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Re: NEW Video series: Expressions in Onshape
pt 3 just dropped covering true/false and if/then
Part 3: Boolean Logic
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
Document Notes are independent of History - meaning: if you go back to an old version of the document, you see the Document Notes as they are today - NOT as they were when that version was created.
I think I'd prefer the Document Notes were part of the History & Versioning…otherwise, they can't be trusted as immutable data that was collected at the time of a version. No longer useful to build the development story for IP, for instance.
Re: Shaded view in break view
Re: Release Management Feedback
One additional bit of info that I would add to your suggestions is more prominent part numbers in the UI. I need those unique identifiers visible so that they can be useful. I can only come up with so many different variants of "axle" or "wheel" before the names stop being useful and just add to the confusion.
Tabs on Sheet Metal?
One of my co-workers asked me how to do something like this in sheet metal, and I just assumed that the sheet metal Tab feature would do this. It turns out it does not. It only adds material to the flat outline of a part of a sheet metal part. Partial flanges are great if you want the sides of that to be normal to the bend. In order to do this angled tab, I had to sketch the tab and add a bend. To avoid the worst bend relief I've ever seen, I had to create these by sketching and extrude/remove myself.
The results of this still don't get the tab in the exact right place. I can use move face, but that leaves weird artifacts.
There has to be a better way to do this. Do I need to create an improvement request, or am I missing something basic?
S1mon
Inertia relief & analysis
I analyze everything and use inertia relief all the time, it's just easier.
I have often wanted to apply notes to my analysis so I can explain the assumptions made and the results expected. I've used notes to document this analysis. This is really needed to keep track of an analysis.
A cup of water on a table:
The constraint is 1 planar mate between the table top and the cup. The cup is free to move on the table. There's water in the cup with 1g applied (gravity). Without inertial relief, you'd have to lock a node down and prevent the cup from moving. This is a painful process and not necessary. Public document
I'm stuck in jury duty and had nothing to do…😎
billy2