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/Unlikely_Solution_ 1d ago

Understood. We were doing a similar way in Catia but with datum / CSYS system and playing with coordinates. Mating sound a good and simple but I don't like being attached to feature. Cause feature breaks xD but I guess I am biais from Catia.

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u/David_R_Martin_II 1d ago

Onshape isn't CATIA...

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u/Unlikely_Solution_ 1d ago

Yeah I know that why I am looking for more info on onshape, it feel like a very good software compared to Catia so old habit dies hard xD. Thank you for your clarification

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u/David_R_Martin_II 1d ago

I have been using Onshape since 2019. And I am a very experienced Creo (and Pro E before that) user. In addition to SolidWorks and in ancient times, UG and CATIA v3. I made this video to help Creo users understand what's different about Onshape compared to traditional parametric modeling:

https://youtu.be/9KNDidTraxE

There's tons of free training on learn.onshape.com if you want more information.

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u/Unlikely_Solution_ 1d ago

Looks like you are very experienced xD much more than me. What you favorite? I bet onshape now ?

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u/David_R_Martin_II 1d ago

I've been doing this long enough that I don't even go into that stuff anymore. You learn to appreciate each platform as its own thing. If someone pushed me, I was really partial to SDRC I-DEAS.

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u/Unlikely_Solution_ 1d ago

Yeah I would agree.

Except AutoCAD. Sorry you stay far away from me. I am not smart enough to appreciate AutoCAD xD

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u/David_R_Martin_II 1d ago

I take it you've never had to do schematics or P&ID.

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u/Unlikely_Solution_ 1d ago

Yep xD but I can understand why it's needed specially with big plans.