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Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025

Drag and drop in configuration will really come in handy!
Naming sketch dimensions as well, and having the name also show up in the constraint manager is a nice touch. I basically never configured dimension directly because of that (always used a variable). It just seems unfortunate that this can only be accessed for configured dimensions. Naming dimensions directly from a sketch (so that it would show up correctly named already when adding to a config) would be helpful and has been requested a number of times… I hope that can be implemented at some point!

Having the folders in render studio is very much welcome! Getting better with every release, can get better handling of composite parts soon (pretty please?)?

eric_pesty

Re: Help with sheet metal flanges.

Oops, sorry I mis-read the initial post…

I don't think there's an "automatic" way of doing this currently unfortunately… The various conditions are computed to the "virtual sharp". i.e. changing the bend radius doesn't change where the "face" of the flange is.

The best way is to draw the flange at 90 with the "outer" condition, then use a move face/rotate around the bend radius center to set the desired bend angle:

You can also use some reference sketch and translate the flange to where you want it after but it takes more planning and you really want to have variables for thickness and radius for it to be properly parametric…

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ec7c90893bd97bfc6d8b6152/w/6c8ee8bb48923930500e3857/e/0d4d59df841fbe6fc7fffdc4

eric_pesty

Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025

@Derek_Van_Allen_BD the new Curve/Surface analysis shows the additional diagnostics only for SPLINE type surfaces and curves. There are a number of other surface types (and they are listed here https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/library.html#module-surfacetype.gen.fs ) for which we do not currently show the diagnostic.

In your case above you have likely used evApproximateBSplineSurface in order to return a true (and approximated) SPLINE surface. We are not doing that approximation in the analysis tool, hence there is nothing to show for the Degree, CPs, Spans.

This is similarly the case with curves. We only show the diagnostics for SPLINE curves. Somewhat confusingly there are some curve types that look like splines, but are not exactly splines (examples are Intersection curves, Projected curves, to name a couple of examples). In order to "see" their underlying math it is necessary to convert them/reapproximate them. You can do this interactvely with and Edit curve feature, for example, and of course do it programmatically inside a custom feature.

Let me know if there is more info required!

GregBrown

NEW tutorial: Surfacing Deep Dive

Hey folks. I finally got around to making a video I've had on my mind for a while to demo a whole ton of surfacing techniques in one go. If you do (or aspire to) surfacing in Onshape I hope you'll give it a watch. Buckle up though… it's hefty.

https://youtu.be/s-Ou2zgb5Yw