Hi , Lewis here...this is one of most precious video I have ever watched this year..that's very robust way of designing in Onshape. Thanks so much for sharing with us. You amaze me how you create custom features that optimize your workflow. Am inclined to request you make publish geo custom feature public
Ah yes you recognize the training I had drummed into me, many moons ago ;) The truth is I love modeling in Onshape more than anything else I've ever used over the (many) years. I feel it is easier to create clean, robust, and updatable models that people who visit later will have more chance in understanding.
That was super good! That's how I used Proe/Creo for 20 years before switching to OS. The pub geom feature really helps to organize things, as you showed.
Fun fact, I worked on some of the early Pro/E Design Manager demos back, hmm, last century I believe! Time flies. But the workflow is still the best. In my opinion (and as the video tries to get the point across), using Composite parts to be the carrier of references is such a robust way to do things.
Great video! just started giving Onshape a go, much appreciated. Odd question but the steering geometry seems backwards for good Ackermann geometry. Is this intentional or an oversite by the manufacturer?
Great video, can you make a follow-up perhaps with more detail on those custom features at the top level? How they are built and used (especially the main configuration feature)
I'll add this to a list of things that people have mentioned to me as follow-ons from this video! It already escalated into nearly an hour (!) and that was without going into details as much as I'd planned. The custom features would be a good deep dive for sure, though I might want to split them into two separate ones. I'll be back from vacation soon enough, and will get back to this asap.
Would be good to touch on the process of setting up mates and joints in your skeleton and detailed assemblies? Do you have a preference for which geometry you use to create mates in the skeleton assemblies or in the detailed assemblies?
I can certainly dig into this by way of a follow up/deep(er) dive. As you can imagine it does take a little bit of planning ahead to do cleanly, but once you get it, it makes sense.
I tried using this composites publish trick but I hit a wall when I found out that I can't hide their individual parts when used in a context. I guess I could put each part into its own composite but that's even more book keeping.
Nicely done as usual Greg! Can I presume we may be seeing an upgrade to the composite part feature in the near future? Also, where did the spring coils disappear to as the suspension compressed? 😉
The springs did in fact involve some artistic license.... I'm surprised nobody else has called me out on this yet :) There are two parts to make up each spring, and they are mated such that a rack and pinion relation can control the relative rotation. Not exactly intuitive, I know, but it looks really cool...
Hi Greg! I've just started using o shape a few months ago. I design and manufacturer under water treadmills. I've moved from solidworks and have to re-draw all my designs. QQ Are you using a 3D CAD mouse? The way you move around the model has me interested.. thanks for the great upload!
Yes I have a 3DConnexion SpaceMouse and love it, but I don't always take it on the road with me. I do record these videos from all sorts of locations, so you'll see some differences from time to time! The SpaceMouse is the best for sure, and since I work 99% of the time in perspective view it just seems to make the most sense.
Thanks Greg! Invaluable info. Are the models you show in these videos available anywhere for further dissection to see how you set up the fine details?
@@gregbrown-onshape7555 Cool. Thank you very much for the reply. After watching the full video I understand why it may be difficult to share the model. I think a lot about proper setup and implementation of complex assemblies. This is some of the nicest demonstration of it I've seen. Would love to see more on how to use the skeleton method in conjunction with release management in an engineering environment that you hinted at. While I have your ear.. Any chance we can exit a sketch with the enter key like we can when editing a feature anytime soon? 😂 (Thanks for full keyboard shortcuts recently!)
The Publish geometry I am showing here is enabled by a Custom feature that I wrote (especially for this video!) In fact though it uses two current Onshape features that almost exactly mimic Creo's approach. I just packaged them up in my own Custom feature so that the UI was was a bit more obvious. The two features I refer to are: - Composite parts - Derived parts The Publish geometry is really an embellishment of Composite parts (whereby more entities like Mate connectors, individual faces, sketches can be added to the Composite part.) The current native feature does not allow all these entities, so I took matters into my own hands. The Derived parts native feature in Onshape takes care of the "Copy Geometry" part of the workflow and I use that in the video as-is. The good thing with my approach is that since a Composite part is created, it acts like a Part (since it is one) and thus can be version/revision/release managed... This leads to super clean and robust collaboration.
This is a killer workflow! Thanks for the tour.
Sorry for the length of it though - I feel I still rushed over or even skipped some good bits :)
Hi , Lewis here...this is one of most precious video I have ever watched this year..that's very robust way of designing in Onshape. Thanks so much for sharing with us. You amaze me how you create custom features that optimize your workflow. Am inclined to request you make publish geo custom feature public
Great video on controlling a large project and, in the spirit of PTC, you ended on a change with everything updating.
Ah yes you recognize the training I had drummed into me, many moons ago ;)
The truth is I love modeling in Onshape more than anything else I've ever used over the (many) years. I feel it is easier to create clean, robust, and updatable models that people who visit later will have more chance in understanding.
That was super good! That's how I used Proe/Creo for 20 years before switching to OS. The pub geom feature really helps to organize things, as you showed.
Fun fact, I worked on some of the early Pro/E Design Manager demos back, hmm, last century I believe! Time flies. But the workflow is still the best. In my opinion (and as the video tries to get the point across), using Composite parts to be the carrier of references is such a robust way to do things.
Great video! just started giving Onshape a go, much appreciated. Odd question but the steering geometry seems backwards for good Ackermann geometry. Is this intentional or an oversite by the manufacturer?
Great video, can you make a follow-up perhaps with more detail on those custom features at the top level? How they are built and used (especially the main configuration feature)
I'll add this to a list of things that people have mentioned to me as follow-ons from this video! It already escalated into nearly an hour (!) and that was without going into details as much as I'd planned. The custom features would be a good deep dive for sure, though I might want to split them into two separate ones. I'll be back from vacation soon enough, and will get back to this asap.
Would be good to touch on the process of setting up mates and joints in your skeleton and detailed assemblies? Do you have a preference for which geometry you use to create mates in the skeleton assemblies or in the detailed assemblies?
I can certainly dig into this by way of a follow up/deep(er) dive. As you can imagine it does take a little bit of planning ahead to do cleanly, but once you get it, it makes sense.
I tried using this composites publish trick but I hit a wall when I found out that I can't hide their individual parts when used in a context. I guess I could put each part into its own composite but that's even more book keeping.
Nicely done as usual Greg! Can I presume we may be seeing an upgrade to the composite part feature in the near future? Also, where did the spring coils disappear to as the suspension compressed? 😉
The springs did in fact involve some artistic license.... I'm surprised nobody else has called me out on this yet :) There are two parts to make up each spring, and they are mated such that a rack and pinion relation can control the relative rotation. Not exactly intuitive, I know, but it looks really cool...
Hi Greg! I've just started using o shape a few months ago. I design and manufacturer under water treadmills. I've moved from solidworks and have to re-draw all my designs. QQ Are you using a 3D CAD mouse? The way you move around the model has me interested.. thanks for the great upload!
Yes I have a 3DConnexion SpaceMouse and love it, but I don't always take it on the road with me. I do record these videos from all sorts of locations, so you'll see some differences from time to time!
The SpaceMouse is the best for sure, and since I work 99% of the time in perspective view it just seems to make the most sense.
Thanks Greg! Invaluable info. Are the models you show in these videos available anywhere for further dissection to see how you set up the fine details?
I'll think about what I can and can't share here... I've got some other things planned for it in the near term, but you never know.
@@gregbrown-onshape7555 Cool. Thank you very much for the reply. After watching the full video I understand why it may be difficult to share the model.
I think a lot about proper setup and implementation of complex assemblies. This is some of the nicest demonstration of it I've seen. Would love to see more on how to use the skeleton method in conjunction with release management in an engineering environment that you hinted at.
While I have your ear.. Any chance we can exit a sketch with the enter key like we can when editing a feature anytime soon? 😂 (Thanks for full keyboard shortcuts recently!)
Hi mister it is wonderful video especialy who intrested scale modelini thanks
Hi, how do u get publish geometry like creo?
The Publish geometry I am showing here is enabled by a Custom feature that I wrote (especially for this video!) In fact though it uses two current Onshape features that almost exactly mimic Creo's approach. I just packaged them up in my own Custom feature so that the UI was was a bit more obvious.
The two features I refer to are:
- Composite parts
- Derived parts
The Publish geometry is really an embellishment of Composite parts (whereby more entities like Mate connectors, individual faces, sketches can be added to the Composite part.) The current native feature does not allow all these entities, so I took matters into my own hands.
The Derived parts native feature in Onshape takes care of the "Copy Geometry" part of the workflow and I use that in the video as-is.
The good thing with my approach is that since a Composite part is created, it acts like a Part (since it is one) and thus can be version/revision/release managed... This leads to super clean and robust collaboration.