Perhaps you have seen our email newsletter by now with the big CAD announcement: we’ve switched from using Solidworks to Onshape. With Onshape, anyone can access and edit the native CAD models for free in their web browser or using one of the Onshape mobile apps!
We think this is going to change the way we work together on hardware, and can’t wait to see you all begin modifying parts, contributing designs, and downloading/making your own components!
This is great! Thanks for switching over! I was planning to use Onshape for my FarmBot adaptation, since I can’t afford SolidWorks. Excited that we’ll have a community on there.
When you press the “Make a copy” button, Onshape will copy the entire Workspace into a new document which will include all of the parts, drawings, assemblies, and other files.
When I just tried this, Onshape made the copy and then opened up a Part Studio named “Screw Hole Templates” by default, which is a fairly empty looking Part Studio. My guess is that this is what you are looking at as well.
To find and open another Part Studio in the Workspace, press the button in the lower left of the screen to open the Tab Manager. Then find the Part Studio you want by looking through the folders or using the search box at the top of the Tab Manager panel.
Rory, can you put a note onto the Farmbot.io website under the Documents > CAD Files page with the instructions that you just gave in your reply. I’m certain that others have tried to do the same thing and ran into the same problem.