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Re: Forum Software Update
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✅ Paste Image From Clipboard
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(❌ Float left from previous image messes up down stream lines which can't be adjusted with empty space paragraphs)
❌Gif Test 2 (Does not display on mobile)
✅ YouTube link as card
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❌Plain paste https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f5daef3c0c41cd46ca8a28b6/w/2eade12d75b3867c0630e97b/e/f4ec9c110e6d3bf94eca9c32
❌Rich link Test
(Broken for Onshape documents) (Also forces text after to be on a new line when it does work)
✅Display as text https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f5daef3c0c41cd46ca8a28b6/w/2eade12d75b3867c0630e97b/e/f4ec9c110e6d3bf94eca9c32
Display as card (❌Broken for Onshape documents, so here is this forum post to see what a card looks like)
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✅Inline code format (Copy paste from Firefox)
FeatureScript 2411;
import(path : "onshape/std/common.fs", version : "2411.0");
annotation { "Feature Type Name" : "Faulty topology finder", "Feature Type Description" : "" }
export const faultyTopologyFinder = defineFeature(function(context is Context, id is Id, definition is map)
precondition
{
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✅Code block (Copy paste from Firefox)
FeatureScript 2411;
import(path : "onshape/std/common.fs", version : "2411.0"); annotation { "Feature Type Name" : "Faulty topology finder", "Feature Type Description" : "" }
export const faultyTopologyFinder = defineFeature(function(context is Context, id is Id, definition is map)
precondition
{
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✅Mobile view test: This post shows up great on the phone, gifs and everything!
(Using centered image since float left messes up downstream rows. Though it is nice to have the float left options, we need to be able to not float and place left.)
❌Mobile post test: Unable to update this post on phone, when I press space bar, it somehow brings me to the page footer and erases everything in my post.
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Re: Drawings - Subset BOM?
You could try using configurations instead of display states, but otherwise I don't think there's a way to do this automatically… Using sub-assemblies would help but it will only match the numbers of you use an indented BOM on the first sheet.
What I typically do is have the complete BOM on sheet one and just balloon items using numbers from the one table on the other sheets.
Re: Forum Software Update
The "quote" button under the posts doesn't seem to work any more, but copying and pasting seems to create a quote-like box.
I haven't found anyway to edit the raw HTML any more. On the plus side(?), the [<>] button is for embedding things. Not sure how well that will work.
@Ste_WilsonIs what I see on Firefox on android.
Well, that does look crappy.
Re: sketch grid
Best way to do this, especially with this image is to crop the image so the bottom lines up with the tip of the leg before inserting (using any basic image editing program), then you can just add dimension to the long edge of the picture and set it to the 28.0625 dimension shown.
This should give you perfect scaling with no math.
If you don't have a convenient dimension you can reference, the "image" FS provides a "reference" you can line up with your picture to set the size:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f7a45d78c374497d37c1d2cb/v/e55cc4b62eaac7ef75039ab2/e/557019cd8b843cc475681faf
Re: Forum Software Update
One challenge I'm seeing is that pasting in a URL no longer defaults to creating a link. It seems like you need to format it that way.
Dumb paste:
https://www.onshape.com/en/
Paste and then use formatting tools to create link:
Re: Forum Software Update
Testing out code formatting:
predicate canBeBridgingSideData(value) { value is map; value.degree == 0 || value.degree == 1 || value.degree == 2 || value.degree == 3; isLengthVector(value.position); if (value.degree >= 1) // G1 or higher { is3dDirection(value.tangent); value.speedScale == undefined || value.speedScale is number; } if (value.degree >= 2) // G2 { is3dDirection(value.curvatureDirection); value.curvature is ValueWithUnits; value.curvatureOffsetScale == undefined || value.curvatureOffsetScale is number; } if (value.degree >= 3) // G3 { value.normal == undefined || value.normal is Vector; value.kPrime == undefined || value.kPrime is Vector; value.twoFFPrime == undefined || value.twoFFPrime is ValueWithUnits; // Either kPrime (for curves) or twoFFPrime should be defined value.kPrime != undefined || value.twoFFPrime != undefined; value.g3OffsetScale == undefined || value.g3OffsetScale is number; } }
Nice!!!
Re: Forum Software Update
Maybe not obvious, but backtick code highlighting finally works
. :D
Re: Tie-Rip / Cable-Tie / Zip-Tie FS?
Not aware of it but that's a pretty neat idea!
We use a configurable model with config variables so we can do any rectangular and circular shape which is "close enough" but a FS that would take a path and generate the right geometry would be really cool!
That would really be pushing beyond my FS skills though so it would probably take me forever to come up with that! I'm also not sure how it would work in BOMs… Right now with the newly added "exclude properties" we can finally have all of the ties show up in one line on the BOM regardless of the shape they are in, which is nice!
Tie-Rip / Cable-Tie / Zip-Tie FS?
Has anyone ever considered making a FS for creating Tie-Rips? They're such a common thing in tech.
They all have similar shape, and only differ in width and lenght. There should be a way to create them from a cross section of what the're meant to hold, shouldn't it?