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Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 27th, 2025

I really liked the grid view of the old documents page. I find myself visually scanning the thumbnails to find the right document and that's harder with the change to a linear list with only 6-10 showing at a time instead of 20+.

seth_troisi

Re: External Editor

kevin_o_toole_1 said:

There isn't an easy way of doing this.

Ideally, we want to make the experience editing FeatureScript inside a Feature Studio great. Feature Studios have some nice features that an offline editor would be missing, like autocomplete of all your imported libraries, versioning with your onshape documents, and automatic rebuilding of Part Studios when you commit.

If your favorite editor has specific features that you'd like Onshape Feature Studios to also support, please submit an improvement request!

I don't see an economical path that would make editing FeatureScript inside a Feature Studio "great". I can't imagine an experienced programmer working within the existing editor being anything other than incredibly frustrated. I'm not criticizing the existing effort as a bare-bones tool for adding very simple features, but there's no way you can (or should) compete with an editor that's had decades of person-years put in to addressing the needs of programmers.

Just off the top of my head, the following features are missing:

split editor windows (opening in separate tabs is quite cumbersome)
search/replace over multiple FeatureScript Files
refactoring
code folding
edit key bindings
bookmarking
ability to implement new features inside the editor

These and at least a dozen other features are pretty much expected in even the most basic programmer's editor.

Although syntax highlighting, autocomplete, and other features might be initially missing from an external editor, they'd be relatively easy to implement if we had even a rudimentary file/workspace api to interface with Onshape. FeatureScript has the advantage of being mostly like javascript, so it wouldn't be very hard to tweak existing javascript editors to accommodate FeatureScript. Most importantly, it's a task that the community could tackle - and we currently CAN'T change the built-in editor as far as I'm aware.

dan_bullok

Re: Render Studio

A year later here, I'm wondering if there is any movement about adding Render availability to the Edu edition? Thanks!

dougosgood

Re: mm in Part Studio - Inches in Drawing Studio

Dimensioning on the 2D drawing only works on orthogonal views (head-on). It does not work in isometric views (the tilted ones). That's why the numbers don't match up.

nick_papageorge_dayjob

Re: Hole marking from side view

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/118583#Comment_118583

Perfect! Thank you very much!

nagy_laszlo

Re: Workspace Protection in practice?

Wow. Ouch. That's super useful information which basically makes the feature too painful to recommend unless you're always making changes and merging back within a shorter time window.

S1mon

Thanks Onshape

quiero agradecer al equipo de Onshape por construir la unica herramienta que me ha permitido diseñar sin problemas ni restricciones cosas basicas pero que me entretienen. los programas CAD de pago con licencia y que exigen grande equipos no eran accesibles. no solo resolvieron el problema de recursos, si no que el de ediciones, modificaciones y acceso a los archivos. si no que tambien ofrecen licencia gratuita de prueba. aunque tenga solo 30 dias para utilizarla muchas gracias.

marcelo_bravo

Re: Custom Feature: Cable/Wire Routing

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/118643#Comment_118643

The flatten feature is well advanced but requires some other dependencies to be competed first. Plan is sometime during the summer for first release.

NeilCooke

Re: Workspace Protection in practice?

For us, it hasn't worked out at all. The problem is that before you can Merge your changes back into Main (if Main is protected), the versions of main and the branch have to match exactly, or the Merge won't be allowed. This condition (where the onshape version of the branch matches the main version) exists briefly after you create the branch and Protect Main. However, if much time goes by (max 3 weeks!) now the branch and the Main may no longer share Onshape versions (because of the great update cadence).

Infuriatingly, this causes the merge to fail, and the only way to make it work was to:

merge Main into your working branch (I think you might have to unprotect to do this)s, but keep all the branch tabs geometry (merge, but don't merge any actual tabs)
then try to Merge your branch back into Main

Often this would fail, or I would make a mistake, or the merge wouldn't take, or something…so I would typically have 2 -3 merges back and forth between Main and my Branch…just to get the conditions to be just right to Merge back into the protected workspace.

Generally, it was far too much work, and we've stopped trying for now.

I really liked the minor barrier to working in Main (you could just Unprotect it to get around it) because it helped us remember to work in the correct branch. But the major hassle also meant that we could: a) Release from the Branch (which we didn't want to do) or b): turn off Protected Workspaces…thereby making the whole thing ineffective.

I've submitted feedback and (I think) a support ticket or two on this.

Basically, they need the Onshape version updates in the background to be ignored by the Protected Workspace - so that the tiny, behind-the-scenes differences don't gum up the works. I haven't tried it for several months, but also haven't noticed anything about updates or new functionality - so I don't know if this issue persists today.

romeograham

Re: Moving Part Studios to another document

Try doing this from the Tab bar in the two documents.

- Right mouse button click on the desired part studio tab in the tab bar and choose Copy to Clipboard
- Navigate to the desired Document and click the + button in the tab bar and choose Paste Tab

skottmorris