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Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 7th, 2025
@MichaelPascoe you can't configure visibility based on a variable, though it would be nice.
Re: Trying to Draw Water Slide Having trouble with a sloped 3d Line
Love running Onshurp on my smurtphone
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 7th, 2025
First time needing visibility conditions since the updates:
Am I missing something obvious? I'm trying to do a simple "Only show rotation_a" if "angle_a" is not 0 deg.
Re: Different width of the Chamfer after Boolean operations
David_YL_Nguyen, unfortunately on my model sweep is not picking the edge from the 1st chamfer. In your model you did inset in the sketch at the beginning, but I got that shape after boolean, so maybe because of that…
UPDATE: nevermind I missed Keep Profile Orientation in Sweep settings. all works thanks!
Re: Is there a way to accept/dismiss dialog boxes using keyboard?
Enter and Escape are precisely the keys.
Hit '?' to see the keyboard shortcuts.
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Re: Simple Model Won't Simulate
The technology we use in Onshape Simulation is not well suited to extremely thin (high aspect ratio) models. The elements we use are solids, and so when meshing across the thin direction of the sheetmetal it requires a minimum number of elements, which then rapidly increases when automatic refinement occurs. Bottom line, the number of elements (and thereby DOF) is too large for the solver.
The exact phenomenon can be seen in traditional FEA tools: if you mesh >3 solids through the thickness (which is an absolute minimum for accuracy), and then size the elements such that the aspect ratio is within guidelines, then you'll have a very small element. Keep doing this across the rest of the "simple" sheet metal part and you'll have millions and millions of DOF to solve.
The recommended element type forsuch simulations is a shell element, which we do not support currently.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025
We also want the DXF export to be changed to default to the document setting. It is fine being able to override it but having to actively set the scaling of every export is unnecessary extra time and sources of error added. I just came back to work after the summer and this was the first thing my boss asked me to fix because they have had trouble with it for weeks now.
