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Re: Have dev'd a SVG to Sketch Custom Feature
I tried 2 .svg files and both worked. Excellent work!
Re: Custom Feature: Loft Fillet
This feature makes me so happy. Being able to dial in things like this within a single feature is amazing. Looking forward to a boundary surface option, but otherwise this is incredibly useful.
S1mon
Re: What is with this new constant zoom out feature?
This was it! Thanks a lot man saved me from so much headaches.
Re: Bend/Slope Help
Hello Thayne. Perhaps a simpler approach would be to create a sketch of straight lines that represent the flat areas of the tray, use the Extrude Thin tool to create 3 flat areas and see if what you then have enables you to continue from there to complete the part. Example document. - Scotty (GTI owner)
Re: What is with this new constant zoom out feature?
I once ha a badly calibrated space mouse doing similar things, only it kept zooming in. Some file where the calibration values were stored probably went currupt. Re-calibrating the device from the settings solved the issue.
Re: Have dev'd a SVG to Sketch Custom Feature
@bryan_lagrange Check out the new version. Should work now. You can see the test ones I pulled work now.
Designing on Onshape Mobile – Our Experience + Air Engine Tutorial Series
Hey Onshape community 👋
My partner Ridvan Polat and I recently tried something a little different: we designed an entire air engine, from sketches to assembly and technical drawings using only the tablet version of Onshape. And we have to say: it was way smoother than we expected.
We love working with traditional CAD tools, but using a tablet brought some surprisingly nice advantages:
- Instead of a right-click, you just tap with two fingers, it feels natural and keeps you in sketch mode without messing around with menus.
- When sketching, the Position Selector feature was a game changer: you drag with the pen and snap exactly where you want (origin, align with other geometry, etc.). No fiddling with coordinates or guesswork.
- Zooming, panning, rotating, all super intuitive with touch gestures: pinch to zoom, two-finger drag to pan, swipe to rotate. Feels more like sculpting than CAD in some ways.
- To avoid accidentally rotating your part while moving around, View Lock comes in clutch. Especially useful when you are zooming in tight areas or working on fine details.
- And selecting multiple sketch entities? You don’t need a keyboard’s Ctrl. Just tap multiple items with the pen (or double-tap empty space to cancel) — simple and fast.
- The selection box as you drag with two fingers in hold-mode behaves kind of how you’d expect on desktop CAD. Drawing blue or yellow selection boxes is straightforward.
We decided to document everything, including how we set up sketches, how the mobile gestures work in different phases (sketch, extrude, assembly), and how it impacts our design flow.
👉 If you’re curious ⛄️, especially if you sometimes find yourself away from a desktop but still want to work — check out the full write-up here:
https://blog.championxperience.com/why-i-like-designing-the-air-engine-on-onshape-mobile/
We’d love to hear your thoughts. Do you prefer tablet design? Have you tried Onshape mobile for complex parts? What worked (or didn’t) for you?
Looking forward to reading your experiences 😊
Re: Release Configuration Option Inside of Assemblies
We deal with the exact same thing. I just know I can never use the released items if they are configured. We use layers upon layers of configurations for our products (configured parts, making configured sub-sub assemblies, making configured sub-assemblies, making configured assemblies!)Michael_Coffee said:The moment we try to use assembly configurations with release management, the entire structure falls apart.
Re: Onshape wants to look for and connect to any device on your local network
This was something that affected some of our extensions with Chrome v142. There's some more in depth information here: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/local-network-access.
