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Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025
regarding DXF Export: Please add a general setting to permanently export in millimeters. After this update we have to always change to millimeters befor export, it causes already some troubles, when we forgot to change it… In my opinion DXF's are unitless, so all you do is scaling it, which shouldn't be done in CAD.
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[Feature Request] - Configurable minimums/maximums for Configuration Variables
It would be nice if I could either directly configure the definition values for a configuration variable or use another configuration variable and expressions inside of them. I find myself wishing this was a thing pretty often when setting up complex configurations, so I can avoid invalid values more easily depending on other values instead of having to do broad limits.
Chris_Kelly
change visibility conditions never loads
This has been a bug for months and hasn't been fixed. It completely blocks a huge part of my workflow. I have made a bug report. If you have a part studio with a configuration checkbox and a configuration variable, and you set a visibility condition for the variable so it only shows when the box is checked, then you save that, it just keeps loading forever. I left it for hours and it doesn't load. Like I said, I made a bug report months ago but nothing has been done.
Re: Perf patterns in sheet metal?
3 years ago I was doing this for a few parts. I was running into very slow regeneration times. Some of my patterns were for EMI of high frequency and were quite small size/large qty. I found that applying the pattern to a separate part first, then bolean subtraction that part to the real sheetmetal, saved a lot of processing time.
I also found the FS's to make this simpler were more resource intense. So I would sketch qty 1 (or qty 2 if a hex pattern), and pattern them to the dummy part manually.
Also found doing this after "finish sheet metal" made a world of difference. I relented to doing it there.
Now, a couple years later, I know sheetmetal has had a lot of performance improvements. IDK if my comments are still valid.
Re: Part Inheritance/Parent and Child Parts?
did you check this video of @GregBrown on top down design?
someone also recreated this featurescript already.
As long as the references are one directional and minimal, things should be OK in terms of speed. Just make sure you don't refer back and forth too much.
Re: Best Practices for Optimizing Designs for 3D Printing in Onshape
- I design pretty much all my parts to not require supports. Makes my life a lot easier. That means try to limit overhangs to less than 45 degrees. Small horizontal holes can be printed without doing anything special, in my experience.
- Thin sections in a horizontal direction (parallel to the layers) make for fragile prints.
- If you design a hole to the exact diameter of a bolt, you can just screw it in and it'll make its own threads (e.g., 5mm for M5). Add 0.4mm for a hole that won't interfere with the bolt.
- I have a (so far unpublished, buyer beware) custom feature that basically makes an up-to-with-offset counterbore. Good for fastening prints to things when I know what bolts I have and how much I want them to protrude (e.g., protrude 6mm, bolt is 10mm, so offset should be 4mm).
- Hollowing out your part to save material will probably not save you material and may make the part weaker. Judicious use of the Lighten feature, on the other hand, may add structural integrity.
_anton
Re: Unit conversion
Re: derived feature in part studio, hiding derived sketches
Your document hasn't been updated lately.
Trash the document and then recover from trash. It will put up a dialog about updating next time you open. Once updated it will behave as S1mon says.
Re: Extruding a QR code
Never mind. I was not using all the options correction. Thanks! This is cool.