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Enclose failure samples
It happens to all of us. Caused either by "oops, I forgot to select a surface" or a tiny sliver face that you didn't notice until you put "highlight boundary conditions" on.
Are there some particular, difficult-to-diagnose examples of Enclose that anyone can share?
Jason_S
Re: Configuration Horizontal Scroll
@oliver_august I hear your frustration. As it currently stands, would using the shift+scroll shortcut to horizontally scroll through the configuration table fix this issue for you? This is how I navigate the configuration table and how I used to navigate the BOM until they added a persisting horizontal scrollbar in their latest improvements. Offering this as a suggestion as it seems a lot of people aren't aware of this keyboard shortcut! The attached gif is showing the behavior of using shift+scroll on Mac.
Re: Anyone know of a feature for replacing multiple tangent faces with a single face?
It's just a multi span degree-3 curve. Internally it's G2. Often where these go from an arc to a straight line, you get really ugly results, because the input is only G1 and it has to do more of an approximation to smooth that to G2.
S1mon
Re: Configuration Horizontal Scroll
I´m a little bit astonished that almost no one seems to be upset about this.
This bug really SUCKS.
I´m not working with OS for six years as the TO, but this one ist a pain to me all the time - it tears me out of concentration on what I have to do over and over again.
An absolutely unnecessary waste of time
The bug is obviously known for six years now - and nothing happened to fix it… to me it´s annoying time and time again.
Entering Dimensions in Onshape Directly From Your Digital Tape Measure
Hello all! I wanted to share a cool application today where you can directly update dimensions in Onshape (via any text input field) directly from your REEKON Digital Tape Measure. We had a few people reach out to us asking for how to do this and we put together a tutorial video and article showing how easy it is. This is a great way to getting real dimensions into your CAD model and is literally as simple as connecting over Bluetooth, selecting measurement field, and hitting the save button.
Let us know if you have any questions or if you would like to see any other functionality or features added to aid in your workflows!
-Christian, REEKON Tools
Re: Entering Dimensions in Onshape Directly From Your Digital Tape Measure
Nice. I have calipers connected to my computer via USB so I can enter measurements taken on small parts directly into my Onshape model. I'd be willing to pay extra for a BTLE version, though, to get rid of the cable and expand the radius. ;0)
NON-MANIFOLD errors visual explanation (zero thickness)
Just ran into this image and thought it would be a great visual for new users looking for answers to why they are seeing non-manifold errors on their designs preventing features from being successful. Also can be described as zero thickness geometry.
MDesign
Re: Toothpaste
You could even go a bit further if your main goal is visualization, and wrap a decal onto it 😎
Currently, the Decal tool is a bit of a pain for multi surfaces and non privative shapes. Also, it blurs the images.. But, with some work-arounds:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a3afe28775cf843b691682ee/w/e93282660f1f9dd6c661a89f/e/6d92f3cf6e6aa4efa669e6…
Re: Anyone know of a feature for replacing multiple tangent faces with a single face?
I feel like I experimented with this at some point and ran into issues with fit spline surfaces not playing nice with the existing edge boundaries when I attempted it.
