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Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 31st, 2020
All good stuff here by the way.
Been waiting and hoping for the insert part studio filter since day 1. This will be a great quality of life improvement when trying to migrate people over here.
Been waiting and hoping for the insert part studio filter since day 1. This will be a great quality of life improvement when trying to migrate people over here.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 31st, 2020
It is GREAT customer service, they will sprinkle a little "not-so-critical" stuff in-between some other important updates.Sujan_Patel said:really someone requested this....
SWITCH ANGLE OF PROJECTION ON DRAWING....
The simple answer is to create proper templates. What a waste of resources by implementing this....I am clueless. Is this example of good customer service by implementing such features or bad customer service by ignoring other critical features.
It is far better than just ignoring the little guy.
This happened to me at least 3 times at my current job.
Where our customer changed their drawing standards from 3rd to 1st angle, then we had to go through the 100s of drawing sheets and fix everything.
Just to have them buy another (almost) duplicate system the very next year and abandoned the 1st angle projection. So we had to update the drawings back to 3rd projection during the next release (because naturally the original draft was so far out of date at that point of the revisions to be worth reusing).
in summary, Don't hate on a feature just because YOU won't use it.
I'm glad Onshape now has this option. It is pretty basic really, and doesn't add bloat.
(I voted you down by the way, because their customer service will bend over backwards and work past midnight to fix your documents, and you bash them for giving a simple quality of life improvement...congrats that is the 2nd downvote i gave on these forums)
john_mcclary
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Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 31st, 2020
the BoM cross-reference behavior before this release always got to me and seeing that update is a huge relief to me. It makes the BoM a lot more useful. Thanks!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 9th, 2020
Really, really looking forward to the day when I can add columns to an assembly BOM and not have them show up in the drawing. I always forget to turn these off again once the metadata is added or checked. 
Re: How to find the id of several bodies in "Query" with several mouse Picks
ups, sorry. this works
for (var i = 0; i < size(parts); i += 1)<br> {<br><br> //println(someString~i);<br> setProperty(context, {<br> "entities" : parts[i],<br> "propertyType" : PropertyType.NAME,<br> "value" : myString ~ i<br> });<br><br><br> }
Re: How to I open a STEP file?
@peter_morris you must extract the RAR file fist on your computer and upload the step file to Onshape. Then the step file will upload, process on the servers and then produce a result of one or more tabs, if it is an assembly it will have multiple tabs. Make sure to navigate out of the folder that the step file places you to using the icon in the left corner of the document to expose the total document structure.
Re: Will private documents remain private if shared with a customer using a free account?
Yes. Onshape never makes private documents public. Free user can view the private document shared irrespective of the permission given to the free account.
ravi
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Re: Can I relate a dimension to another?
For simple divisions like half. you can just use geometry instead of a variable.
here you see i created a construction line, made it equal the short edge, then constrained the end point to the mid point of the long edge.
here you see i created a construction line, made it equal the short edge, then constrained the end point to the mid point of the long edge.
Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
I couldn't imagine using anything else for working from home other than Onshape, so many advantages over onsite installed applications. I saw some traditional CAD people saying lockdown/work from home is a great time to catch up on CAD tutorials, shows how backward they are, I would think a great time to make the change to Onshape for seamless work from anywhere in the future.