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Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025
For those who want a long-form look into the panoramic rendering option now offered, I made a video:
Will we ever be able to getProperties() during regen?
Might be a questions for @ilya_baran or @lana.
I know it's a current limitation that getProperty() only works in things after feature regeneration like Custom Tables and apparently Editing Logic. I believe it's regen order that means the properties "don't exist" until after the features regen. Do I have that right? In any case, my question is will this ever change? The more teams I work with the clearer it is that data wrangling is as big or a bigger challenge than just modeling things, and there are a lot of data challenges that could be solved by access to part properties during feature regen.
In a similar vein, is it on the road map to be able to set previously un-set properties without having to "Reset all"? It would certainly make for a more streamlined and intuitive experience.
Are these too architecturally fundamental to hope for these changes?
Re: Text around a curve
but for curve text it should be as easy as drawing a curve
And entering your text in the input area,
Then play with all the parameters until you get what you want.
If you have a link to a document showing your text not working. Link that here and we can point you in the right direction
Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025
As others already said, please let us set a default unit for the DXF exports in the company settings or set it to the workspace units of length as default.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025
Would love to see DXF export drawing units option default to a company setting or an export rule. Even if the default was set to workspace units of length. Always defaulting to meter seems a little awkward when we have the ability to change the workspace units.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025
regarding DXF Export: Please add a general setting to permanently export in millimeters. After this update we have to always change to millimeters befor export, it causes already some troubles, when we forgot to change it… In my opinion DXF's are unitless, so all you do is scaling it, which shouldn't be done in CAD.
DXF / DWG EXPORT UNITS
Hi, as of the last update, you can now override the default units when exporting a DXF or DWG flat pattern in sheet metal. The default is Meter, can you change this default setting? We use Millimeters, and didn't spot this change, we just caught it in time before the laser cut some very small parts 😁.
Many Thanks.
Craig
Craig_34
Re: Standard Content - Edit Appearance
Throwing another vote in to make this happen.
For us hardware finish is pretty critical especially if it's an exposed fastener. The more we can show that in the assembly documents the better. Manufacturing gets confused when a screw that should be black zinc looks silver.