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Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Cone Sheet Metal BABY! This is Huge. Seems so small but the math can be intense
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Need to play around with the width mate, although at first glance I was surprised it doesn't seem to have "limits" so it seems like it will another mate to lock things in place, which seems less than ideal…
CAM Studio Beta Coming to EDU Enterprise
We are excited to share that CAM Studio (Beta version) is now available in our Onshape Education Enterprise plan! This feature was included in the latest release on Friday, June 6, 2025 and is the industry’s first cloud-native CAM solution of its kind. If you are an Education Enterprise user, you automatically have access to CAM Studio.
This new feature:
- Supports 2.5 and 3-axis machining strategies
- Supports a broad range of machines, cutting tools (including custom tools/libraries), and post-processors
- Has built-in machine simulation allowing users to simulate their tool paths before putting them into practice on their CNC machine
- Takes advantage of Onshape’s robust PDM capabilities to allow more seamless and collaborative development of toolpaths
To help get you started, head over to the Onshape Learning Center and complete the Introduction to CAM Studio course. Please note that while CAM Studio is not available in our other education plans at this time, we are always evaluating the features each plan contains. We look forward to hearing your feedback as you begin to explore the Beta of CAM Studio in your Education Enterprise!
Naomi_E
Re: Improvements to Onshape - May 16th, 2025
I see a version name commit for assembly mirror. They're coming for me lol
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Well this is indeed a bunch of great features and quality of life improvements!
I hope that Width mate will handle drafted features. That's one of the biggest frustrations with the between entities mate connector.
S1mon
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
So, on further investigation of the width mate, it solves one issue with the between entities mate connector - it will accurately find the mid-plane of two non-parallel mate connectors. What it doesn't do is constrain the parts fully. That wasn't 100% obvious in the demo video. It's just a planar mate.
What I thought it would do would be to (internally) construct two finite length axes with midpoints, and then make both axes coincident and the two midpoints coincident.
The parts in this screen shot below have a width mate, but there's no way that I can figure out to add another mate that will put that roller where I want, without adding reference geometry to the parts.
If the two flanges are parallel, I can add a cylindrical mate on one end and the parts are controlled nicely, but the minute the flanges are angled (e.g. for ease of assembly or manufacture) then the cylindrical mate fails. I guess what I'm looking for is a combo of ball/cylindrical mate where one mate connector would describe a point and the other an axis, and the axis would always go through the point.
S1mon
Re: Modelling Rope or String
A realistic rope is probably best left to software that's focused on visuals and let Onshape be for manufacturing data. If you absolutely must do it in Onshape for some reason, here's a passable way, but the regeneration time ain't pretty.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Horizontal scrollbar on BOM - I have been waiting years for this !!! Do configuration tables work the same way? If not, they should.
Good job Onshape team - much appreciated.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Hoo boy. This sheet metal update is pretty fantastic:
romeograham