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Re: Improvements to Onshape - November 22nd, 2024
Flatten, pause regen, sketch inspector for small gaps, and useful bezier degree reduction are all relevant for a current project.
Not the first but maybe the most dramatic instance of JIT functionality in Onshape. :)
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Re: Improvements to Onshape - November 22nd, 2024
A number of users have asked why flatten surface cannot be used in downstream features without reimporting and when that will be fixed.
We are planning to make it easier to use the flat by allowing export-to-tab, as well as further "comfort" enhancements.
What we are not currently planning to do is to allow flattening to be an automatically regenerating parametric feature that produces the flat surface: the algorithm is quite complex and numerically sensitive and the requirement to keep old versions regenerating perfectly will hamper our ability to make improvements in the future.
Re: Can someone explain what is happening here?
Sometimes I am amazed by my skills.
I have a particular talent for breaking software, but have never a way to employ it to generate income. 🤓
Re: Improvements to Onshape - November 22nd, 2024
Very nice update!
Some of my favorites this round, the very special ones are bold or italic :)
- New flatten surface export
- New Sketch profile inspector tool
- New Paused regeneration mode for Part Studios!!
- Support for Thickness Analysis for Professional and Enterprise Edu users
- Support including decals in thumbnails
- Support styling (bold, italic, cell colors ..) and cell width/height on paste from Excel/GSheets in Drawings
- Render Studio: Select all instances of Part or sub Assembly
I think the Onshape crew was hoping their name gets brought up this year at the Thanksgiving table when everyone says what they are thankful for 😉
Can't wait to see what they do for Christmas, unless they take a well-deserved break for December's release.
Re: LiveWorx ???
Hi Darren,
The one big thing that is missing is the sneak peek. 😭
No, seriously, there is probably not much difference in coverage. It is harder to justify travel for hrs just for a 1 or 2 hrs. Vs. something like Liveworx, which was a couple of days.
I also feel like I lost touch with many Onshape users since the user group thing was dropped, and some of these other events were also dropped. A number of the shows that Onshape attends are not in my line of work. For example, I am not going to take off work to attend an MD&M event because it is not part of my field of work. (not that I would not enjoy it) It just does not make financial sense.
Perhaps the thing that I feel is missing is events where the common ground and attraction is onshape. (I realize there have been a few Onshape-specific events over the past year, but none have been close enough to me or fit my schedule to justify attending.)
can I add extra truetype fonts to Onshape?
Is it possible to add fonts to the font library in Onshape?
Re: Improvements to Onshape - November 22nd, 2024
Checking the changelog, there shall be an update regarding pasting tables from Google Sheets or MS Excel. There's definitely some improvement done, but a lot is still missing.
Changelog: Support styling (bold, italic, cell colors ..) and cell width/height on paste from Excel/GSheets in Drawings
- Bold, italic, underline, strikethrough works
- Other types of styles unfortunately did not improve
- Cell height/width is somewhat changing, but is definitely not the same as from input
- Font size is not computed correctly from "pt" to "mm" (I believe that's why the cell sizing is wrong as well)
Thanks for looking into this 🙂
