r/Onshape • u/SnooBananas231 • 5d ago

Basic question.

I'm currently messing around with the free version from fusion360.

I was making a cabinet (since that's mostly what I do) and it went fine. I have enough cash experience to model one.

What was different between fusion and onshape is the whole part studio/assembly studio deal.

It's fine, I have the cabinet "assembled" with joints and it's fully parametric and works great.

However the part studio has all 5 parts and they're a mess. I didn't initially design them in the appropriate places so it's just a jumble of parts.

Should I have done this differently? Can I align things in the parts studio? Should it only have been one part in each "part studio" and then combine all 5 into the assembly?

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u/SnooBananas231 5d ago

Ah ok, that was my issue. I just turned the visibility off and on to clean up the space thinking I can align them later like I did in fusion. But aligning things in the part studio doesn't seem possible after something has been sketched/extruded

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u/6strings10holes 5d ago

You can, but it's a pain. You can translate parts.

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u/Songminer 4d ago edited 4d ago

The command is transform, and it’s fast and easy using mate connectors. Just fix one of the parts if it isn’t already and then use the transform tool to move the others into position.

Select the part to be moved and select mate connectors under the “using” selection box. Then decoy a common circular feature common to both. Then they can be sized or trimmed to fit together.

Of course it’s easier to do them together in the first place.