r/Onshape

In the last 15 years I have being designing products on software like Inventor, SolidWorks and Fusion.

One thing that always bothered me was the lack of first class support to other operating systems than Windows.

Oneshape is only online and always in their cloud, so if someday they get acquired or close their software you are in their hands.

FreeCAD is a great product but is not intuitive for anyone coming from SolidWorks/Inventor/NX.

So I decided to change that, I am developing Oblikovati, an open source, multi platform ( runs and builds for Linux Wayland, Mac Universal and Windows) Parametric B-Rep CAD which is super lightweight.

Oblikovati is developed from the ground up, not a wrapper around OpenCascade, using GoLang and modern Vulkan API.

It opens in a second. You can use any mid tier hardware and it runs smoothly.

I have development builds ready to run for all OSes on GitHub: https://github.com/Oblikovati/Oblikovati

The features I expect to ship for a first stable release are already there including:

- Parameters & Complete Parameters Solver.

- Sketch 2D and 3D with complete Constraints Solver.

- Part Modelling including Sheet Metal support.

- Drawings & Annotations.

- Basic Assembly with Joints & Constraints + Assembly Parameters Linking.

- Imports: DXF, DWG, PDF Vectors, Obj, Stl, STEP, Various Point Cloud Files.

- Exports: DXF, STEP, STL, 3MF, OBJ.

Some niceties are: Complete UI color customisation with dark and light themes and Text format documents, so your designs are git friendly and easy to track design changes.

I am happy to receive bug reports, feature requests and any feedback helping to bring the software faster to a stable release 1.

A fun experiment - I built this custom feature in a couple of hours with only my requirements and a little bit of encouragement. Claude code was the LLM working with the Onshape FeatureScript MCP server(coming soon!).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6pLS1Rey8g

You can see the feature here: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/afe4a84e522a93e678340b19/v/3c37b8970d7d323f0578a18d/e/997736a41781ff3076e81e07

I am designing a custom keyboard/Macropad designed specifically for CAD. I primarily use Onshape and Fusion. I definatly want units and the common keys for dimension, sketch and drawing tools, I included a few others. I am SEEKING CONSTRUCTIVE FEEDBACK. What would you change, add or want different. Please let me know!

Trying to design some pods for my A pillars to hold my tweeters and midbass, however when I first imported these models they had thousands of vertices and meshes, and was taking forever to do even the simplest transforms, i couldnt find a good axis to rotate off of either, i gave up and tried again today only to notice my model looks a bit more solid now instead of a mesh but I cant seem to do anything to it?

Also yes this was taken on mobile just because it was easier to screenshot and post but I do the work on desktop pc, am I making a newbie mistake? What should I do?

HI! I am a student designer using OnShape and am trying to recreate the gripper in the first slide for a project. I have made past iterations and am struggling to design something that will work. The 2nd slide is what I have designed most recently. Can someone give me some tips as to how to create a similar design? For some context I am trying to create a kind of 3 finger gripper that is an exoskeleton so you can put your fingers through it.

This is one of those things where I'm sure there is specific vocabulary that I don't have.

My kids are always asking me for small game boxes, deck boxes, containers etc. and I know this is one of the best uses for 3d printing. But what always trips me up is making a container that has a secure way to keep it closed that also won't wear out in just a few dozen uses. These boxes will get thrown into backpacks and camp bags and I don't want the contents spilling out everywhere. The problem is, most of what I see online are compression fits or snap latches, and those seem like they’ll wear out fast.

I've seen latches like this and this but they're pretty bulky and the plastic will deform pretty quickly if they're used a lot.

So far the top idea I've had was a half screw with bolt but I hate dealing with threading especially if I have to model the fillets nicely to print in the right orientation.

My wishlist for an ideal latch:

• Easy to replace when parts wear out (I love hinge designs that use raw filament as the pin)
• Low profile, doesn’t stick out much, both to save space and to avoid breaking off easily.
• No extra hardware, no screws, magnets, or other components, so it stays simple and cheap.
• Doesn't have loose parts that can get lost

I know it's a wishlist but I'm sure this community has some great ideas.

Edit SOLVED! Using a circle and not an oval fixed it. My inital frustrating attempts yesterday DID use a circle, but also used a fence sketch that was overly complicated. A simpler sketch combined with a circle instead of an oval the trick. THanks everyone!

Original: I'm trying to wrap and extrude this wrought iron fencing sketch as a new solid onto this cylinder and it is not allowing me to select the cylinder as a Target. So I thought maybe the problem was with my sketch, so I tried a test with just typing my name, and it did the same thing!
I had been struggling with this yesterday in another file, so I stepped away and decided to start simple, and watch/follow several wrap tool tutorials, and I followed each one on several documents:

• Create a center point circle (I tried circles, too, but I ultimately need an oval) with dimensions.
• Extrude to create a cylinder
• Create an offset plane
• Add my sketch (or type my name)
• Use the wrap tool and select my tool (sketch or written name)
• Select the target**

Here is where I was unable to follow. My target does not give a yellow outline and it is not selectable. It seems like the simplest tutorial to follow and I simply don't know what I'm doing wrong. I follow along with every step. Onshape adds their logo in their tutorial, so I know a more complicated-ish sketch is possible, but I can't even do my name! Please help, and I thank you all in advance.

My Latest Attempt

Hello,

I'm trying to fill in some walls in a part, but the extrude step fails when the width is less than 6mm. I have attached a picture of the expected result and the result I am getting when I try it with <6mm.

I am trying to do an extrude to part because there are multiple drafts in the existing geometry. I also tried achieving the same result with a sweep, but it left gaps between itself and the rest of the shell.

I imagine this has something to do with the angle where the extrude meets the part below, but I don't know how to fix it. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks

Hey all! I've rebranded Rally for Onshape and shipped a bunch of updates based on the last reddit post that blew up including:

- Light & Dark mode support

- Improved filter and search for the toolbar and quick action tools

- Performance improvements

- Fully customizable canvas background image

- Firefox launch

Thank you for all the feedback, support and collaboration on what can make this tool as effective as possible for boosting your productivity in Onshape :). Rally for Onshape is and always will be a free, open source project built by the passionate Onshape community.

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