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johann_murlasits

Improvements to Onshape - February 21st, 2025

We are ready with our third release of the year! This update includes improvements to core modeling, drawings, Render Studio, and more. Let's dive in.

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

WRAP ON CONICAL FACE

You can now apply a Wrap feature to a conical face. In the past, this was limited to cylindrical faces.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/f2hx4ik9h3

REPAIR MANAGER IMPROVEMENTS

In addition to accessing the Repair manager from the Versions and history panel, you can now fix broken references in 2 alternate ways. Right-click on the failed feature in the features list or from the failed reference in the feature dialog. In both cases select Edit healthy moment to open the Repair panel with the feature’s latest healthy moment.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/i7ouh9tcz5

COPY/PASTE CONFIGURATION INPUTS

You can now copy and paste configuration inputs in Onshape. This makes building configurations with similar inputs much easier.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/7da5t8yacw

HIDE SHEET METAL FORM FEATURES

You can now hide the Form feature sketch that is visible in the Sheet metal flat view.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/9k52u7ic05

DRAWINGS

BREAK DIMENSION AND SHOW DIMENSION LINE DRAWING PROPERTY

You will find two new drawing properties for Break dimension and Show dimensions lines in the Drawing properties panel.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/j5n517fjim

RENDER STUDIO

OPENVDB VOLUME APPEARANCE

Render Studio now supports OpenVDB volumes with a new OpenVDB volume appearance. Use this appearance to create volumetric effects like smoke, fog, and water, without needing to model complex geometry.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/n2gayd5ykh

FEATURESCRIPT

IMPROVED LAMBDA FUNCTIONS

FeatureScript now has improved lambda functions. This syntax change was highly requested and makes code more succinct and easier to read.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/86jm7o8g5a

ENTERPRISE

GLOBAL IMPORT PERMISSION

You will find a new "Import files" Global permission that allows you to define who in your organization can import files. By default, this is set to all users in the enterprise.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/8p/m5524wzb9fkg.png

Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments below. For a detailed list of all the changes in this update, please see the changelog.

Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new Documents. Over the next few days, these features will also be available in Documents created before this update.

cody_armstrong

Re: Spherical sunk

In other words, change the revolve axis to be vertical.

eric_pesty

Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025

Can someone double check my Math, but isn't today the 3 week mark since the last update? 😀

bryan_lagrange

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

lol, no problem! I've done the same before. Glad its working!

MichaelPascoe

Re: Lid for Bowl

MDesign is right, design style is up to you. Meantime here are some tools to use for your design including move face for clearance.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e14091d841d0a16ba529eb64/w/5013b32750da9a667a8caeab/e/05cbb26f91ca6b516639841b

glen_dewsbury

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

@MichaelPascoe I replied too soon, it does work!! This eliminates loads of downstream configurations and duplicate features. I wish I could change my answer from no to yes above. This certainly answered it. Thanks again!

Nick_Holzem

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