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Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 7th, 2025
Density seems to have defaulted to pounds per cubic inch, even for those of us that have set everything else to metric.
Is there any way to batch-update documents to use kilograms per cubic meter? We have the /api/documents/d/{}/{wvm}/{}/unitinfo to get the units, but nothing to update them.
Re: Parametric Offset in a Sketch
@russell_dunlop I favor the approach @David_YL_Nguyen is proposing. You don't need to do the patterning in the sketch itself. Instead you can (with some clever setup) pattern the sketch feature and the extrude cut feature in a way that it updates flexibly. Here's an example of what that can look like.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 7th, 2025
Lots of great quality of life improvements here - editing sketch patterns, config visibility power, reordering variables, etc..
One thing I will request again - PLEASE add the date that a revision was released to the columns in the list or structure view, and PLEASE make it so that the results can go recursively down a folder structure. As it is right now, these views are almost useless if we keep parts and assembly documents in folders within a project. I want to see an overview of released things for a project. We're manually collecting this information in a publication now. Not being able to sort by date seems so fundamental.
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/24583/allow-list-view-to-descend-folder-tree
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/27217/structured-view-sort
S1mon
Re: Toggle selection behavior from multiple to regular Single select
We don't care if it is onshape standard. You can justify it however you want but it's bad design. It is the inverse of the vast majority of other software and for those of us who have to work in any other program throughout the course of the day it simply sucks. Most especially for those of us using different 3D modeling software.
You have a lot of users who don't care about consistency between different device types. Furthermore, with any model that has a long tree, it is simply too easy to leave something selected by accident.
Your desire to save money with your engineering team makes life hard for the rest of us. Listen to your users.
Ed_in_3D
Re: Toggle selection behavior from multiple to regular Single select
New to OnShape, and this "Multi Select" choice is one of the toughest habits to learn, especially since it's opposite to almost all other software I've ever used. Has there been any change to the decision of making this a Preference Setting?
I'm a bit baffled by this stubbornness of "our way is the only way" instead of letting users customize it to their preferences and workflow. It's great having a default experience in mind from the UI design team, but if the user wants to change it, why not let them? It's a tool many of us have to use every single day during our work.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 7th, 2025
Ah mixed unit systems. One step closer to properly documenting my 1/4"-20 x 20mm threaded inserts the way the manufacturer intended with units defined arbitrarily on a per-dimension basis.
Re: How to divide an angle variable by two and use it in dimension
#angle is not the same thing as #Angle 😉
