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Re: etching
You can change the colour of lines/curves in the drawing views. I do that for laser cutting/bending, for example. My laser software can then mark bend lines on sheets or cut different colurs in a sequence (like holes first).
Right-click on the view to get the menu. Here come the steps:
This will carry through to PDF, DXF/DWG and SVG exports. Note there will also be layers.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - October 10, 2025
This all continues to be great… but when will the Render come to the Education version. If you add that into the Edu version then Voila, most likely Onshape will become the most popular CAD software in schools and colleges. Everyone always asks about Onshape but when told they cannot render they look elsewhere.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - October 10, 2025
CAM Studio is not implicitly available for all Educator plans, but now can be enabled for eligible Educator plans. We should have more in the coming weeks about it.
CAM Studio - Non-standard Machine
Hi All,
I am keen to implement CAM studio into our manufacturing process. We have an ART Flatbead CNC router used for 2-Axis Profile Cutting and Drilling.
I can program what we need into CAM Studio, but I need to export to a simple .cnc format with g-code.
Do I need to use a specific machine, or is there another way? I have tried a couple machines and they have exported with .ncl and .nc formats.
Any tutorials about this yet? Is it possible to use a Non-standard Machine?
Re: Render Battle #7 - Halloween 2025 🎃 (Open Division: any render platform! 📸)
Winner should get this……..Or do we have to wait for an official Onshape desgin contest for a shot at the title????? Its been a while…….
Re: Offset problem inwards a multi point sketch.
Also, as a general rule, offsetting surfaces is more robust than offsetting sketch entities. So if you already have a surface you are more likely to be able to offset that instead of the sketch.
Also, it seems like you should be able to use a "thin extrude" from the sketch or a "thicken" of the surface
Re: New login fields with password managers require double login
I think the actual problem is not this change, which indeed mimics the path most choose to tackle this particular problem, but the way it exacerbates the long running issue of session persistence. Up until now I pretty much had to login in again any time I close a tab or walk away for 5 minutes, which was a slight nuisance with a password manager. Now it's getting pretty tedious. I would propose adapting industry standard ways of persisting sessions, e.g. issuing refresh tokens and keeping them for a couple of days, give or take.