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Re: Animation fun

Finally,
I have an animation project that is actually for work.

I am trying something new, at beginning of the gif you will see a little clock.
That is what is being animated, 1 revolution. Everything else is timed through relations and the wave paths.

This way I am hoping to be able to use this sub assembly as a "caned cycle" seeing's how this is one of a dozen sub assemblies all working in unison but at different intervals.
My hope is to be able to only need a simple 1 revolution on the top level assembly every time I want to 'cycle' this operation.
Which should simplify the whole process.

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john_mcclary

Re: Standard content component requests

If we could get access to McMaster Carr's library of STEP/SLDPRT files that would be fantastic

samuel_holland

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KatieHuffman

Re: Improvements to Onshape - December 10th, 2020

I wonder if PTC realizes many people use OnShape because the hate Creo? This logo looks like it is from the 2000's. I hope this is not the first of many top down changes.

Ryan_McClelland

Re: Improvements to Onshape - December 10th, 2020

Huge fan of variables on the fly! but not very sure about the new logo. It's nice but lacks something.

Guizmo

Re: Improvements to Onshape - December 10th, 2020

Have to say that this update is a miss for me.
The logo is far from an improvement.
The whole brand was a consistent graphic approach to UI, fonts and colors. The color palette was tied throughout all the complimentary shade of blue, light blue, orange and grey. The font choices were similarly cohesive through all menus. This was everywhere in the platform. Tropicana definitely came to mind as well.
Unfortunately I think this disruption and distraction from everything we should be focused on.

Theo_R

Re: Improvements to Onshape - December 10th, 2020

On the fly variables are huge! I know I'll find myself using them more now just because. However I'm definitely tired of the use of an isometric cube / hexagon for 3D companies...there must be 1,000 companies with something similar and the previous type was unique.

3D_Brooklyn

Re: Extruding in for loop

Part of the poor error reporting is a known bug; the reason the second extrude is failing is that the ids are hiearchical and the "loop" portion of the id must come before the "individual operation" portion of the id. So use
id + count + "extrude"
instead of
id + "extrude" + count

To query the points of a sketch, depends on what exactly you're looking for -- For example, qBodyType(qCreatedBy(sketchId, EntityType.VERTEX), BodyType.SHEET) will give you region corners, while qBodyType(qCreatedBy(sketchId, EntityType.VERTEX), BodyType.WIRE) will give you (possibly duplicated) sketch entity endpoints.

ilya_baran

Intersect Views (New Custom Feature!)

Intersect Views

(New Custom Feature!)

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1755463e12cab51e4a5de51f/w/07865f22b67cc44e473c99a3/e/302fb7288b77057ca30414fb

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How to add a custom feature to your tool bar:

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MichaelPascoe

Re: Onshape, we are here for you!

bryan_lagrange said:

Embrace the new logo and make something to put on your key ring.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/754b8efd3b088112eb360f90/w/fa85fefd1e96832022a3694f/e/e8c3b8b91b814ec95709b444

Thanks for the logo! I printed one and the color doesn't look so bad

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sebastian_glanzner