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Re: Onshape and Raspberry Pi 4?
Hi Patrick.
Onshape can be used on Raspberry Pi 4 through the chromium web browser, as I tried that last year, when I purchased the 4GB RAM variant. It needs an operating system with hardware acceleration enabled, at that time Raspbian OS did not have that, but there are other distributions available. Performance wise, I was getting about 5/2.2 million triangles/lines, but the new version, with 8GB RAM memory, will not improve it, since it would need a more capable graphics chip.

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Re: Rack and Pinion Relation
I would create a dummy part (that will be hidden by in your assembly)
that is shaped like a cam that only touches one of the fingers of the frame.
something like the blue shape, then make it tangent to the frame marked in red
The other finger on the top of the frame does not need to actually engage the wiper, just needs to "appear" to

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that is shaped like a cam that only touches one of the fingers of the frame.
something like the blue shape, then make it tangent to the frame marked in red
The other finger on the top of the frame does not need to actually engage the wiper, just needs to "appear" to

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Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 3rd, 2020
Made a custom feature that allows for this, I'm happy again! Thanks for this feature guys!sam_parsons said:Really pleased that you can apply appearances to faces now, but I'm a bit disheartened that you have to configure them in configured properties tables rather than in configurations, limits the freedom of the configuration quite a lot
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 3rd, 2020
YES! Thank you sooo much for finally making it possible to color individual faces. This will allow me to (easily) make my CAD models look more realistic, AND allow me to no longer need so many individual parts and assemblies as the hack for when I absolutely needed different colors before. So excited. I feel like Onshape is now fully on-par with SolidWorks for my needs. Thanks!!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 3rd, 2020
This is an impressive update. Thank you!
We will be using these right away.
We will be using these right away.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 3rd, 2020
Thank you, I'll make use of that todayNeilCooke said:The label example was created just for you, Brucebrucebartlett said:Soooooooooo much more colorful Neil! You've made my day with this much overdue feature.

Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 3rd, 2020
Color Face! Stupendous, spectacular! Now, how do I make the 'appearances' panel go away after I've used it?
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 3rd, 2020
wow! this release is huge! Seems like everyone must be settled into the new location at PTC now.
Face colors is going to be super helpful for use in Keyshot for me.
"n" to view normal to the closest cardinal plane is a bit of muscle memory I never lost switching from Solidworks 4+ years ago, so that's very welcome. Now when I hit "n" out of habit something will actually happen.
The custom tables seem very important too. Now I can probably phase out the Find Sharp Edges custom feature in favor of this.
Thanks! 👏👏👏
Face colors is going to be super helpful for use in Keyshot for me.
"n" to view normal to the closest cardinal plane is a bit of muscle memory I never lost switching from Solidworks 4+ years ago, so that's very welcome. Now when I hit "n" out of habit something will actually happen.
The custom tables seem very important too. Now I can probably phase out the Find Sharp Edges custom feature in favor of this.
Thanks! 👏👏👏
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 3rd, 2020
One of my favorite updates yet! FeatureScript tables, colored faces, saving dashboards! I have quite the backlog of scripting and administration now.