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Thoughts on the logo
It's nice. It's crisp and it looks professional. But it's lost the casual, down-to-earth feel the original logo had.
It's as if they wanted to shed the Onshape personality and culture to fill in with something that screams "PTC!"
We get it, PTC, you bought Onshape. But it might pay for you to build on their brand and customer base instead of shedding the first and alienating the second...
It's just a logo, but it's also an erasing of the face of Onshape, and I can't say that I like it...
tony_459
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Re: Improvements to Onshape - December 10th, 2020
Why did they have to go with that drab PTC green for the logo? They could have kept the OnShape blue.
mark_leger
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Re: Onshape, we are here for you!
Throwing this out there as a possible middle ground. I am by no means a graphic designer, just wanted to put this out there.
No matter the look going forward, I'll still be using Onshape.
No matter the look going forward, I'll still be using Onshape.
Re: Onshape, we are here for you!
bryan_lagrange said:Embrace the new logo and make something to put on your key ring.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/754b8efd3b088112eb360f90/w/fa85fefd1e96832022a3694f/e/e8c3b8b91b814ec95709b444
Yea, but what the hell am I supposed to do about my tattoo?
john_mcclary
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Designing laser cut finger joints by hand is tedious. Here's how to automate it! (tutorial)
It's no fun spending hours manually making tabs for laser cut (or CNC router cut) finger joints, only to have them break when a model parameter changes. Fortunately, with Onshape, we have some awesome FeatureScript-based solutions, so I made a tutorial to demo/show how to use them! I'm using @lemon1324's "Laser joint" and "Auto layout" FeatureScripts. Huge thanks for making such awesome automations!
Link to the tutorial:
https://youtu.be/YPoJ484-7tI
If you have any questions, feedback, or video/tutorial ideas, please let me know! Also, I'm planning on trying to make Onshape tutorials Monday/Wednesday/Friday. What would be an appropriate frequency/amount to post them to this forum? I really don't want to spam/clog things up/annoy anyone! I'm happy posting none at all, one a week, a "weekly digest," or each one as it comes out, or something else, just let me know.
Link to the final public document: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/911c7d4c83c10390d2f023d5/v/ef952579db9528bbe57e12be/e/aa4fee8b5651082d4d436e1c
Link to the tutorial:
https://youtu.be/YPoJ484-7tIIf you have any questions, feedback, or video/tutorial ideas, please let me know! Also, I'm planning on trying to make Onshape tutorials Monday/Wednesday/Friday. What would be an appropriate frequency/amount to post them to this forum? I really don't want to spam/clog things up/annoy anyone! I'm happy posting none at all, one a week, a "weekly digest," or each one as it comes out, or something else, just let me know.
Link to the final public document: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/911c7d4c83c10390d2f023d5/v/ef952579db9528bbe57e12be/e/aa4fee8b5651082d4d436e1c
alnis
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Re: DO YOU HAVE A NICE MODEL TO SHOW? (DYHANMTS_2018)
I have long way to go yet, but now that i have more hours of onshape under my belt, I'm going for a better attempt at a soyuz. Maybe I can finish it before 2018 is out... 
Sneak peak:
With the sketch overlay, it almost looks like it's textured
Sneak peak:
With the sketch overlay, it almost looks like it's textured
john_mcclary
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Pro tip: How to restore a deleted tab after you have made changes without losing work
Ever accidentally delete a tab only to realize it is gone much later? Simply restoring before the delete will undo a lot of work. To keep your work and get that deleted tab back, you need to cherry-pick that delete action out of history.
https://youtu.be/9fX_mtd4BQk
https://youtu.be/9fX_mtd4BQkAs a recap, cherry-picking is done by:
- Create a version of the change that you want to remove. For deleted tabs, this is creating a version after they are deleted.
- Create a branch from the new version.
- Restore the new branch to the moment right before the version was created (across branches). Now it is as if that moment never happened, and your tab should be in the branch.
- Merge the branch to Main.
Jason_S
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Grouping Items in the model tree, and embedded sketches within a feature
Filtering items in the model tree is cool and common throughout the industry. Coming from Pro E/Creo I am accustomed to the ability to group features in the tree. IE select a set of inline features, group them, give the group a name, hide, suppress, mirror, array, delete.....the entire group as as a single set when needed. You can have groups within groups and they will expand or collapse with a + sign in front of the group. This is very useful when dealing with a large and busy tree. For parts studios it will allow grouping of the features in the tree for any given part definition such that you can find the items related to the part by locating its group. At the assembly level it is almost required to group parts of a large machine assemblies into groups that define their idea, (IE, frame, conveyors, guarding, motors, and so on) without the need of creating redundant sub assemblies simply to isolate them in the tree. Another Creo way to keep things clean is allow sketches to be embedded into the actual feature it is used in. IE instead of sketch and then extrude showing in the tree, only the extrude is there with the sketch embedded and editable from within the feature. For flexibility a sketch can exist as a stand alone line in the tree, or remain in the tree and linked to a feature, or the feature can be unlinked from the sketch so it becomes embedded such that the original sketch can be deleted without affecting the feature. Maybe this is not in the form of a question, but I wanted to express that expandable grouping is not a new thing, but it is a necessary thing especially as parts studios and machine assemblies grow