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Re: What does Onshape have against the numbers 0,4,6,8,9 and the letters A,B,D,O,P,Q and sometimes R
I did figure out how to make an outline text that the characters can be updated fairly painlessly for the most part⦠uses a text featurescript to start and it creates a sketch for each character. Used extrude for the main character thicker than desired final thickness by some predetermined shell thickness, shell each character one face then an extrude cut the back face sketches the shell thickness and it leaves a nice out line.
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Re: Linking Objects
Hi @dylan_ball058,
Try these things:
- Share a (public) document so people can have a closer look to help out
- Create a sketch that connects point A to point B
- Sketch a profil for your tube that you want to use to connect the two points
- Use the Sweep command to create the tube along the path
Re: Render Battle #6 - Coffee time β(Winner gets a real Prize!)
@bryan_lagrange nice rendering! Could you add a read heart between "I" and Onshape?
Re: Set Color and Material - New FeatureScript
@severin_schranz895 I can't speak for Onshape's plans on that. But I do know render studio already does this based on the parts selected material.
Also it would not be difficult to make a custom feature that does this. Simply one click at the end of your feature tree, then it would update all the part colors based on material. Due to featurescript limitations, there would need to be a refresh button on the feature to manually refresh if any parts changed material or new parts became available. This could also be done via app, but that is more dev time.
Feel free to reach out if you need any custom features to speed up your Onshape workflows. π
Turn off the light reflexes in OnShape?
Hi there.
I wonder if you can turn off the light reflexes in OnShape? See image below.
Thanks in advance for your help!
//erik_svensson430
Re: Render Battle #6 - Coffee time β(Winner gets a real Prize!)
Thanks for kicking us off @bryan_lagrange! This is going to be fun!
It's time to up the stakes a bit. This year, the 1st place winner is going to receive a custom print Render Battle 2025 jersey hoodie. π
Re: How do I insert a Part Studio from history
Use Versions and history. Go back to the point where you had the part studio. Right-click "create version here." Then create a branch. Then go back to Main. Then merge branch into main. Make sure you use "Replace with B1" as the tab merge strategy for the deleted tab.
Re: This type of error makes my experience of onshape incredibly frustrating
Hi @martin_danger, thanks. Yes, I did intentionally remove it.
I think you've made a fair point about your user experience with Onshape, one I strongly empathize with. You provided a worked example to illustrate your point.
(A) Others in this thread have been very practical and shared their time and expertise to provide solutions to your worked example. That's to their credit and our benefit. And that's all the user community can do.
(B) As helpful as the user community are, it still doesn't address the root cause of the point you're trying to make. If your user experience is anything like mine, you could have just as easily have posted many other examples. Some of them will be user errors, some of them will be sub-optimal modelling practices, some of them may be limitations of the software for which there are work-arounds, and some of them may be bugs. Irrespective of what they are, it all detracts from the user experience because they're blockers and there is very little feedback provided by the software to help the user get over those blocks. And posting it on a forum to get support from the user community, or reporting it to support, doesn't feel like it should be the panacea.
I deleted my post because, as valid as I think (B) is, I didn't want it to detract from (A).
In summary, if instead of those annoying NPS surveys Onshape send out from time-to-time, if instead they asked "From your user point of view, would you prefer if Onshape invested resources into (1) adding more features, and if so which ones?, (2) Improving the UX? or (3) improving testing, bug-fixing and making the system more stable, reliable and deterministic?" My answer would be along the lines of "I'm currently having a lot of trouble getting Onshape to understand my design intent and it feels a bit unstable. I really don't know if (2) or (3) would help me more. But as interesting as features like generative design and more simulation functionality are to me, I definitely would NOT vote for (1) at this stage"