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Re: Is it possible to make an inserted sketch containing an image in an assembly opaque?
Update: The 1.175 - 2024-01-12 update adds the "Decal" function. The Wrap function allows an image to placed/wrapped onto a planer or cylindrical face.

Re: Adding non-geometry items to BOM's
Re: New Custom Feature: Animate
I have to agree with @ben_partouch , this is both amazing and clearly needs to be a real piece of functionality. This is much better than nothing, but anyone doing animation is going to want to be able to drag break points around on a timeline much more graphically. It's nice to be able to control things in real physical values (e.g. m/s and m^2/s), but visually controlling things is often preferred. Being able to drag the assembly directly and record a position and then have Onshape animate between those positions would be a much more typical approach.
I'm also surprised that the ease-in ease-out is only rounded for linear motion. It's probably good enough for basic animation, but if you look at 3D animation tools or motion graphic tools, there are typically a large number of ease-in/out options.

Re: New Custom Feature: Animate
This is amazing. So creative and manipulative in the good sense of the word.
But at the end this is very not OS to me.. It's a lot of work for something that clearly needs to be much more automated and native in it's own studio.
Looks like you guys are almost there anyway 😉.
Thanks for sharing this!
New Custom Feature: Animate
This custom feature expands on John's method and adds a level of automation. Below is a tutorial video showing all the steps to animate a UR Cobot, from building the animation timeline to adding the relevant gear relations in the assembly. Apologies for the length of the video, but it does go into a lot of detail. Please leave any comments or suggestions below.
Animate - Custom Feature: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8afc165187d023c4d83554ff
