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Thank you for the feedback! I say "use the delete part feature to delete the skeleton cube and clean up the part studio in preparation for using the laser joint feature." You can turn on captions by selecting the CC button on your device, or pressing C if you are on a desktop. If you are missing the bottom of the box, you probably need to apply a thicken feature to the bottom face before the delete part feature. You can check the "Final CAD Model" link in the video description to see the full model, make a copy of the document, and modify/investigate it as needed. Yes, in future videos I'll make sure to mention that instruction --- while it's in the video description, it seems that isn't a very clear place to check. Hope this helps, and thank you for watching!

Thanks for watching! Did you add it based on the link in the video description? All modeling tools are available on all plans regardless of subscription.

It is a static/handmade world, but the edges are designed to wrap around smoothly. The shape of the world is a cube/box. There is a "real" world in the neighborhood of the origin, and 26 visual-only copies of the world arranged around that center world, and when the player controller reaches a boundary of the "real" world, the player is teleported backwards by 1 "world width" to maintain the illusion of an infinite world. I might explore procedural generation in the future too. Let me know if that doesn't make sense, sorry it's a bit tricky to explain!

Thanks! The trick is to find easy ways of doing things, and reusable snippets from other projects. For example, the character controller (movement/camera) is one I had built for a different project, and copied in here. That way, most of the time goes towards making new/different things from what I've done before.

It works in all versions the same. All the same modeling tools are available in free + education license versions as are available in the professional plans.

Thank you for the kind words! I have to admit I just went in without a plan and started recording haha. I guess I should do it more often, and maybe make part 2 😅

1,506,402,851 cubic inches, according to the mass properties dialog: cad.onshape.com/documents/f10a163e5b24fafb53cc926e/v/2d472f873387b99eaa2059e2/e/dfe5089d6144911d9bf3b480

Thank you for the feedback!

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!

It's a bit tough to know from this description. Could you post on the Onshape Forum (forum.onshape.com) and ping me @auxiliarymoose? For spacing things out, you could try a pattern: cad.onshape.com/help/Content/linearpattern.htm Note that you can create variables to help with the calculations, e.g. make a variable #spacing and set it to a function of other variables: #total_length / #divider_count

Not sure what the issue is from your description, any errors or other stuff coming up?

About 10 hours? Details in description

Check the size of your cut sheet in Auto Layout. Perhaps it is too large or small?

I believe I've caught up and replied to your comments --- anything else I can help with?

Sorry for the delay --- I had less time than I expected and my priorities shifted. I might revisit this at some point. Thanks for the reminder!

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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!

Unfortunately, I don't know of a way to do it in SolidWorks. We used to use SolidWorks on the student engineering teams I'm a part of in university, but we've since switched to Onshape for its modeling, collaboration, and data management tools, plus generally better stability/fewer bugs.

Glad it was helpful!

Yeah, I'm thankful @FlavoredSaucer provided the underlying mesh from his video for others to use! It took some elbow grease to get it all to work in Onshape but it saved a ton of effort.

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.

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!

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!

These are the default colors that Onshape assigns-it rotates through the ones you see onscreen. You can select some/all of the parts and assign your own color, but I figured it looked more "Onshapey" to have the defaults!

No idea, sorry. I just came up with it while doodling around in Blender. Maybe something like "light pipes"?

That would be cool!

Great idea!

Ha exactly, can't forget having doom run on everything too!

Thank you!!

Yes, exactly like it :D That's where I got the mesh, linked in description of this video!