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OnShape Basics

OnShape Basics

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Date Created
December 1, 2025
Author
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Tools & Skills
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[CoF] Careers of the Future
ConstructionAdvanced ManufacturingHealthcareTechnology
Launch Lab Connection
Competency
STEAM Agency
Status
In Progress
  • OnShape Setup
  • Document Creation and Navigation
  • Document Preferences Setup
  • Modeling Basics
  • Sketch
  • Extrude
  • Sketch on Models
  • Feature Tools
  • Lead Practice
  • Making a Fixture
  • Base: Sketch 1 and Extrude 1
  • Slop Wall: Sketch 2 and Extrude 2
  • Hole: Sketch 3, Extrude 3 and Fillet
  • Independent Practice
  • Practice Modeling the following:
  • Careers on the Future Connection (TBA)

Onshape is an easy-to-use online program for drawing in 3D. It helps people design everything from car parts to new inventions using just their computer or a tablet.

In this OnShape tutorial you will learn the intro to

  • Making a Sketch
  • Dimensioning lines
  • Extruding a Sketch
  • Using Feature Tools
  • Following a Technical Drawing
  • Careers on the Future connections
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This documentation assumes that you have no background in Onshape but have used another 3D modeling software such as tinkercad.

OnShape Setup

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Document Creation and Navigation

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Check out this video tutorial on Youtube

Log in by creating a free account at onshape.com/

Create project

Create- Document

name your file- Create

Image shows picture of the database of Equipment in a grid view. The grid shows the image and name of the equipment.
Figure 1: OnShape home screen
Image shows an image of the tutorial database with a filter to show only sewing tutorials. There is a blue button labeled New on the right of the database.
Figure 2: Onshape workplace

Navigation

rotation

pan

zoom in and out

Plane

top x

front y

right z

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Document Preferences Setup

Check workspace units

Image shows a list of properties in the sewing machine tutorial. Properties in the image includes Tags with sewing and bernette, Author with Simeon, Date with empty, Class with empty, class selection with empty, Documentation Type with Empty.
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Modeling Basics

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Sketch

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Extrude

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Sketch on Models

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Feature Tools

Lead Practice

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Making a Fixture

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Now that we have the basics let’s use those skills to build a fixture found in many construction projects.

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Pause. What do we notice?

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How about:
  • The bottom dimensions looks like its the side view of the model
  • Top dimensions is the top view
  • The model is 4 inches high and 5 inches long with a thickness of .75
  • Its an L shape with a sloped wall on one side
  • There is a 1 inch hole in the model located 2 inches from left and 2 inches bottom of the model when viewed from the top.
  • Last there is a curved corner (or fillet) on one of the edges that has a radius of .5 inches

Based off of our noticing where should we start?

To identify this lets ask some key questions

  • What is the largest, most fundamental base or shape that the object is built around?
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    What do you mean by shape?

    Take a look at the model. What shapes do you notice?

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    What do you mean by base?

    You can think about it as the image you see below.

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  • What plane does this shape live on?
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    What do you mean by plane?

    Remember that we exist in 3 Dimensions (XYZ) or in Onshape: Top, Front and Right

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  • How do the main parts or shapes of the object relate to each other in terms of size and position?
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Base: Sketch 1 and Extrude 1

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Slop Wall: Sketch 2 and Extrude 2

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Hole: Sketch 3, Extrude 3 and Fillet

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Independent Practice

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Practice Modeling the following:

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See how far you can get. Need a walk through? Check out the orginal video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLci8FGamCA

See page below for Full Instruction sheet

BEARING - Instruction Sheet - Onshape Learning Projects
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Careers on the Future Connection (TBA)

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