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Custom Feature: Triad Transform
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Onshape's vanilla transform feature doesn't give you those nice buttery smooth rotation handles to play with like the assembly tabs do, which is a shame because some of the most aesthetically pleasing structures aren't confined to the bounds of XYZ coordinates. I mean look at these crystal clusters moving around the screen as freeform as can be.
Wait was that a feature dialog window?
It sure was.
I've been working on some projects recently that necessarily need to be freed from the confines of coordinate grids and as much as I love the standard rotation transform and mate connector to mate connector transform they weren't letting the creative juices flow. So I made Triad Transform to bring that sweet full triad manipulator to the part studio environment. Use this tool to make your D&D minis look more organic and lively. Use this tool when your boss wants you to nudge that part over that way and rotate it 45 degrees just for looksies real quick, and he doesn't understand the difference between part studios and assemblies. Use this tool on your coworker's parts and hide it in their feature tree so that all of their drawing views are 0.5° out of alignment and watch them tear their hair out trying to figure out why their dimensional callouts aren't working. The possibilities are endless.
Re: How can I delete a drawing template
shanshan
Re: opBoolean() with BooleanOperationType.INTERSECTION fails with @opBoolean: BOOLEAN_BAD_INPUT
just FYI: I just took the effort to publish the basic boolean feature
Re: Custom Feature: Query Variable+
@Konst_Sh Those could be really useful. I also realized that I might be able to get some use out of a generally tolerant equal to size query since I've already got the conditions built for larger than / equal and smaller than / equal. Different from qMatching if I'm looking for things that differ in geometry.
@jelte_steur_info I implemented a modified version of tolerant parallel that doesn't assume a qEverything because there are cases where I'd like to filter for parallelish items on a specific subset of queries. To make it up to you I also implemented qEverything so you can still get the job done with two QV+s in a trenchcoat. Actually I needed some qEverything for other use-cases anyway so we can knock that one off the list.
Improvements to Onshape - December 12, 2025
Happy holidays from Onshape! The last official Onshape release of 2025 offers some highly requested goodies, including robust methods for displaying hole quantities on drawings, never before seen realism with the Volume entity in Render Studio Advanced, and CAM Studio usability improvements.
DRAWINGS
QUANTITY FOR HOLE CALLOUTS
Hole callouts in Drawings now support displaying quantities, improving clarity when documenting drilled holes.
RECTANGULAR BORDER FOR DETAIL VIEW CREATION
Detail views now support a rectangular boundary option in addition to circular profiles, splines, and closed polygons.
RENDER STUDIO ADVANCED
VOLUME ENTITY
Render Studio Advanced introduces Volumes, enabling more realistic visualizations of volumetric objects such as fluids, smoke, gels, or translucent bodies. A volume can optionally be an OpenVDB 3D texture. Non-advanced users can open a scene that contains Volumes, but their properties are non-editable. Learn how to Create a Volume.
Sample OpenVDB volumes can be found at https://www.openvdb.org/download/
CAM STUDIO
CAM JOBS USER INTERFACE
The Jobs tree in CAM Studio has been redesigned to align more closely with native Onshape UI patterns, improving usability, clarity, and consistency across the platform.
HOLE CUTTING STRATEGY
Hole selection workflows now support improved ordering behavior, allowing hole-making operations to follow more predictable and intuitive selection sequences.
REVERSE FACE NORMALS
A new option allows you to reverse face normals directly within CAM operations, simplifying toolpath generation and reducing the need to modify geometry in the Part Studio.
MOBILE
SUPPORT FOR CONFIGURABLE VARIABLE STUDIOS
The Onshape mobile apps for iOS and iPadOS now support viewing details of configurable Variable Studios, allowing you to understand part and assembly behavior directly on mobile devices.
LEARNING CENTER
INSPECTION AND REPAIR TOOLS
The Learning Center now offers the Inspection and Repair Tools course, where you’ll learn how to detect and resolve missing references using Onshape’s diagnostic tools, including the Profile Inspector, Constraint Manager, and Repair panel.
ARTICLES
Build a strong foundation in Onshape Assemblies with the newly updated Mating Basics article, which introduces core mating strategies in a clear and refreshed format.
Learn best practices for sharing projects, folders, and documents with users outside your Enterprise in the Sharing Outside an Enterprise article.
Learn how to set up and manage Onshape’s integration with Arena in the Onshape Arena Connection Admin Guide article.
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. Mobile app interface updates occur via the Apple App store or Google Play store and happen in the days following the update.
