SW Expert Designs a Plastic Part in Onshape 

lol - nice

lol - thanks!

Nice!

Awesome!! that's the best way to learn!

Thanks! It's been a lot of fun working on this series!

Awww yeah glad these are helpful!

Nice! Welcome to the wonderful world of Onshape!

Nice! Thanks Nick!

Awesome! Thanks for the great feedback Geoff! Glad you are enjoying the series!

Nice! Glad this was helpful! when you say "the point method" are you talking about using mate controllers to locate the holes? I learned how to that a little later in the series (from AIRWICK). thanks!

Awww yeah - glad this helped Jerry!

Thanks Maik! Glad this is insightful!

My pleasure! And thank YOU michael for the great suggestion!

nice - great suggestion and thanks!

Hi Rggo - Practice models playlist can be found here: ru-vid.com/group/PLzMIhOgu1Y5ch66npEIe0AZEyYMo9nki_&si=nd-Fn0yvvC1SfBdY Glad you are enjoying these challenges!

Hi Curt! Thanks for the feedback! The link to the original video is in the description of this video, but youtube does this weird thing where it kinda masks links in the descriptions. Here's the raw link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-6fH45otWleU.html Yes you are correct you need to see the title block to read the density 🙂 Here's a video I made showing how I created my own library of TTT materials. This library is in the public database so you can search it and use the same library I built. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bPBjYcfvOjc.html Glad you are enjoying the challenge! Lots more on my channel in this playlist: ru-vid.com/group/PLzMIhOgu1Y5ch66npEIe0AZEyYMo9nki_ Enjoy!

​@@TooTallToby Thanks! After writing that comment, I forced myself to check all the links, and I found it. Since I'm unfamiliar with your challenge projects, I was expecting to find a PDF for the challenge instead of having to scan through a different video, so I was confused by only finding links to your other videos. But now I understand how this works. I repeated the exercise a second time after watching your solution. I need to try it a few more times to fully understand all the ways this can be done and what works best. The ribs, with their odd top profiles, were a real learning challenge. Easy enough once you understand that the rib feature allows you to define that top profile, but I didn't know it could be used that way until this exercise! I also just learned how to set up a material library in On Shape for your three materials, so now I've learned that process as well. Obscure and odd, but simple enough once you know it. So forward to more learning!

@@CurtWelch Thats awesome! Thanks for the feedback!! I made a "how to rib" type tutorial too - on the onshape channel - but it sounds like you got that one down now!

@@TooTallToby As it turns out, I saw that rib video and worked through that exercise before this one. But what I failed to learn is the idea that ribs could have a top that was not a flat plane! I only thought of ribs as something you would extrude down from a drawing. When I saw the option of making the rib parallel to the sketch plane, I couldn't grasp why you would ever use it. So I failed to learn it. So when I got to this exercise which has the ribs with a curved top surface, I thought the rib tool wouldn't allow you to do this, so my first attempt was just using extrudes (which I made work but was overly complex because of how the rib joins with the egg in this part). But when I watched your solution on this video, it all finally made sense. So THAT is why I would use ribs parallel to the sketch instead of perpendicular to it!! So it took both videos before I learned what was being taught! It just takes time and practice to pick up all these ideas.

You could take a photo of the existing part and bring that into onshape. I did that in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YkUaXfkIhQk.htmlsi=GuDCjmB_BCB6iLp6

Awww yeah that's a good suggestion! Only thing is, I would lose the doubled dimensions in the sketch. But there are definitely times when I don't need the doubled dimensions, so in these spots I'll try to remember to ditch that extra line. Thanks!

Yeah, I thought the same thing too. I'm not CAD expert but for my senior design, I never had to use construction lines

Yes - So far I have not been able to find a way to include the draft as part of the rib command, so I add it afterwards using a separate DRAFT feature

Looks like onshape now has draft in the Rib command @craigaitken1285 - Gotta love those onshape updates!! 🙂

Good question!