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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 🙂
Re: Improvements to Onshape - November 22nd, 2024
Christmas is early this year, thickness analysis tool 🤤 amazing!

Re: Custom Materials List
I think it's better to let go of trying to add plant species to the material list.
It's probably more suitable to create a custom property LAI and set it with a simple FS and call upon those to calculate the Green Plot Ratio.
same goes for the plants area, which may need some additional selection. I don't know how you model this, but if they are parts, how else is Onshape going to know which surfaces of the part to be using for the calculation?
Re: Mass moment of inertia
- Moments of inertia
- Calculated with respect to the common centroid of the selected parts/faces (not the Part Studio/assembly origin)
- For parts, calculated using the densities of the assigned materials assigned. Any selected parts without materials assigned are omitted from the calculation. If no materials are assigned to any selected parts, no calculation is made.
Re: Is there a way to change default part colours? (Blue, then gray, then dark blue, etc.)
So for the non techie that's a hard NO to the original question. 😃

Re: Is there a way to change default part colours? (Blue, then gray, then dark blue, etc.)
Colour cycle is hard coded.
Re: Mass moment of inertia
also, you can provide a Mate connector as a reference frame for the calcs.