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Re: Parts list for dimensional wood projects?
@sloan_thrasher
Make sure you have the material option selected. If your material changes, remember to press the refresh button within the feature.
Also, I've pushed an update to allow for multi table support. I think this would be a valuable addition to the feature 😎
Re: Honeycomb pattern on a curved surface (Grid Extrude impossible).
I wrote Grid Extrude and let the record reflect that I agree with @_anton here and that a slicer-side solution feels better to me and I do not condone making this many holes for performance reasons… but here's a way to do it lol. Your regeneration time is now over 100 seconds. Godspeed.
Re: Lofting
I'm no maestro, but here are a few thoughts:
- Your modeling is chaotic, and hard to work through with all of the transforms. I don't see why they're necessary for this piece, I think I could easily model this in place, so that the part history is more easy to work through.
- Loft can be tricky, I've modeled for a year+ (dozens of projects), and I still am careful to depend on it. If I think I'll need it, I often work out parts of my piece prior, so that I know I'll be able to reliably use it when I get to where I need it.
- If you're ok with a generally fancied up end, and don't require anything specific, rotating the end profile of the curved bit might be ok for you.
I did the last process here, though I actually did it after failing to loft, so I wasted a ton of steps. As-is, you could just make a sketch on the end of the curved bit, use "use/project/convert (u)" to grab the profile, and then rotate it by 90 degrees using the lower edge of the piece as the axis.
My doc: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/efa989742325d286ffa4022e/w/a31cabd71ec16b23a372e1ef/e/23b6344d641935f0ccf6b9f8
l_p669
Re: Assembly Planes - Where are they?
Ultimately at the least the Section creation dialog should have an option to run thru the origin aligned with XYZ with angle control.
This is the type of stuff that has our more advanced users not consider Onshape as a serious engineering tool
Re: Assembly Planes - Where are they?
Re: Improvements to Onshape - May 16th, 2025
The updated "Replace Face" feature is a nice update!
albjerre
Re: Improvements to Onshape - May 16th, 2025
Neil, Cody and Roy do an excellent job showing off the new capabilities. That said, they only have a hot-minute to explain/show what the new capabilities can do. This is NOT a marketing video, this is simply testing out the code before it was released, but it gives you a sense of the much richer visual experience possible. There is more work to be done yet, but even now, you can use section along with the new transparent graphics, measure in section and remember, just like Neil said, 'Select Other' is your friend. The graphics teams killed it with this project.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - May 16th, 2025
Great release. I really like seeing some focus on publications.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - May 16th, 2025
Yes, these are still some very nice to have improvements on top of the stability stuff.
S1mon