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Re: simulation
Greetings Billy2,
As it turns out, we are in the very midst of research and development of improved and varied specialized elements. I am not at liberty to go into detail, but our goal is to provide (much) faster results for high-aspect ratio parts like the sheet metal models that you mentioned.
Once productized, these specialized elements may or may not be shells in the conventional sense, and you may or may not need to assign them directly. In the end, we aim to build upon the accuracy and ease of Onshape Simulation's existing workflow by inferring and properly applying as much intelligence to the system as we can, similar to our achievements in the automatic translation of Mates.
I look forward to the improvements that we have in store for the rest of the year; the introduction of Inertial Relief with Onshape 1.200 was the first of many to come. Thank you for your suggestion and thank you for using Onshape Simulation!
Best Regards,
Chris
Re: Trying to Draw Water Slide Having trouble with a sloped 3d Line
Waterslide-industry-adjacent engineer chiming in here: usually these tube slide segments are designed from a catalog of true circular arc fiberglass pieces that don't have any twist in the segments themselves but can be bolted together at any desired rotation. This saves on molding costs for unique slide parts for the whole build because fewer molds are required to construct the whole slide, and those molded segments not having twist or spline geometry makes them easier to manufacture because there's a flat plane of reference and consistent radius to check for.
Similar engineering constraints can be assumed for other big swoopy curved tube geometry and have led me to start work on a tangent arc chain custom feature but it's not yet ready for deployment.
The UI is a little clunky right now and I'd like to do more with manipulator placement of the curves and end points but the main two things this tool does is guarantee the curve segments are true circular arcs and that those arcs meet precisely at tangent constraints to one another in 3 dimensions.
Using the parts catalog to assembly approach described by Michael you could draw your segments with those constraints in mind and do most of your build at the assembly level with mate connectors between parts and get the same results.
Re: Named Positions vs Configurations – What's Your Preferred Workflow?
You can use configurations with "Exclude from properties" to avoid releasing all the configs.
S1mon
Re: Apple Vision Pro or Other VR headsets as alternative for monitors for CAD work
I was going to dive into AVP, but the price was just too high for me to justify at the time; even though the hardware is top notch. Also, Onshape didn't release a full app for AVP, just a model viewer. Which was a huge turn off. Another big issue with AVP is they have some major software limitations like how many virtual monitors you can bring up. No doubt they will make this better, but it had a rough launch. Still, the hardware it has is amazing.
Currently I'm waiting on Samsung to release Project Muhan that is planned to be released this quarter! Should be somewhere around 2k USD, lower than AVP (3.5k). It will also have several software advancements that will be a direct response to Apple. The real game changer with the release of Muhan is that this is the first device to have Google's Android XR. Lowering the barrier to entry by giving products access to a high quality XR platform. The difference this will make is very big. Imagine when apple released the first iPhone, there really weren't any true competitors until some decent android devices were released.
A nice analogy for some of the devices might look like this:
Meta Quest 3s = N64 / PS1
Apple Vision Pro = PS5
Samsung Muhan = PS4
Or perhaps a better analogy:
Meta Quest 3s = Palm Pilot Zire 72
Apple Vision Pro = iPhone 1
Samsung Muhan = T Mobile G1
FYI in a few years, people won't be using monitors any more, just virtual monitors. Yes, we'll still use the mouse and keyboard for some things, at least until we have a faster way to input, but the monitors are for sure going out the window for most I would say. Why would we use monitors when we already have them in our glasses? 😎
The question is do you make the switch now, or wait a while until the devices are cheaper, lower profile, more capable, etc..
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Re: Image sizing
It'll only work if the line is constrained to the image box. This can be achieved in a relative fashion using variables, but it's not very intuitive or easy in my experience.
You could also try this:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/20339/image-new-custom-feature
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 27th, 2025
This new UI is not something my coworkers and I are liking as of this moment logging into Onshape this morning. The icons are made even tinier than what we need it to be. Give us an option to determine what size we want for the folder structure and/or documents list. The split screen between folders and documents wasn't a needed feature for our company. We probably would've been fine this feature was placed to the side like the details information. I hate to say it, but this awful UI update overshadows all of the other updates that were actually decent.
KongThao
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 27th, 2025
The new UI update is… unfortunate. Would love to know where the option to revert to the original layout is.
I agree with other users that the new documents page is a big step backwards.
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?