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Re: Change part ID to be the same for all configurations

Not sure this will work for your case but it may. @lana made a FeatureScript Assign Identity for manually assigning ID's. Pretty awesome:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/fcf31e8bc171b06037008400/w/5e435512a9859fc15abc360a/e/e076332e1669ea9babcaf65b

MichaelPascoe

Re: NOOB at work... very basic question

quadrilateral? check off the show constraints and remove the constraints that are causing the issue. also check out learn.onshape.com to learn more about constraints and more

MDesign

Re: opCreateCurvesOnFace() for parameters 0 and 1 fail?

Thanks fellas. Here's what I ended up coming up with. Since my case is somewhat narrow I don't have to worry about dealing with trimmed surfaces and I know that the only 2 edges a periodic surface will have are the ones I need.

function getEdgesOfPeriodicSurface(context is Context, face is Query) returns array
{
var paramPoints = evFaceTangentPlanes(context, {
        "face" : face,
        "parameters" : [vector(0, 0), vector(1, 1)]
    });

return [qContainsPoint(edges, paramPoints[0].origin), qContainsPoint(edges, paramPoints[1].origin)];
}

EvanReese

Re: Routing curve & Control point curve - Introduction of two new features for 3D curve creation

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/114174#Comment_114174

Jonathan, thanks for the feedback and continued interest in this feature… Firstly, how many points are in your Routing curve array? Does it become too laggy after a certain number of them, or is your comment a general one.

As my own "general" comment, we are doing a lot of work on this feature, and despite not having shared any updates since the first 11 updates we made following the Custom feature's launch last year, we've been addressing many of the issues that have been raised in this thread. Much of it with usability of the manipulator, point creation,/referencing, but also much more. I hope to share details about this shortly. Rest assured your feedback has been heard, appreciated and invaluable. Please stay tuned.

GregBrown

Re: How would you configure a multi-feature option?

You can't "re-derive" something that would create a circular reference.

However you can have a "master" part studio with some layout sketch that has all the shared info for the base and other part. You can then derive that into multiple part studios to drive the design.

eric_pesty

Re: How would you configure a multi-feature option?

Adding on to @glen_dewsbury 's great example, it's a matter of trading modeling time vs regen time. If you have to carefully redo the folder suppression each time you make a change, that takes a bit more modeling time, but the regen time is lower. If you configure the booleans, it's much cleaner from a modeling perspective, but you lose a bit on regen times.

I tend to favor things that make the modeling tree easier to understand at the expense of regen time, but it depends on your overall environment and needs.

S1mon

Re: How would you configure a multi-feature option?

Creating separate parts and using the configuration to control a boolean or boolean operations seems like a possible approach, although it means that all the features are being regenerated which takes more time. If you're concerned about regen time, you probably want to suppress by folder. The trick is that you have to be careful to redefine the suppression if you add or remove features from the folders.

S1mon

Re: How would you configure a multi-feature option?

This sample uses S1mon's description of Boolean with the regen time issue.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e1437c11e27dfdbe8eeef114/w/8e22d667f2ff4ead531b4c80/e/f43f46b03336f7bd62d1bcc7

glen_dewsbury

Re: ...avoid replacing ALL downstream references in timeline?!?

Apologies, that was though our enterprise. Here's one that should work. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/fcf31e8bc171b06037008400/w/5e435512a9859fc15abc360a/e/9a01ebcfc130df40da9ab5db

EvanReese