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Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 25th, 2021

@nick_lumb Thanks for the feedback. Sometimes I get too excited

I'll try to slow it down a little next time.

Lindsay_Early

Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 25th, 2021

The difference between filters and folders is grouping and folding (collapse) the tree. So just filtering by type or name is not enough.

For instance, a folder for:
made parts
purchased parts
fasteners
reference parts
(all of which are either: Parts/assemblies/both)

this is the default structure of all of my solidworks assemblies.
Inside fasteners I sometimes sub divide into fastener type HHCS, FHCS, etc to make it easier to find/modify a bolt type in the entire assembly. When the assembly starts getting very large and you can't simply look at the model and find the m4 flat head screw at a glance

These also help visualize the BOM structure to make sure your BOM is sorted correctly.

john_mcclary

Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 25th, 2021

dave_c said:

@wayne_sauder Assembly folders are in development

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/45/h5bnboof3t6h.png

john_mcclary

Copy part in tab

Is it possible to copy part in one tab and paste to another tab?

Thanks

ka_wang_lee

Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 25th, 2021

FILTER IN ASSEMBLY

This is great. Does it mean folders are coming to assemblies?

wayne_sauder

New Feature: Freeform Spline

I've been working on this one for a while, and I think it's functional and stable enough to go ahead and publish. It's like the native Fit Spline feature, but you can add points to and drag them around in 3D space. There's a bit more to it than than so give this quick tour a watch. I'll probably use it mostly to route wires, ribbons, straps, etc. I may also find that it's helpful for making reference curves when doing surfacing. You can add the feature from here. Let me know if you find it useful or notice a bug with it.

Here's an example of something I'd really dread modeling without it.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/pq/2jx8z7f2ry7o.png

EvanReese

New Feature: Speaker Pattern

Speaker Pattern takes a vertex or mate connector as input then patterns cylinders and performs a boolean operation to add or remove them from parts. See the example below:

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/yc/pltuvre9kgld.png

I just got it to a usable state so I'm sharing here for people to use and so I can get feedback, and there is a lot of room to improve if/when I make the time:

add more pattern types (any suggestions?)
add end conditions like the extrude feature
make default size values more practical
find a way to visually clean up the middle of the Fibonacci pattern (even though it's mathematically "right")
add an option to select a custom modeled shape to pattern instead of the default cylinder
any other ideas?

I've been working on learning Featurescript, which is my first dive into programming in any language, and I couldn't have done this without lots of help from the forum. Special thanks to @NeilCooke @MBartlett21 @ilya_baran
and @konstantin_shiriazdanov

EvanReese

Re: Arena Solutions Acquisition

Pick me, I am! Honestly, when you marry #1 SaaS CAD (Onshape) with #1 SaaS PLM/QMS (Arena), you really have something to work with. I think it transcends logo artwork, BTW. PTC is playing to win here.

Jim Heppelmann

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