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Re: Improvements to Onshape - November 22nd, 2024
A guess about why OS have done it this way …
… It provides OS with the flexibility to change functionality of this later. They can change assumptions, change default behaviour, change functionality, or even add functionality without having to worry about backward compatibility.
If they had allowed it to be integrated into the parametric tree, and then made changes to functionality later, users would rightfully get very upset if a parametric model that was perfectly fine yesterday / last week / last month / last year is today either materially different or even broken for no apparent reason other than a software update. OS could create model migration filters to handle changes (as they have done in the past), but that adds more development, testing, processing (and risk) that is probably better spent elsewhere.
There is the possibility that the export - import functionality that has been implemented here could result in a different outcome between versions, but as this is a manual process under user control, there is far less risk of this leading to user angst. Us users expect to have to fix something up whenever we re-import it.
Edit: What Ilya said.
Re: how can I have a single set of configs across parts studio, assembly, and drawings
If the drawing is directly referencing the part, you would arrive in the part studio where you could export from the flat pattern flyout. If the drawing is of the assembly, you would arrive at the assembly where you could right click on the part from the assembly tree and select "switch to reference" or "open linked document"
Re: How to make a plane perpendicular to an arbitrary view
Perhaps! But @EvanReese's solution of Freeform Spline + the Final button works perfectly. Almost beyond perfectly, TBH. I've been using it this past week and it's almost too good to be true.
I showed this to some people in my org, and they were blown away as well. No idea how that flew under my radar for so long, but thanks so much for cluing me into it!
Re: "Cannot resolve entities" error with sheet metal tool
Sheet metal does not support revolved surfaces - it can only handle surfaces which can be unrolled onto plane precisely. Try Flatten surface functionality instead https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/analysis_tools.htm#Flatten
lana
Re: Rendering in Education
Hi, I'm new to OnShape and I want to know if there has been any changes in regard the use of Render Studio for Education licences.
Thanks for your help.
Akhepra
Re: is there a way to automatically set material to all your designed parts?
Maybe we should suggest it as a request feature!
Re: is there a way to automatically set material to all your designed parts?
I think what might be most useful would be a "part template" system.
That way you could apply sets of properties to parts in one go, maybe even just an extension of "categories" to including some data (instead of just the fields) and then you would just need to be able to set one to use by default…
