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How to restrict @ in Comments to only show students/educators in my classroom
I am trying to assign a comment to a student, and when I start typing his name, Onshape suggests 5 similar names, none of whom I know, and none of whom are on my teams or in my classroom. How can I make it only show people related to the project?
Re: Sometime my curved sketches extrude straight
That is probably just rendering. Try turning on "View in high quality" to see if that clears things up. Curved sketches will create curved surfaces. And circular sketches will create circular features, but might be rendered as polygons. Below are the same two shapes, one rendered in high quality.
Re: Rectangle icon missing - view has a dark bacground instead of white
In Onshape, a black screen indicates that you are having a graphics rendering problem (or you're in dark mode). If you are in Chrome, check to make sure hardware acceleration is enabled:
- Go to chrome://settings/
- System
- Make sure “use hardware acceleration when available” is checked.
- Go to chrome://flags/
- Make sure “Override software rendering list” is Enabled.
Re: Documentation for btTypes
Thanks Konst_Sh, your answer led me to find the schema, so I'll mark it as correct. Just for clarity though, the endpoint is <https://cad.onshape.com/api/openapi>, and the schema is also on glassworks (but unexpanded and at the bottom of the page, I had completely missed it!).
Re: Using section and brake view on the same view
@Dima_Medvednik Not at the moment, but we are working on it.
Using section and brake view on the same view
Hi, is it possible in any way?
I currently find that after I used section view on a certain view. there is no ability to make the both work on the same view?
Re: Point on a Curve?
Hey no rush on my end. Not sure how much more I will fiddle with this feature but it was fun.
Re: Point on a Curve?
now CT Points (https://cad.onshape.com/documents/431001f3ab91995c47ba6ed6/w/5e9df1075d3421cf9a79e741/e/170e901b21b8387245d0668e) custom feature supports creating points closest to a given reference

Re: Custom Feature: Mold & Die Design
@NeilCooke I love this toolset for rough tooling layouts and cavitation estimates.
I have been trying to use Variables to set the Mold width offset or the overall mold stock width….but it doesn't seem to work. It can take the variable and the value once, but then once you accept the Mold Stock feature, it no longer uses the variable.
Is this expected?
I'm guessing that you might ignore these because it might allow a user to make a mold stock that is smaller than the part.
Thanks again for a great toolset - and I second all the folks calling for a full-fledge feature set for the real tooling designers using Onshape.
Re: Custom Feature: Mold & Die Design
Hey @romeograham ,
Have you tried the 'update' button? (right behind the Depth total input)
Out of curiosity (I've only developed injection molds in Onshape and saw people working in Solidworks):
What other feature's are you missing for tooling designers for onshape to become 'full fledge'?