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Re: Where Used Without Where Used And Part Confusion
@colin_starker933 - Take Ste_Wilson's advice, and take the free, self-paced courses in the learning center - they do a better job explaining the process than I could ever do.
And as clarification, When I mentioned "library" - this is only a folder that you created and named yourself, where you keep special parts that you know you will use again. This one folder can be shared with your entire group - and this is where you all go for buy-out items, such as screws, nuts, and bolts…etc. - assuming standard content doesn't have what you need. The level of detail your parts have or, don't have is completely up to you. The idea when dealing with custom or oddball hardware, is to have a place to store them so everyone in your group can easily find them later. Inserting from this folder into "assemblies" will never make duplicates
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 10th, 2025
Great first update of the year! I love the configuration input visibility capability. This will be a big help. I'm also a fan of the Note Order change as bottoms-up notes are really common in many company standards. Additions to document metadata is also really powerful and shows investment into the underpinnings and robustness of the overall product. The Change Log also has 12 items that start with the word "Fixed". It's great to see Onshape staying serious about fixing bugs.
Excited to see what 2025 holds!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 10th, 2025
@don_williams909 , depending on exactly what your model needs to look like this might already be possible with a workaround of existing tools. Just takes some planning of the design and appropriately positioned reference planes/points for positioning your hole.
Our new Flatten surfaces tool allows you to lay things flat after modeling and then export that flat to a DXF. There are some caveats to that regarding distortion and bend allowances not being included in the current tool but it can definitely get you a starting point for sending over to a laser or waterjet.
Note that in my example below, the part is a thin extrude, not a regular sheet metal part.
Just an idea to help you out if you haven't already tried this approach.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 10th, 2025
Thank you for the sheet metal feature. This is one of many feature updates we have been asking for and it is great to finally see sheet metal getting a bit of love. Keep 'em coming!
J_Fitch
Re: ¿how to make a rectangular spiral?
Michael is using a clever technique in the linear pattern. The variable count is equal to count+1. So, when he patterns it, it increments each time. So, the dimension (offset * count) will grow for each instance of the pattern. This technique is seen in this course.
As for my approach, you could just copy my code into a new FS tab in your document and use my feature or use the Add custom features button.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 10th, 2025
This release makes configurations extremely powerful having all possible combinations. What a big update. Thank you Onshape
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 10th, 2025
The configuration visibility is great.
I'd love to see more complex logic allowed and using variable values to set condition.
Like if a variable is within a range, show another configuration property.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 10th, 2025
A few lightweight changes and one massive one: configuration input visibility is a clever way to get some logic built into configurations. Hopefully logic driven configurations gets expanded to offer even more powerful things than just visibility.
S1mon
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 10th, 2025
The configuration update is huge for us. We use configurations extremely heavily and this update is long awaited. Hopefully we can look forward to more configuration updates in the near future.
