Mechanical (WIP)

Overview

Welcome to the mechanical onboarding for the 2025-2026 school year!

Goals

• Learning
  • How do we use CAD software in SCR?
  • What is a part file?
  • How can you import part files?
  • What is an assembly file?
• Practical
  • How to use Onshape
  • How to design parts for 3D printing
  • Export, slice, and print 3D models

Getting Started

Create an OnShape account

Navigate to Onshape and create an account. Select education, student, and college. Choose the student plan and search for the University of Oklahoma.

Joining The Onboarding Team

Send your Onshape account email in the onboarding-mechanical discord channel.

Once you've been added to the team you should be able to see the shared parts folder for onboarding.

Creating Parts

This tutorial will go through the steps for creating a payload bucket.

and create a document for your parts in your teams onboarding folder

Open the document and select Sketch

Choose the top plane to start your sketch. You can hide the front and right planes while editing this sketch like this

Create a center rectangle and dimension it at 1.85in on each side.

Select extrude and extrude at a depth of 1.85in.

Select the 8 edges of the part and create the following fillets

Create the following shell on the top face of the part.

Create the following sketch and dimensions on the front face of the part

Select the circular pattern tool

Select the outer circle and move the origin of the pattern to the inner circle.

Change the count of the pattern to 4 and the angle of the pattern to 270.

Exit the sketch and select the extrude tool, then choose Remove, Up to next and select the back of the front face of the part.

The final part should look as follows: