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Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025

@S1mon like this. There's a flood fill option for qTangentConnectedFaces() that has a tolerance bounds that I'm exposing to the user here. Lets me select one of these wonky edge faces and grab the whole chain without grabbing the bits I don't want. You can also see the start of some of my mesh reverse engineering scripts in some of those other tabs. I have an open improvement request to be able to expose mesh triangles to featurescript precisely because I want to do this sort of power selection of faces into groups and replace them with parametric faces like true cylinders or planes. Can't do that with just vertices.

Derek_Van_Allen_BD

Re: List of Math Operations

Hi, How do I square a config variable in a numeric field? (not a feature script) I'm trying to get the hypotenuse length given #rise & #run for an array feature in a part studio. I would guess sqrt(#rise^2+#run^2) but that didn't work. Realised I didn't know how to square a number! None of following worked: #run^2 #run*#run #run.#run.

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Had a quick look at the Feature Script documentation but not sure which part is relevant.

Found the following but can't see a square function anywhere.

https://www.onshape.com/en/resource-center/tech-tips/tech-tip-using-numeric-fields

Alex_Pitt

Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025

This markdown syntax seems to work so far. I can link to spreadsheets!!!!

https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/

bill_schnoebelen

Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025

PCB Studio is heading in the right direction. If a full MECAD solution is realized, Onshape really will become an industry staple in no time.

jacob_mader375

Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025

Already getting my mileage out of the new query variable functionality and adding some new functions to it to help clean up some of the topological messes people send my way. I'll probably find some way to shove frame and sheet metal properties in here as things to query by at some point too.