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Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
@ilya_baran did they hoped to hide anything from the russian hackers?ilya_baran said:a bunch of people here were impressed with your guess
Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
@konstantin_shiriazdanov - I am always afraid when you ask a question as most of what i know comes from reading your stuff! 
For now I will just say 'maybe'
For now I will just say 'maybe'
Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
Crap..
I was happy I had a hot project in Onshape this morning. (finally a break from Solidworks) Unfortunately Onshape is too fast... Whole project only lasted half our..
sigh.. back to SW again...
I was happy I had a hot project in Onshape this morning. (finally a break from Solidworks) Unfortunately Onshape is too fast... Whole project only lasted half our..
sigh.. back to SW again...
Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
In a previous job i used CATIA professionally....I then started using onshape about two years ago as it was available and it did the job. Although it still lacks some functionality that CATIA has..(I'm confident Onshape will add the features in due course) the whole concept of cloud cad is so much better. never had to deal with a crashes and lost data and the version and document control is worth it alone. It really is a great product ! wouldn't go back to CATIA even if it was free.....just wish more companies would hurry up and get on board.
Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
@john_mcclary Where can I see the full version of that video, awesome trailer
I feel ya about traditional cads, my previous cad was Alibre/Geomagic/Alibre - I thought I would quickly update back to Alibre brand as they bought it back.
Yeah, update and quickly don't really go in same sentence..
Guess what?
Activation was not successful
- Confirm active Internet connection
- Contact support or your reseller for help
I felt really good switching Onshape window on top and continue work.
ps. This happened like 30 hours ago, few hours ago I got new serial to use - and Alibre actually has one of the best customer support in the industry, there is only one that is even better..
I feel ya about traditional cads, my previous cad was Alibre/Geomagic/Alibre - I thought I would quickly update back to Alibre brand as they bought it back.
Yeah, update and quickly don't really go in same sentence..
Guess what?
Activation was not successful
- Confirm active Internet connection
- Contact support or your reseller for help
I felt really good switching Onshape window on top and continue work.
ps. This happened like 30 hours ago, few hours ago I got new serial to use - and Alibre actually has one of the best customer support in the industry, there is only one that is even better..
3dcad
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Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 15th, 2020
Nice updates! Very useful.
**But** - still waiting to be able to have a folder structure in assemblies for grouping parts and shortening the tree.
Would still like to see the Mate Features in assemblies removed from the Instances section and moved to a pop-up or pull down menu.
Honestly folks, I'm getting arthritis in my scrolling finger!
**But** - still waiting to be able to have a folder structure in assemblies for grouping parts and shortening the tree.
Would still like to see the Mate Features in assemblies removed from the Instances section and moved to a pop-up or pull down menu.
Honestly folks, I'm getting arthritis in my scrolling finger!
Re: Lookup table creation workflow?
I'm sure you'll get different favorites from different folks, but one advantage of using Python or JS for this is that you'll also be able to use the Onshape API to easily upload the code you've generated. In fact for JS this is already implemented with the "Upload blob" sample app here: https://github.com/onshape-public/apikey/tree/master/Node
Once you get that running from a terminal, you can then add bunch of JS work which generates your code, which seems to me like the fastest path to a completed project!
If this is just a one-time thing that you're okay copy-pasting, I'd say Python and JS are still good options, as both are easy to get up and running quickly.
Once you get that running from a terminal, you can then add bunch of JS work which generates your code, which seems to me like the fastest path to a completed project!
If this is just a one-time thing that you're okay copy-pasting, I'd say Python and JS are still good options, as both are easy to get up and running quickly.
Re: Better way to enter length formulae in Dimension input box?
There is an improvement request somewhere for this.
One of the work arounds is to copy it into notepad, work on the equation there, then paste back into Onshape
One of the work arounds is to copy it into notepad, work on the equation there, then paste back into Onshape