Workshop Table Onshape CAD Tutorial & Cut List | Finish in 10 Minutes

[@leonnaley6770]

Fantastic video, learned alot and I have been using onshape for some time. I’ve been struggling to efficiently make wood projects in onshape but this really showed me the usefulness of the beam feature for this! :)

[@andreaselme4127]

Excellent work! No nonsense, very clearly presented.

[@devinjohnson4507]

Great video! Being new to Onshape, I am still figuring out best practises and using shortcuts etc but this video gave me a lot to improve my work. Thanks again!

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Glad it was helpful! Thank you for watching!

[@haydenmorgan]

Another great presentation, keep it up man.

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Thank you!

[@nickp4793]

Very nice model and video. 20some year proe/creo user here, just switched to Onshape.

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Thank you for the kind words! They are super motivating!

[@mystic0693]

I've been needing this I have to do something similar to this for class and I've been so confused on how to do it thank you so much

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Happy to help! Please just make sure to come up with your own design if this is for a class project 😄. This is a good place to start, but make something original! Sorry for the late reply...

[@1AlexArevalo]

Awesome Onshape tutorial

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Thank you!

[@bretthenwood6256]

Brilliant

[@jhirn2957]

Very well made video. Really appreciate the shortcut display. Used to be common in coding tutorials but have not seen it in a while. Shame they created beams as frame, but without Lumber.

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Thank you for the feedback! Yes, it would be nice to have lumber profiles in frames.

[@aborntexan]

Very nice! I have about 15 years of design experience on Pro/E / Creo Parametric. Just getting started using onshape for woodworking at home. Did you create the "beams" script yourself? Nice work!

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Thank you! Glad to hear things are going well. The "Beams" custom feature was made by Neil Cooke, an employee at PTC Onshape. Note that there is now the "Frame" tool which is an official built-in feature: cad.onshape.com/help/Content/frame.htm I'll need to make an update tutorial at some point that shows how to use it!

[@imantss]

What video editing software was used for the production? Very clean and well-put-together.

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Kdenlive - free and open source editor.

[@evanreese8592]

yes! this tutorial is a good speed

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Thanks for the feedback!

[@gaylordrobinson1199]

Nice

[@uppsala7347]

I'm struggling to figure how you go from part studio (aka multibody part) to drawing efficiently. Is there any follow up drawing to show this?

[@AlnisSmidchens]

You can create insert a Part Studio into a Drawing. More about drawings here: cad.onshape.com/help/Content/drawings.htm?tocpath=Drawings%7C_____0 I'll need to make a follow up tutorial now that the official built-in Frame functionality is available. I'll make sure to include making drawings. Thanks for the feedback!

[@stenapproved7684]

When I drag my beams they both go the same direction, what setting am I missing? So they will go towards eachother or away from eachother.

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Sorry for the late reply! The beams tool can be a little fiddly in that way. If you're having trouble getting the beams to do what you want, I recommend making individual beam features for each structural member. The direction they are offset is based on the sketch plane's normal as well as the direction in which the line is drawn.

[@riham1933]

hey, I just have a question. When I got up to the beam part, Im searching it however it isnt showing any signs of it. Im using a mac for this what should i do??

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Refresh the browser tab (tools are only loaded when the page is loaded) and make sure you're in a part studio, not an assembly.

[@riham1933]

@@AlnisSmidchens I just tried it still doesn’t work :(

[@AlnisSmidchens]

@@riham1933 Did you make sure to add it from this document first? cad.onshape.com/documents/e15c2c668d138f01242d0c80/v/093b68f4a09eb771a89f1a45/e/2d5660fc1012df9598f00251 By the way, the Beams custom feature has been replaced with the Frames built-in feature so I'll need to make an updated tutorial

[@sameerms3229]

I have one drawing facing some problems to complete it in Onshape can you help me on this

[@AlnisSmidchens]

If you post about it in the forum, then your problem can get multiple eyes on it, and it could help someone else who has the same question! You can post your question here: forum.onshape.com/

[@armwrestling_nerd]

This breams module work on mobile onshape to?

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Yes, but you need to add it from a computer first. If you don't have a computer, you can add it through the browser on a mobile device, but the browser version is not as easy to use on mobile as the app. More details here: cad.onshape.com/help/Content/customfeature.htm

[@brianmarshall7214]

Are you using the professional version, my toolbar doesn't look anything like yours?

[@AlnisSmidchens]

I'm using the Education version, but this was recorded before a couple of things changed (there's now a sidebar and the logo is different). The modeling tools are the same for free, education, and paid users; it's the license and data management tools that are different. Are there any features that seem to be missing for you?

[@dougbeard7624]

Way too fast and way too little details. Not for beginners.

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Thank you for the feedback!

[@KaloyanDobrev]

This video should be called Using Beam script for imperial woodwork... Thumbs down

[@AlnisSmidchens]

Thank you for the feedback Kaloyan. This video was created before Onshape released its Frames functionality, so it makes use of the Beams Custom Feature. What was your expectation from the video title? Maybe it could make for a good follow-up video idea! Thanks!

[@GentleStorm1]

I’m not the OP, but a) it’s a good video for experienced OnShape (OS) users, and b) you asked a really good question in response to the comment. In response to your question, MY expectation from your current video title was that I’d be able to follow along with a tutorial and, in 10 minutes, be able to create a CAD drawing of a wood table in OS. Neither the title nor description indicated a skill level, but I was at least familiar with all of the terms and how they related to the software. However, once the video started, I was lost at Feature Script (FS). I rewound the video to watch your steps to get to FS dialogue, and then figured out how to find a list of them in OS, but I couldn’t figure out how to read or use the files. I also reviewed titles of your other videos hoping to find something about how to use FS, but didn’t see anything (but noted that you commented elsewhere that you need to learn how to better employ FS before you can make a video about it). So, my response here is aiming to be as thoughtful and constructive as you are in your videos. You are very good about explaining information and why you’re doing what you’re doing (I think I watched one about APIs and remember how you briefly explained what metadata is and why you agreed to allow Google/Confluence, etc. to access it); you also do it in a very neutral, calm, and informative tone. Were I to create a video - and there are plenty of reasons I don’t ;-) - I might consider adding “competencies” to the description area (such as, “to successfully complete this tutorial, the viewer should already know how to…”). I know that not everybody reads the descriptions before watching the video and you’re probably more familiar with the analytics than I am, so the suggestion is offered knowing that I know I don’t know how useful it really is. I do hope you continue teaching others in some fashion or another because you’re very good at it AND you seek to improve!