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Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 27th, 2025
As a test user with early visibility to the documents page I will say that it took some getting used to but have grown to appreciate it. I like that if I am working in a particular project or folder and don't need to see subfolders I can minimize that portion of the screen and it takes up virtually no real estate and can look at Documents only.
Some other really big updates for us tho, this was a great release! I like the UI (after getting used to it) and some standard content additions, exclude from this BOM, library subfolders and Onshape-Arena enhancements are huge for us!
CLB_48
Last version export rule
Hi!
I am not professional user (student version) and I have following workflow:
- edit part in part studio
- create version
- export object from part studio
I would like to create and export rule with automatically incrementing version number based on latest version. The workspceOrVersion.name property doesn't work because I am usually on the main workspace.
Is there any good way of achieving this?
Re: Image sizing
Once you see it/do it. it doesn't get much easier. No constraints necessary in fact discouraged probably, ha. You can constrain say a corner of the image then scale it, but you can't locate it with dimensions and then scale it. Scaling must be done first with a single dimension.
Developers note: this is an example of why I dislike the transform tool with a passion for scaling there is no easy method to scale geometry without taking measurements and doing the math to get the scale factor that the tool needs for imput..
MDesign
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 27th, 2025
yeah, the current left side menu can be flattened in the row on top, and then the left panel can be purely occupied with the folder tree
Konst_Sh
Measured Angle Variable - Feature Request
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/21163/why-cant-i-define-a-variable-as-a-measured-angle
This forum thread indicates that this is already an open feature request, but searching here, I don't see it. So… Please add the functionality requested in the OP of the link. Thanks.
edit: Nevermind. I found it in the improvment request category that I didn't know existed until now :-)
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/20138/measurement-variables-for-angles#latest
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 27th, 2025
Happy 200th!!! Some great improvements here.
Re: Frame Cut Lists K-Factor is 1?
Hey @Derek_Van_Allen_BD sorry meant to reply before this.
I posted something about the way cut list lengths are calculated a while back but it might take some digging to find the original post.
In your particular case (if I read it right that is: "planar circular bends of profiles that don't produce edges") I think that hits the codepath in cutlistMath of getLengthAndAnglesWithoutEdges(165) → getCircularArcBeamDimensions (228) → getMaxRadiusEdge.
You could experiment there (with a modified cutlistmath) to tune the approximation more to your liking. Even so, for profiles that don't produce edges (circular profiles), we end up creating isoparam curves (174) so an average "edge" might not be the exact centerline either.
Some background:
Cutlist lengths are not exact. I think they are at best, exact, and at worst, strict overestimates. As I (now dimly) recall there were several considerations that informed our strategy:
1. The neutral axis analysis for tube bending worked remarkably well in my textbooks and never at all in my experience. In my experience it's always an underestimate, and…
2. Underestimates are a pain in fabrication (it's hard to make a steel tube longer, easier to grind it shorter).
3. But the biggest factor is not obvious: Frames current implementation doesnt have the swepth path centerline information at length calculation time (and sometimes doesnt exist) so it's not used. If I were to rewrite frames today, I would certainly try to write this information (the defining edge / points / curve whatever) as an attribute for retrieval at custlist length calculation time so it could be used downstream but…
4. At the time I couldn't come up with such a strategy that worked in all cases (including oddball trimming cases). The solution I eventually got to was a reasonably robust and performant set of heuristics (cutlistMath.fs). But you can put it on my tombstone: "Geometric heuristics are guaranteed to be wrong some of the time".
Hopefully that sheds some light on why it works that way. It was intended to solve most problems adequately/workably for fabrication, rather than any but the simplest problems perfectly. But I know you can write your own cutlist calcs in for your application. Let me know what you come up with! Would love to hear about it.
jnewth
Re: Problem with OnShape
The curve constraint ensures that two curves (e.g. Bézier curves) have the same curvature at the connection point. This constraint does not turn straight lines into curves.
Public document search is bizarrely limited!
I really think it'd benefit everyone if the search on public documents would at least allow sorting by likes.
When initially viewing the Public documents list, you can sort, but not after searching!
Maybe it's a bug?
jezmck