from scratch, and it fits perfectly. This kind of content is what i love about your video's, helping people out of their 3d printing frustrations. Big thumbs up from me, i love it!
Thank you for this tutorial series. I don't, yet, own a 3D printer but I use your lessons to design new desk leg mounts/spacers for the custom desk I built earlier this year. Once I have a printer, I look forward to seeing my creation made real. I have a couple of other design ideas for some things around the house. Excited at the possibilities you've opened up for me with these lessons.
As someone who is getting into 3D printing, this video was a great beginner guide to understanding how Onshape work and how I can use it to create my own custom things instead of just downloading other people's stls.
really Appreciate that! I downloaded onshape yesterday and spent a little bit messing around and going through the self paced lessons. I think with the help that they have on there and your videos I should be able to achieve my goal. thank you!
I am not the best English listener and i found this video really help. You made this video very simple but it took me few try to get what you were showing in the video. over all i need to rewatch few more to get more understanding. again thank you SO MUCH!
Very well explained and detailed, great tutorial to get people started. I really like when tutorials are about practical usable things instead of some theoretical geometric thing. Well done. Looking forward to seeing the next one
Even though I use Fusion 360 and have gradually built my knowledge, I still learned something from this tutorial (namely the difference between blue and black sketch lines). Thumbs up from me.
great video I have been trying to learn 360 to build a model pain rack that hangs on the wall but with your tutorial I think I will be changing programs thank you
Fantastic, I've been looking for a cad tutorial series in easy to follow language and it looks like yours will be just perfect. I very much appreciate the time your putting into this :)
Thanks for this series! I’m planning on finally getting a 3D printer this coming Christmas…so starting now on learning design so I am ready when I get my Bambu Labs machine. Going to suck a little not being able to actually print any…but should give me a good head start.
hahahahahahaha I am laughing because Michael makes me smile. He shows in a clear, concise and relaxed way how to use Onshape. With most tuts, I am yawning halfway through but in Michaels, my smile just gets bigger and bigger, "I can do this!" Thank you, Sir
Michael, that was another very clear and well-explained tutorial! I am excited to get busy learning Onshape. Can you please do a video telling us how one would create toolpaths for a CNC router after designing a 3D object to be carved out of wood?
TinkerCAD has been my go to for quick projects, but this interface, and your tutorial, has me already signing up for Onshape. I move between laser cutting, 3D FDM and resin, and now getting into CNC. This looks promising. Your natural pacing and multiple ways to do an effect lends confidence. Good job!
Great tutorial as always. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. If you are looking for suggestions, how about a tutorial on how to design fasteners in OnShape (different ways to connect pieces together)? Thank you again for the great content.
I use Fusion 360 and decided to try Onshape. After using it for a couple of days I can tell it's an amazing tool! In most use cases I like it more than Fusion, but it has a huge drawback - the extrusion always starts from the sketch plane. There are some ugly tricks/workarounds to overcome this in some cases, but in Fusion you can simply select the starting object (face, edge, point, anything).
But in OnShape, can't you make your sketch co-planar with any face on the existing object? And doesn't the extrusion occur normal to the sketch's plane? I might not completely understand your concern, not being an OnShape user. Maybe you could elaborate on a precise example scenario that doesn't work in OnShape but does in Fusion 360.
@@harvey66616 The simplest example is a sketch with two concentric circles. I extrude the outer circle from the sketch plane and get the first cylinder. Then I want to extrude the inner circle on top of the first cylinder, but I cannot select its top face as the starting point - Onshape just doesn't have such a concept as starting point for extrusion. For this simple case I can get what I want with a bidirectional extrude, but this is very confusing and mind breaking operation compared to the simple selecting of the starting plane in Fusion.
FreeCAD equips you with all the right tools for your needs. You get modern Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools, experimental CFD, dedicated BIM, Geodata or CAM/CNC workbenches, a robot simulation module that allows you to study robot movements and many more features. FreeCAD really is a Swiss Army knife of general-purpose engineering toolkits.
Test prints are definitely a good thing to do to make sure things fit properly, though I probably would've made this out of a single sketch instead of 2 I wonder if Fusion has those sketch lines, I don't think I've seen them in it before 🤔 (tho I usually just use the normal lines to accomplish the same thing, albeit with a bit more clicking for the extrudes sometimes)
Thinking about how you spaced out the holes for the screwdrivers, I can see how spacing them "by eye" and then manually entering constraints for the centers is pretty simple for something ad hoc. Doing a smaller test print to test out spacing is a great idea. But if you needed more precision in the spacing, is there an alternative? For example, suppose you want to ensure there is a certain minimum space between the handles, and between the outer handles and the edge of the tool holder, is there a similarly simple way to express that constraint? Could you perhaps make the construction circles wider than the actual handles, and then constrain them so that the edges of those circles just touch each other and the edge of the tool holder? Or could you add a constraint of a specific distance between the circles (and additional constraints from the edges)?
I am still wary of cloud based stuff, but I did give onshape a try and I do really like its interface. I'll have to give it a try for some stuff here and there... I used Fusion for a long time but now I'm mostly on linux and even more importantly onshape isn't autodesk, sooo
Love these latest videos. While I understand designing for the 3D printer, That becomes a nightmare when you're modifying an existing object (car interior part) and that itself has certain requirements you can NOT deviat from. I dunno if it's because I'm a newb/novice, but can't print it via my Prusa Mini... Supports really suck.
Hi, great video. But Onshape has changed the sketch toolbar, and I cannot find the rectangle button in your video (it is a bit like tripping over at the first hurdle). Update: I opened the Onshape help file and located the Sketch help and followed their steps and the correct toolbar showed up with a bit of random button pushing. It seems several things need to be "aligned" before the duck quacks. The next step is to rinse and repeat until it becomes clear what the help instructions mean.
can you use ONShape for designing / creating aluminum molds for CNC and plastic injection? i'm ready to move on to a program that offers more customization
the "Construction" tool doesn't seem to work the same way as I see at 4:49... I've started from scratch and followed your steps exactly 3 times now, but I cannot get a construction line along the center of the length of the rectangle. I understand this video is not new, but most of the OnShape UI still looks the same.. so does anybody perhaps know how to achieve this in the current version?
Great tutorial series thank you. I did get a printer for this reason. I did a bit of 3d modeling a long time ago but found CAD software to be very different. I tried Fusion 360 coz there's a very extensive tutorial op YT but since its a few years out of date I spent too much time trying to find the equivalent functions mentioned in the tutorials. That was about 12 months ago and Id kind of given up on it so I'm really glad you've started this series. Cheers.
Around 7:44 in the video you say "we can see everything is black". How did you make the circles turn black instead of blue? I re watched that part five times already and cannot figure out what exactly you did there.
I love you videoes. but any chance you can show how to build a rowboat that is almost build like a viking ship. with both ends higher then the middel one. and have a thiknes of the rowboat like 1.4mm think . lenght of the rowboat shoul be like 90 mm. hight of the rowboat 30mm on both sides but middle 15mm and with of the rowboat should be 30mm. i tryed in tinkercad and that i cant do it in. so now i like to lean it in Onshape
I'm following along but I'm not seeing the same thing on my screen. After creating a document I see no planes like in this video and no view cube in the right upper corner. When I click on sketch the word "sketch 1" doesn't appear on the screen nor does that blue outline. I tried using the rectangle tool and it does nothing. Not sure what's going on, maybe a browser issue?
I'm at the part where I'm adding mounting bosses and having trouble duplicating the same thing on the other side... I can't figure out how to reference the extrude depth I did to cut out the the clearance hole on the first one. Can't figure out an easy way to measure it... Any help please? Thank you!
I need help :| After putting all the circles and setting the distance dimensions my circles are still blue, I think its because my construction line is off-center but idk how to fix it!
Can we sketch on a canvas like fusion 360. I haven't had time to mess with it yet to see myself. But I make replacement parts a lot for things and use the canvas on 360 to help my sketching. But hate the workflow on it, onshape looks to be more natural at least to me.
I appreciate you doing this as I'm just now starting 3D printing and designing. I am having difficulty with the model, though. For some reason, when I add the dimension of 19mm between the third and fourth hole, the final edge of the box becomes constrained. Then, when I add the final dimension of 9mm, everything turns red, and I receive an error message saying that the "sketch could not be solved." I'm at a loss on what to do, as I've repeated the exercise three times, and this keeps happening. I've researched how to remove constraints from a model, but nothing I've tried seems to work. Any thoughts on solving this issue are appreciated. Thanks again for doing this series.
Hey there. I have the same issue. Did you figure out how to solve that ? Edit: My bad, figured it out 2mn later. If anyone finds the same comment and has that issue, my issue was a constaint between the center of a circle and the center of the rectangle.
Thank you for starting this series! I tried exporting a part to STL for printing, but when I opened the file in Cura, it was a fraction of the size of the part in OnShape. Any ideas on what happened and how to fix it?
i don't see any other comments about it, so maybe i'm an idiot for asking, but here's my question... you don't explain the Use Tool at all. you just say, i'm going to use this tool, and then skip straight over to adding the holes. i didn't use the Use Tool, and yet my new sketch still added itself onto the other part exactly like yours. i just drew three lines and it would appear to have worked exactly the same, so i'm not at all sure what it's for. i read the onshape help page for Use, but it did not help at all. it does however make perfect sense when you show the second mounting example. it allows you to translate the angled area into the plane of the front. so what use was it on the first mounting method?
I can't understand the concept of the "constraint" tool. How should I proceed when, for some reason, I cannot make a geometry constrained, because often, no matter when I use "dimension", the lines remain blue. Alguem pode ajudar?
Once a teacher, always a teacher! Organized so it was easy to follow but still glad of the replay function and 2 screens.
I watched half a dozen tutorials tonight trying to figure out how to get started. After two hours of watching this while working I was able to create the simple object I needed for a project. Thank you so much. First time creating in 3d, I'm hooked.
I love that I found your channel.
I've been using SketchUp for years and now SketchUp for schools. We have Fusion 360, but have had issues with installations at school. I had OnShape suggested to me a few years back, and now thanks to your videos, I am going to explore it with more vigor.
I cannot adequately express how pleased I am that you're doing this. I've been desperate for a good tutorial series on CAD design for 3d printing, and have recently been investing a lot of time in Fusion tutorials.
Thank you so much for making these tutorials. I cannot wait to watch the rest of them, and am excited to start with Onshape. You are an absolute gem in this community. From one teacher to another (though I'm a band teacher :p), you are a master of your craft. I hope you feel pride in the quality of work that you do.
What's great is there are self-paced courses on Onshape's learning center. Not only do they go through the lesson, they have a "quiz" where they give you the step by step with good document habits then ask for the volume of your object to check to see if you got it right. There have been times where I didn't get it went back focused on what troubled me then re-tested.
Excellent tutorial! This is just what I needed to get bootstrapped in 3D design for 3D printing. Looking forward to continuing the series. Thank you very much!
Out of all the tutorials, your approach is so much easier to understand. In love with your channel, bro!
Exactly what I was looking for right when I need it. I'm embarking on 3d printing some custom carbon fibre pipe adapters for a Starlink mount, and was looking for a free CAD solution to do it with. Your quick rundown and intro to Onshape was exactly the guidance I was hoping to find... thanks very much! On that note, feel free to dig into how to handle elements (ribs/splines/voids) equally spaced around a ring every X degrees, if you want.
Wow, that was a world wind tutorial. You go so fast that keeping up, as a beginner user, is impossible without spending most of the time rewinding, often several times. I do think you have the best tutorial series on RUclips that I have found thus far, not to mention the most recent, but its a challenge...
U can slow down the video to 0,75x, or even 0,5x if u dont mind the strange voice. 0,75 works fine for me. 😊
Thank you so much for putting all knowledge together in a very good tutorial!
You make really useful/helpful training sessions for OnShape. Thank you! My favorite part of this video was when you had drawn a rough estimate of the tool holder on a piece of paper and then showed rotating/aligning it to virtual 3D planes IRL. LMAO...I was chuckling all morning over that!
Thanks for this Onshape series. I'm a Fusion guy but it never hurts to learn more things in life so I've created an account and started following along.
Thank you very much Michael, if i didn't follow this video i was probably still using the damn tinkercad. You made me realize there are usable and simple cad editors out there. Got my first item made from scratch, and it fits perfectly.
This kind of content is what i love about your video's, helping people out of their 3d printing frustrations.
Big thumbs up from me, i love it!
Thank you for this tutorial series. I don't, yet, own a 3D printer but I use your lessons to design new desk leg mounts/spacers for the custom desk I built earlier this year. Once I have a printer, I look forward to seeing my creation made real. I have a couple of other design ideas for some things around the house. Excited at the possibilities you've opened up for me with these lessons.
As someone who is getting into 3D printing, this video was a great beginner guide to understanding how Onshape work and how I can use it to create my own custom things instead of just downloading other people's stls.
Your the BEST. clear, decic, complete. Keep them coming!
really Appreciate that! I downloaded onshape yesterday and spent a little bit messing around and going through the self paced lessons. I think with the help that they have on there and your videos I should be able to achieve my goal. thank you!
I am not the best English listener and i found this video really help. You made this video very simple but it took me few try to get what you were showing in the video. over all i need to rewatch few more to get more understanding. again thank you SO MUCH!
This is so much better than the onshape tutorials for me as a total beginner ❤ Get down to creating stuff, and the rest will follow. Thanks
This series is going to be amazing if it starts like this, can't wait
You gave me the bush i need to move on from blender to CAD so thank you
Just a fantastic tutorial. To the point with good explanations for each function of onshape.
Thanks for doing this Michael. Tinkercad has served me well but it's time to move on and your new series has inspired me to take that next step.
After struggling with freecad, I followed this project along and by the second viewing I had it down 👍👍
Very well explained and detailed, great tutorial to get people started. I really like when tutorials are about practical usable things instead of some theoretical geometric thing. Well done. Looking forward to seeing the next one
Onshape is looking like freecad fir this particular design. Thanks Michael 🤗
Thanks for your time!
Keep it coming please
Excellent Tutorial. I just started to look at designing my own parts after using ''pre-made'' files for so long so great timing.
Thanks, Michael I'm following along and enjoying your teaching.
Cheers!
Thank You Michele as with any new way to design, gonna be a learning curve
Even though I use Fusion 360 and have gradually built my knowledge, I still learned something from this tutorial (namely the difference between blue and black sketch lines). Thumbs up from me.
@@6moon.s and how many people have you taught?
I’ve started using Onshape since your last episode. I rather like it. It not too different to Inventor.
great video I have been trying to learn 360 to build a model pain rack that hangs on the wall but with your tutorial I think I will be changing programs thank you
Love the series.
Thank you, for doing this tutorial.
Thank you so much. This helped sooo much, can;t wait for the next one
Thank you so much for all of your videos! They have been a wealth of information.
Hi I like your video 😊 you got me switching from freecad to onshape even I didn’t draw anything yet 😊
Well done cannot wait for more
Fantastic, I've been looking for a cad tutorial series in easy to follow language and it looks like yours will be just perfect. I very much appreciate the time your putting into this :)
Well done tutorial. I'm looking forward to learning more features of OnShape.
I love seeing a series like this!
Great video! I suggest a video for onshape assemblies next
How Onshape works reminds me a lot of Fusion, I think that's really cool! not so much to relearn or get used!
Well explained. Really like you present different options to the design.
Thanks for this series! I’m planning on finally getting a 3D printer this coming Christmas…so starting now on learning design so I am ready when I get my Bambu Labs machine. Going to suck a little not being able to actually print any…but should give me a good head start.
Thank you so much. This has been soooo useful!!
Excellent job hace seen this a few times to get it in
hahahahahahaha I am laughing because Michael makes me smile. He shows in a clear, concise and relaxed way how to use Onshape. With most tuts, I am yawning halfway through but in Michaels, my smile just gets bigger and bigger, "I can do this!" Thank you, Sir
Michael, that was another very clear and well-explained tutorial! I am excited to get busy learning Onshape. Can you please do a video telling us how one would create toolpaths for a CNC router after designing a 3D object to be carved out of wood?
Excellent tutorial.
Great video love the series Customizable storage containers
Just wanted to show some love for a great video. Thank you for this informative video mate.
awesome. Very excited to learn more about Onshape
Thanks for this!, I have been using Fusion 360 but this is a great alternative because I can do it anywhere
Great work. Thank you.
This is great. I can not wait for more.
Thank you for this!
Love this series! Thanks for making such great content.
Great teaching.
Spot on! Thanks!
I want to say thanks. For the random theme song that pops in my head randomly at work.
TinkerCAD has been my go to for quick projects, but this interface, and your tutorial, has me already signing up for Onshape. I move between laser cutting, 3D FDM and resin, and now getting into CNC. This looks promising. Your natural pacing and multiple ways to do an effect lends confidence.
Good job!
fantastic video!
Great tutorial as always. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. If you are looking for suggestions, how about a tutorial on how to design fasteners in OnShape (different ways to connect pieces together)? Thank you again for the great content.
Awesome video 👍
This is freakin Awesome!
I use Fusion 360 and decided to try Onshape. After using it for a couple of days I can tell it's an amazing tool! In most use cases I like it more than Fusion, but it has a huge drawback - the extrusion always starts from the sketch plane. There are some ugly tricks/workarounds to overcome this in some cases, but in Fusion you can simply select the starting object (face, edge, point, anything).
But in OnShape, can't you make your sketch co-planar with any face on the existing object? And doesn't the extrusion occur normal to the sketch's plane?
I might not completely understand your concern, not being an OnShape user. Maybe you could elaborate on a precise example scenario that doesn't work in OnShape but does in Fusion 360.
@@harvey66616 The simplest example is a sketch with two concentric circles. I extrude the outer circle from the sketch plane and get the first cylinder. Then I want to extrude the inner circle on top of the first cylinder, but I cannot select its top face as the starting point - Onshape just doesn't have such a concept as starting point for extrusion.
For this simple case I can get what I want with a bidirectional extrude, but this is very confusing and mind breaking operation compared to the simple selecting of the starting plane in Fusion.
Freecad is an Open souce Github D/load is 500mb and the Manual 10mb Noyce .
FreeCAD equips you with all the right tools for your needs. You get modern Finite Element Analysis (FEA) tools, experimental CFD, dedicated BIM, Geodata or CAM/CNC workbenches, a robot simulation module that allows you to study robot movements and many more features. FreeCAD really is a Swiss Army knife of general-purpose engineering toolkits.
another very informative video . thank you.
Many thanks
Brilliant👌
Test prints are definitely a good thing to do to make sure things fit properly, though I probably would've made this out of a single sketch instead of 2
I wonder if Fusion has those sketch lines, I don't think I've seen them in it before 🤔 (tho I usually just use the normal lines to accomplish the same thing, albeit with a bit more clicking for the extrudes sometimes)
Thank you
Great tutorial! Suggestion - You do go a bit quickly, so we have to pause a bunch to follow along. Please do many more tutorials.
Good class.
Great !!
Awesome tutorial 👍👍
Thinking about how you spaced out the holes for the screwdrivers, I can see how spacing them "by eye" and then manually entering constraints for the centers is pretty simple for something ad hoc. Doing a smaller test print to test out spacing is a great idea.
But if you needed more precision in the spacing, is there an alternative? For example, suppose you want to ensure there is a certain minimum space between the handles, and between the outer handles and the edge of the tool holder, is there a similarly simple way to express that constraint? Could you perhaps make the construction circles wider than the actual handles, and then constrain them so that the edges of those circles just touch each other and the edge of the tool holder? Or could you add a constraint of a specific distance between the circles (and additional constraints from the edges)?
I am still wary of cloud based stuff, but I did give onshape a try and I do really like its interface. I'll have to give it a try for some stuff here and there... I used Fusion for a long time but now I'm mostly on linux and even more importantly onshape isn't autodesk, sooo
Thankyou
Done good
13:07 no! don’t repeat to the other side! Not when you can just mirror it
Love these latest videos.
While I understand designing for the 3D printer, That becomes a nightmare when you're modifying an existing object (car interior part) and that itself has certain requirements you can NOT deviat from. I dunno if it's because I'm a newb/novice, but can't print it via my Prusa Mini... Supports really suck.
Great tutorial, I've made an account and was wondering if this software would be able to produce a stencil?
Hi, great video. But Onshape has changed the sketch toolbar, and I cannot find the rectangle button in your video (it is a bit like tripping over at the first hurdle). Update: I opened the Onshape help file and located the Sketch help and followed their steps and the correct toolbar showed up with a bit of random button pushing. It seems several things need to be "aligned" before the duck quacks. The next step is to rinse and repeat until it becomes clear what the help instructions mean.
can you use ONShape for designing / creating aluminum molds for CNC and plastic injection? i'm ready to move on to a program that offers more customization
the "Construction" tool doesn't seem to work the same way as I see at 4:49... I've started from scratch and followed your steps exactly 3 times now, but I cannot get a construction line along the center of the length of the rectangle.
I understand this video is not new, but most of the OnShape UI still looks the same.. so does anybody perhaps know how to achieve this in the current version?
Same issue for me... no idea
I would like for each episode, just focus on 1 or 2 features/buttons please
Great tutorial series thank you. I did get a printer for this reason. I did a bit of 3d modeling a long time ago but found CAD software to be very different. I tried Fusion 360 coz there's a very extensive tutorial op YT but since its a few years out of date I spent too much time trying to find the equivalent functions mentioned in the tutorials. That was about 12 months ago and Id kind of given up on it so I'm really glad you've started this series. Cheers.
Around 7:44 in the video you say "we can see everything is black". How did you make the circles turn black instead of blue? I re watched that part five times already and cannot figure out what exactly you did there.
I love you videoes. but any chance you can show how to build a rowboat that is almost build like a viking ship. with both ends higher then the middel one. and have a thiknes of the rowboat like 1.4mm think . lenght of the rowboat shoul be like 90 mm. hight of the rowboat 30mm on both sides but middle 15mm and with of the rowboat should be 30mm. i tryed in tinkercad and that i cant do it in. so now i like to lean it in Onshape
I'm following along but I'm not seeing the same thing on my screen. After creating a document I see no planes like in this video and no view cube in the right upper corner. When I click on sketch the word "sketch 1" doesn't appear on the screen nor does that blue outline. I tried using the rectangle tool and it does nothing. Not sure what's going on, maybe a browser issue?
I'm at the part where I'm adding mounting bosses and having trouble duplicating the same thing on the other side... I can't figure out how to reference the extrude depth I did to cut out the the clearance hole on the first one. Can't figure out an easy way to measure it... Any help please? Thank you!
If you have a shared measurement you are using throughout the design, you can assign a variable. There is a video covering this later in the series.
Thanks! I’ll keep going. These are great.
I need help :| After putting all the circles and setting the distance dimensions my circles are still blue, I think its because my construction line is off-center but idk how to fix it!
Can we sketch on a canvas like fusion 360. I haven't had time to mess with it yet to see myself. But I make replacement parts a lot for things and use the canvas on 360 to help my sketching. But hate the workflow on it, onshape looks to be more natural at least to me.
I appreciate you doing this as I'm just now starting 3D printing and designing. I am having difficulty with the model, though. For some reason, when I add the dimension of 19mm between the third and fourth hole, the final edge of the box becomes constrained. Then, when I add the final dimension of 9mm, everything turns red, and I receive an error message saying that the "sketch could not be solved." I'm at a loss on what to do, as I've repeated the exercise three times, and this keeps happening. I've researched how to remove constraints from a model, but nothing I've tried seems to work. Any thoughts on solving this issue are appreciated. Thanks again for doing this series.
Hey there. I have the same issue. Did you figure out how to solve that ?
Edit: My bad, figured it out 2mn later. If anyone finds the same comment and has that issue, my issue was a constaint between the center of a circle and the center of the rectangle.
Thank you for starting this series! I tried exporting a part to STL for printing, but when I opened the file in Cura, it was a fraction of the size of the part in OnShape. Any ideas on what happened and how to fix it?
i don't see any other comments about it, so maybe i'm an idiot for asking, but here's my question...
you don't explain the Use Tool at all. you just say, i'm going to use this tool, and then skip straight over to adding the holes.
i didn't use the Use Tool, and yet my new sketch still added itself onto the other part exactly like yours. i just drew three lines and it would appear to have worked exactly the same, so i'm not at all sure what it's for. i read the onshape help page for Use, but it did not help at all.
it does however make perfect sense when you show the second mounting example. it allows you to translate the angled area into the plane of the front. so what use was it on the first mounting method?
I can't understand the concept of the "constraint" tool. How should I proceed when, for some reason, I cannot make a geometry constrained, because often, no matter when I use "dimension", the lines remain blue. Alguem pode ajudar?
hey mate do you live in sydney or newcastle area