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Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 7th, 2025

Thanks for the Units update. Now can you make it so that if i need to change a document from Imperial to Metric units, there is a "one click" option to do so? Changing from ANSI to ISO or just Imperial to Metric so that all types are changed together is helpful rather than having to change each one individually.

Daniel_Sterling

Re: Saving an OnShape file for sharing

This is what you want.

Tech Tip: How to Create and Share Publications in Onshape

Publicly viewable, read only, snapshot.

jonathanb_sydney

Re: Parametric Offset in a Sketch

That's weird. I'm not sure why that is, but a workaround is to create the extrudes as new parts, and boolean them away after the pattern. Use the Auto Boolean feature from @GregBrown to make the selection always get all instances.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/63e1f8d60aa88e017c249fe7/w/bb4856e2ee4eb760f692b77c/e/7e5769f50657cf4285aa5f60

EvanReese

Re: How to save an animation?

Cool idea, but as far as I'm aware, isn't possible. This would be a good Improvement Request

EvanReese

Re: Can we please sort by Copies and Links when searching for Featurescripts? Please?

I can almost never find a FS when I want it, even when I have a close idea of what it was called. I end up doing a search in the forum for something I remember reading about, and find the original author and link that way.

nick_papageorge_dayjob

Re: Saving an OnShape file for sharing

STL is a waste of disk space. Don't share that format. Share STEP format instead if you want an actual file to share.

Otherwise, sharing a link is definitely the OS way.

nick_papageorge_dayjob

Re: Enter to confirm is inconsistent.

I find myself wanting this one all the time for sure. Especially so I can Shift+Enter to start a new sketch.

EvanReese

Re: Fastened mate orientation error/bug/unexpected behaviour

Hi.

So we didn't get off to the best of starts, so here is an olive branch.

Looking at your first example you have placed a pair of local coordinate systems (aka mate connectors) onto your parts.

When we make use of those connectors in a Mate feature they will be brought together and the parts will be transformed such that these axis align.

By the power of Smints...

Add mate connectors:-

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/rj/4bfrz0reef5k.jpg

Add a mate.

Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/cs/8u4vnaw15tvn.jpg

In this case it is a fastened mate, so there are no degrees of freedom. Note the orientation of the red axis in my photo and your first screen-grab This is absolutely the expected outcome of this mate. (Other than the fact that I can't press the tins into overlapping space!)

A "revolute mate" allows one degree of freedom (within whatever limits you chose) it does not describe the rotation of a fastened mate as the axis are aligned in the mating process. So the revolute allows a mechanism to rotate one mated.

Placing mates is aided by using the shift key when on the planar surface to de-clutter inferences. After it's placed reorientation or rotation can be made to the placement, but often its simpler to place them on the required vertex and then use the flip and rotate quadrant in the mating operation to gain the desired orientation rather than insist on placing the mate connector with each axis pointing in a defined orientation.

Creating explicit mates in PartStudios at whatever rotations and offsets you prescribe is a very powerful and hopefully intuitive way of either moving parts around or building up assemblies. (This is relevant to your second question. Mates don't just slide parts towards each other. They align all three axis of their mates. So the orientation of the mate must be considered. There several ways to control this, but perhaps that's another topic.)

In the main in the last 4 years I've been on this forum users tend to love mate connectors and take to them easily. Movement limits in assemblies can more challenging but Onshape have gone to some lengths to improve things there.

I don't know if your interpretation of my answer that is in turn an interpretation of your question meets your expected outcome, but either way please don't down-vote this comment, or anyone else trying to help you, without a damn good reason.

Happy CADing!

Cheers,

Owen S.

owen_sparks

Re: Custom keyboard shortcut for view modes

How have you made these 'camera and render options' into a keyboard shortcut? I'm trying to figure out how to put the camera mode into 'translucent' (or 'shaded with edges') but I can't see where that's an option?

Any help is appreciated!

Harrison_Low

Can we please sort by Copies and Links when searching for Featurescripts? Please?

I'm trying to find useful Featurescripts, but I can't really search by name, because they're unpredictable in the exact wording.

I can search Public for all Featurescripts, but I really want to sort by Copies and Links to find popular ones. Can this be done? @NeilCooke ?

joshtargo