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Re: How do I resolve this ?

@danushant_krishnaruban

You only need half the sketch to do a full revolve.

wayne_sauder

Re: cad.new no longer working

Looks like this has been fixed. I think I noticed it was working a few weeks ago. Good turnaround, thanks team!

aidan_fraser

Re: Sheet metal performance best practices

Interesting. For some reason I was self-insisting that I keep those flat patterns valid. Ironically though sendcutsend lately has been vomiting on STEP and I've had to use flat patterns with them.

billyzelsnack

Re: Sheet metal performance best practices

After onshape added "Insert entire Part Studio as rigid" and "Add mate connector to instance origin" I have been moving away from derived parts. The other day I realized I was back in assembly camp after so many years and posted this to my X.

The realization really hurt, but it was true for me and closed an era for me.

I also think onshape are themselves pushing back into this direction considering the recent restrictions and warnings they've put on derived.
I don't want to go back to the old fashioned single part files but finding the balance is very difficult.

billyzelsnack

Re: Sheet metal performance best practices

I have to scope the holes so they don't interfere with other parts. The holes are all either single scope on the sheet metal or two flanges.

billyzelsnack

Re: How to name sketches created in featurescripts?

Cannot be done. Please create an improvement request.

NeilCooke

Re: How can I query the faces that highlight when I pick a feature?

Thanks once again, Caden! I've not given it a test yet, but wouldn't this only get the most recent one? I'm trying to have a FeatureList param and query the faces for those features. I was hoping to have a "Features" mode in my recently released Thread Decal feature.

EvanReese

How to name sketches created in featurescripts?

The following code does not work as intended. When running this feature script it will produce a sketch named "Sketch 1" in the feature tree. How can I change the name to "Name of my sketch"?

var sketch1 = newSketch(context, id + "sketch1", {

"sketchPlane" : qCreatedBy(makeId("Top"), EntityType.FACE)

});

skLineSegment(sketch1, "line1", {

"start" : vector(0, 0) * inch,

"end" : vector(1, 0) * inch

});

skSolve(sketch1);

setProperty(context, {

"entities" : qCreatedBy(id + "sketch1", EntityType.BODY),

"propertyType" : PropertyType.NAME,

"value" : "Name of my sketch"

});

Fernando_Suarez

Re: How to name sketches created in featurescripts?

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/24261/how-to-name-sketches-created-in-featurescripts

same issue.

Goldorak_56

Re: Order of split body parts

The box method can work, but I have a hunch there's something better. Here are some untested ideas:

Since you're splitting with planes perhaps you can add a qCoincidesWithPlane() or qInFrontOfPlane() to your loop, then append that query to an array as you go.

qSplitBy() should return both of the new split parts. You might need to use qIntersection() with the method above to return only the one body you're after.

Failing that, you might look into evRaycast(), which I think returns things in order.

EvanReese