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Re: Abusing UIHints for Fun and Profit

Microtransactions in FS for FRC teams. Wow! You have won the Martin Shkreli Generosity Award

Seriously, that's a pretty creative use of the system; I certainly never thought of the interaction of the two UIHints.
BTW (and I know it's still not practical) the way to get around keeping a list of random numbers is to use a secure pseudo-random number generator (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographically_secure_pseudorandom_number_generator) based on just one secret key.

ilya_baran

Abusing UIHints for Fun and Profit

I had some fun making an early April Fool's joke about adding microtransactions to my featurescripts. This uses UIHint.REMEMBER_PREVIOUS_VALUE, UIHint.ALWAYS_HIDDEN, and an editing logic function to keep track of how many times someone has used a script and encourages them to buy more uses when they run out. An example of this applied is here.

This isn't practical for this purpose for a few reasons: There's no way to access the internet to verify redemption codes (although large random numbers stored in a private document could work), and all REMEMBER_PREVIOUS_VALUE values are reset when the user changes the version of the script (updates it, for example).

I originally did this just as an experiment about transferring data that the user doesn't interact with between script runs, essentially turning any field marked REMEMBER_PREVIOUS_VALUE into a storage location for anything that can be serialized to a string. This could be used to store configuration information, copy data between part studios, or any number of things.

Hope this is a little bit interesting at least.

juliaschatz

Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 29th, 2021

I hope bulk export is coming in the near future. Currently, every drawing/part has to be exported individually. This is a bit of a problem if you have around 70 parts.

Ivan_Deetlefs

Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 29th, 2021

Exporting Drawings to SVG? YES!!!!!!! Looking forward to playing with this. Should make my laser cutter workflow so much easier!

marc_crompton

Improvements to Onshape - March 29th, 2021

Spring is finally here! With its warmer weather, its singing birds AND of course a number or great Onshape improvements! We are excited to bring you our second release this month. This release brings big improvements to variables and more. Let’s take a look!

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

VARIABLE TABLE

Variables can now be viewed, created or edited in a new panel on the right-hand side of the screen in a Part Studio. This new variable table makes it much easier to find and edit variables, especially when multiple variables are scattered throughout your Feature list.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/6tyalu87qp?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640

DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS

EXPORT IMAGES

Drawing sheets can now be exported as SVG, JPEG or PNG image formats.

SECTION AND DETAIL VIEW IDENTIFIERS

Currently the drawings sheet panel only shows “Section” and “Detail” for those types of views. In this release, the drawing sheet panel has been Improved to reveal Section and Detail view identifiers like “Section A-A” or “Detail B”.

EXPORT SELECTED DRAWING SHEETS

Until now, for DWG and DXF formats, you only had two choices when exporting a drawing: export all sheets or export the current sheet. Now you can also specify which sheet you want to export. Use the “Custom sheets” option and specify the range of sheets you would like to export. This is very similar to how you would select pages for a printer.

MOBILE IMPROVEMENTS

IOS - MASS PROPERTIES OVERRIDE

With this release, we have added the functionality to override mass properties. Sometimes users will want to give a part a prescribed mass since the density is not easily calculated. This prevents the user from having to back calculate a density to give the part the mass they want.

IOS - HIDE ALL MATES/HIDE OTHER MATES

With this release, we have added the functionality to hide all mates or hide other mates. This gives you more flexibility when working in the assembly environment.

GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

EDUCATION ACCOUNT EXPIRY NOTIFICATIONS

Education Standard users will now receive a notification to renew their account at least one week before their account expires to ensure continuity. If the account is not renewed, it will be downgraded to the Onshape Free plan.

PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS

In addition to adding great new features every 3 weeks, improving performance is a top priority here at Onshape. With this update, we have improved assembly opening time and reduced client side memory usage – in other words, less data is needed so your assemblies will open faster.

ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENT

INTEGRATING WITH PingOne

With this release, we have new instructions showing users how to integrate Onshape’s Enterprise with PingOne.

Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments below. For a detailed list of all the changes in this update, please see the changelog.

Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new Onshape Documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in Documents created before the date of this update.

paul_simon