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AI tool to enhance your renders: magnific.ai (maybe helps improve render studio results?)
In short, it's an upscaling + detail adding tool that uses generative AI to improve images: hand drawn, photos, renders, etc...
Of course, I'm most interested in the render part, to see how can things I make be made to look more photorealistic (or just cooler.)
Here are some samples of inputs and outputs, prompt is at the end of this post.
Since they don't have a free trial, let me know if you have any images you'd like me to run through it. Post your render here, and I'll post back with the generated result.
I just ask that you limit them to no more than about 1000x1000 pixels, since the cost scales a lot with image size.
Onshape render of mecanum wheel:
AI output:
Render of underwater robot (done in Blender since Render Studio kept crashing):
AI output:
The prompt/setup (same for both images):
alnis
Re: Why is inserting a view of a configured assembly instance into a drawing not possible?
Creating a "phantom" assembly (Move to new subassembly) of the configured assembly instance works around the inability to create a drawing view directly of a configured assembly instance. It certainly is a lot easier than creating a view of the parent assembly and hiding all the parts except those that make up the configured assembly instance.
I was able to create the drawing that describes how to derive the hinge from off-the-shelf hardware.
However, this method does come with some complications:
o The parent assembly structure gets an additional layer that doesn't make sense. An assembly instance that contains just one instance of an assembly.
o Any additional constraints that were added in the parent assembly to further restrict motion within the parent assembly, along with named positions are not copied into the subassembly.
o You have to switch to the "phantom" assembly to change the configuration of the configured assembly instance.
The above issues would be non-issues if OS had better part selection methods for hiding parts in a drawing view, or allowed selection of configured assembly instances when creating drawing views.
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StephenG
Re: Configurable text item (Sticker or Padprint)
There are a couple ways I can think of. You didnt specify if a composite part would do the job, but that's what I would recommend. Now: how to make different numbers of bodies all work in the same composite!
The first is to use this custom feature:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e2f3157a9eba6b34464401f1/v/5bbb442dbb8634fcef9693c7/e/0f7cc7c368165593e24abb3e
Take a look at "the cool way" and "the cool assembly" (save the uncool way for later).
What that feature does is create a closed composite from the bodies resulting from one or more other features (like your extrudes). So in your example, I create two extrude operations. One extrudes the word "Invariant" and the other extrudes "AAA" "BB" or "C" from the configured text. These features, then are supplied as inputs to the custom feature and it gathers up all the bodies up in to a single composite part "Composite part 1". Try it out. The number of bodies may change but the resulting composite does not. You can see in the assembly that the assembly is configured, and that the different assembly configurations reference the different configurations of the part studio. Easy peasy, keep it sleazy.
The second way is to grab my custom feature called "text".
Grab the latest version, and take a look at the examples in the doc that contains the custom feature. When the time comes to create solids, select "create composite". The feature parameters are all configurable, so you can configure the text to be whatever you want. The result will always be a single closed composite.
I think chaining the results of one operation to the input of another is a pretty great UI pattern that I would like to see more often in the standard library. Until then we just write our own.
NOTE: Just for fun, I tried to do this "the uncool way", which is:
create configured sketch,
3 different composite operations corresponding to each of the resulting body sets.
configure the part studio and configure the suppression of the composites.
Then, in the "uncool assembly", repeat the process. Insert the 3 different configs, then configure their suppression. I tried switching between them but it doesn't work. The composite body in the uncool way gets 3 different ids, so each time you switch configs in the assembly the instance reference gets broken.
Do it the cool way.
jnewth
Re: How to replicate sketch/extrusion across faces of extrusions from circular pattern?
Use an actual circular pattern feature (instead of drawing each pin)!
Re: Printable Onshape Keyboard/Mouse Shortcuts Quick Reference Card
Updated reference card to reflect the 3D Viewing (rotation) behavior change using the cursor keys in the latest update (1.191, 2024-12-13).
Here is the downloadable PDF…
StephenG
Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
I recently took a Catia/3D experience instructor led class. Took three month, and all I know now is that it is not the tool I could ever do my kind of work with. When participating in that, in the evenings, out of curiosity, I recreated each excercise in both Spaceclaim and Onshape. Bottom line: There wasn't much I would actually need Catia for (I don't do super high class surfacing), 3D experience as such is a mess, slow, and prices are ridiculous. I could afford another person to help modeling in OS full time for that and be three times as productive.
Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
I haven't touched Solidworks in years now, and have only a passing familiarity with the whole 3DExperience thing, but this blog post about it is gold. I guess Dassault just really wasn't happy with slowly improving their cash cow and wanted to rip everything up and integrate it more.
S1mon
Re: Configurable text item (Sticker or Padprint)
Awesome feature Joshua.
Greg brown also created a few simple features based on feature input to more easily take in however many parts are created by a feature.
these are called "auto Boolean' and 'auto rename', i just found he also has an 'auto composite'. (I like that naming convention)
