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Re: Rendering of PDFs in Onshape re-enabled
Some users don't even get the option to download.
even though they have export permission
Re: [Chatbot Copilot] - We Built a FeatureScript AI Assistant That Outperforms ChatGPT
I've spent ~15 minutes playing around with it, and here are my first impressions:
I tried asking for a few simple features, but as expected - its not able to produce anything working, even given the lowest hanging fruit. I've naysayed this enough times that the forums don't need another rant from me on the topic.
But I will be nice and evaluate it on the other more reasonable use cases described: documentation and question answering.
I asked the chat a number of easy enough questions, including a few real questions asked on the forum.
The good -
- Responses have citations.
- I tried to see if any data had been stolen to train the model - and nothing obvious comes up.
The bad - - It invents new featurescript functions that don't exist (or syntax, or doesn't use them correctly, etc)
- It gets answers to questions wrong more often than it is correct.
- It gets even the simplest questions wrong, like "how do I join two lists"
- The citations don't match the answer. I'm seeing "opBooelan" as the source for joining two lists, and nearly every answer i get.
I think there is use and value in having an AI that can answer questions about featurescript. Many questions can be answered by reading the documentation, which can be a bit overwhelming if you don't know the correct words to search. But at this time, your AI would be more frustrating than useful to a new featurescripter.
I'm curious what your plans are for training data to improve your model?
Re: Need some help with being efficient.
Regarding efficiency: Here is how you can do it in 6 features:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/cf959671c75e79afd37ce6d6/w/1dec3a0f2b34bea075…
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Technically you could do this part with two features if you use a custom feature. Well you could do it in one if it were made for this, but Intersect Views is a generic custom feature I made for things like making parts from old drawings that have a at least two drawing views.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/cf959671c75e79afd37ce6d6/w/1dec3a0f2b34bea075ac5…
Re: How to bend a flat extrusion around a curve
Re: Remove tap drill size from hole callout on drawing
Re: Remove tap drill size from hole callout on drawing
@kate_leipold_rit Absolutely right that a tap hole can't be inspected in the final part, but it could be an in process inspection. What might make more sense is to make the display optional, and possibly make it a reference dimension.

New Video: Wood Rack Tour 🪵🪓
I recently designed and built a wood rack for my firewood, and made a video touring through the Onshape side of it. I think there are probably some workflow tricks that will help some people, and I fully expect to learn some things in comments too since I haven't used the Frame feature set on many of my professional projects. If you watch and enjoy it I really would appreciate doing the classic like/sub/comment on Youtube which will help boost the young channel.