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Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 7th, 2025
@Jason_S "We have the "always show" option in the works. There was value in getting this out rather than holding for that."
Very much appreciated - Thanks! 😊
Re: How to iron out wrinkles and fill in concavities in lofts?
It will take some work to fix it, but big picture: your loft is only as good as the underlying curves.
Re: Custom Feature: Heat Set Insert (Threaded inserts for 3D Printed Parts)
Great script, I would suggest you change your merge scope filter to mirror the one used for the hole feature:
annotation { "Name" : "Merge Scope", "Filter" : (EntityType.BODY && BodyType.SOLID && ModifiableEntityOnly.YES && AllowMeshGeometry.YES) }
definition.mergeScope is Query;
That way we can merge with meshes, great for putting heat set inserts on laser scanned parts for mounting.
Re: Sketch Pattern Feature Script
There is this script that does the simpler version of that geometry. It does it in 3d coordinate space instead of the 2 dimensional flat domain though and you'll probably want to lean on qCorrespondingInFlat to make things easier to navigate. I have a custom tab and slot tool I had @Caden_Armstrong cook up that does some 3d to 2d sketch patterning magic to make tab and slot geometry work on bent / rolled faces which I'm in the middle of a rewrite of to handle more specialized cases than we originally planned for.
In short: very doable.
Sketch Pattern Feature Script
I recently used SendCutSends recommended cut pattern to make hand bending of sheet metal possible. I really love the results. The only downside is that the sketch took a fair bit of work to layout and update. I was wondering how hard it would be to create a custom feature script to set the necessary parameters and create the sketch entities. You can read more on the ScS website here.
