Working with STL files in onshape

Onshape can't edit meshes directly. But it CAN references the verticies in them - which in turn can be used to fairly quickly and easily re-create parts natively so you can work with them. This is the basic method I use to do so.

[boardiesman]

The only video i've found that explains and SHOWS how to get a mesh to sketch and solids.

Thank you so much

[yrjrn]

New onshape user here, Thank you for this.

[maximpulse]

Wow! Way cool! I've been using Onshape a long time but you have shown me ways to proceed that I never imagined.
Thank you so much! I'll have to watch it again and take notes.

[dontquestionjustbelieve]

Been looking for that one setting for nelly a year

You have no idea how much blood, sweat, tears and swears have been done
over it. thank you

[corbinslaymaker]

awesome thank you so much for taking the time to make a tutorial like this. watching someone else use onshape makes it so much easier to learn, and i learned a lot from this.

[daveb]

Wonderful. Keep doing what you are doing. I am learning so much I think my head is going to explode.Thanks again.

This was a really helpful tutorial. Thank you very much for making this!

[Baybarshazar]

That was exactly what i was looking for. Great video. Thnx..

[larskjr]

good video of the general principal it helped a lot

[loughkb]

This was extremely helpful, thanks. If you want to speed things up, close most of those 16 extra tabs so your machine is not so heavily into swapping to disk for virtual memory. ;-)

[janformanek]

Thank you for your tutorial :) Easy way how to show it :) Luv ya

[carlosberdeal]

What if my 3d scan has no flat surfaces? How do I go about getting started? Can anyone point me in that direction?

[SamupamIn]

Use freecad to convert stl to solid freecad is way ahead in that matter compare to other parametric software then you can import in your favourite cad software and then recognize or make features.

[Hippo]

Is there a way to at least combine a mesh with some custom part? Because I have some parts with complex shapes and can't recreate this in onshape...

[montgomerylong]

GREAT VIDEO!! How would you convert an STL file into a DXF using ONSHAPE??

[mickcoomer]

Very confusing to watch. Please decide where you are going to move your cursor to and then move it. Please don’t move it in a random way.