1A: Onshape Fundamentals

Multi-Part Modeling

Onshape is a software focused on a top-down design workflow using multi-part part studios. It allows you to create several different related parts in the same tab, all referencing each other, making the part creation for something like a subsystem easy.

Learning Center Course

Complete the following Onshape Learning Course:

• The Multi-Part Part Studios course runs you through top-down design principles, sketching for multiple parts (layout sketches), and some more practical skills for working with multiple parts in a part studio.

Check out this page to learn more about best practices for sub-documents. The following practice exercises will reinforce these concepts.

Multi-Part Part Studio Example

Notice how there's only one instance of each unique part within this part studio. The part studio resembles the completed product, as the parts are modeled relative to each other.

Example of a part studio

DO NOT MOVE PAST THIS POINT UNTIL YOU HAVE COMPLETED THE LEARNING COURSE ABOVE