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Onshape Live 21 - Our First Ever User Conference!

Onshape is excited to host our first virtual user conference on Thursday, March 11, 2021, from 2:00 - 6:00 PM EST.

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REGISTER HERE (it's free!)

You'll get an insider's look at what's ahead for Onshape in our Sneak Peek. Also, loads of new Tips n' Tricks,
a "look under the hood" at Onshape's cloud architecture, and FEA, Rendering, CAM, ECAD, and more from our partners!
Come hear the keynote address by PTC CEO Jim Heppelmann and a "State of the Union" presentation by Jon Hirschtick.
There will be 10 presentations in all, giveaways, and an open Networking Hour.

Seriously, we're going to share things you won't hear anywhere else...register today and join the fun!

Cristina_Seckinger

Re: New Feature: Freeform Spline

After the rollout of the new Loft connections I got to thinking about something similar for Freeform Spline. With some input from @ilya_baran on how the new manipulator works, I got this added to the feature (update to V18 to use it). I think it will make this tool way better for surfacing and will also help with certain cable routing situations. I'll make a new tour video with explanations, but in short:

you can now pick an edge as a reference
when you do the point snaps to the closest spot on the edge and you get a new UI for parameter instead of XYZ and a new tangent manipulator to move it.
if you de-select it, you go back to the XYZ triad and world space

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Happy Friday, everyone!

EvanReese

Re: Can you model this part? "Impossible" modeling challenge!

Alright, I'm sure there must be a better way, but here's what I came up with for how I modeled it (view angle is dimetric for the effect):
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8ca31f7738a79a85b95a3255/v/ec01ae9a2f35c9f598819fe6/e/8c20d3b8b0f90697c0eab70e

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alnis

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

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john_mcclary

Copy part in tab

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

Thanks

ka_wang_lee