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Re: How to add standard part content from assembly workspace to part studio for editing ?.
Why do you want internal threads on this part? If it's off the shelf hardware, you don't necessarily need to model al the details.
S1mon
Re: Beam Deflection Showing Incorrect Result
You have fully fixed boundary conditions for your beam, so your equation should read delta_max = F*L^3/192*E*I
Also it is a really nice thing to do these hand calcs using variables:
Re: First sketch, only 1 square and still not defined
Hallo Jelte and Michael,
I have seen the light !!! I know what it means to 'dimension to the origin… It was just the terminology that confused me. I would have understood it easier, as a beginner, if it said: Start your drawing from the origin, the dot in the middle and draw the first lines, circles etc, by including this origin…
I am getting my way around and find out the things I need to make my design. Thanks and kind regards,
Jules.
Re: First sketch, only 1 square and still not defined
Hi Michael,
I found itLearning Pathways and 'absorbing' it…
Thanks and kind regartds, Jules.
Re: [Chatbot Copilot] - We Built a FeatureScript AI Assistant That Outperforms ChatGPT
Thank you everyone for your precious feedback and support! My company is excited to continue working on this project and actually launch something! There's still quite a bit of work ahead, but we're making progress. We're focusing on 2 key steps :
- Currently, the inference process is really expensive—around €30/month barely covers the calculation costs with medium frequency usage. We're actively working on optimizing everything to make it more affordable and scalable.
- We need to decide on the best way to deliver this tool—whether as a chatbot website, browser extension, or an Onshape app side panel. This is still under discussion and will take time to develop.
Once these challenges are resolved (hopefully within a month or two), we plan to launch a free beta to gather valuable feedback from the community. If you're interested in being a beta tester, feel free to send me a private message with your email address.
Thanks again for your thoughts and encouragement—this community has been incredibly helpful!
Re: Geometry doesn't update with change in composite surface
Probably has to do with crazy amount of points mesh files can have.. just a guess.
MDesign
Re: A question about B-Spline to Interpolated-Spline
What is the use case you are intending here?
You could approximate a given bspline at degree 3 (which is what interpolated curves are) then extract the position of the knots. This should get you pretty close to the locations of the "edit points" (as some systems call them) of an interpolated curve
Quick example in FeatureScript to approximate at deg=3 then get the knots:
const e = evApproximateBSplineCurve(context, {
"edge" : definition.edge,
"forceCubic" : true,
"forceNonRational" : true
});
for (var i = 0; i < size(e.knots); i += 1)
{
const knotPos = evEdgeTangentLine(context, {
"edge" : definition.edge,
"parameter" : e.knots[i]
});
debug(context, knotPos.origin, DebugColor.MAGENTA);
}