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@S1mon my cheat code for featurescript vibe coding has been using OpenAI's Codex linked to a github mirror of the Onshape standard library. That way it has full lexical reference for every other feature that exists in the core tools and can compare its output to what's typical. It's not perfect and requires a bit of knowing your way around featurescript in the first place to get the most out of it but it's been an excellent way for me to bash out a lot of fairly complex features in my short time on these forums.

thanks you @EvanReese ! There's so many calculators for robot stuff for FIRST competitions, I just like having them in Onshape to create usable geometry. GPT actually wrote the big function to make the point array from input variables. it's gotten way better now that gpt5 is out.

Anyone pick up the torch of making a more up to date version of Query Explorer yet? Or am I about to pick up another side quest in my pursuit of sheet metal perfection?

Hi everyone,

This is my first post here, so let me start by introducing myself. I’ve been a professional Onshape user since 2019 and have been creating FeatureScripts from the very beginning. My background is in aerospace engineering, composite material science, and robotics. In my day job, I’ve had the privilege of working on some truly exciting engineering projects, but up until now my FeatureScripts have always lived strictly inside our Onshape Enterprise environment. That said, I’ve long wanted to share some of my work with the wider community. So, during my summer holiday, I finally took the chance to build something for fun for myself, but also for all of you! I hope you’ll find it useful.

The only required input for the FeatureScript is a flat face or sketch surface, everything else is optional. On that face, it creates a Voronoi lattice, an organic-looking structure you’ll recognize from patterns in nature, biology, physics, architecture, and even consumer product design.

I’ve also implemented a random pattern generator, adapted from Philip Thomas’s Random Surface Perturbator, based on earlier work by Maximilian Schommer and Ilya Baran.

To demonstrate usage, I’ve included examples showing how the flat-face limitation can be worked around using wrap features, though I’m sure the community will find other creative ways to apply it. A version that works directly on more complex surfaces may come later.

Key Features

• User-selected or pseudo-random Voronoi points (with seed input)
• Choice between bezier-curve or polyline cells
• Option to truncate circular concave/convex edges for cleaner bezier outputs
• Cell offset control for wall thickness
• Short-edge filtering to avoid overly sharp bezier artifacts
• Option to output only 2D geometry (useful for wraps or other downstream features)
• Blind extrude with boolean and composite part options

Known Limitations / Future improvements

• Currently works only on flat faces and sketch surfaces, option for general surface would be nice
• Polyline output limited to 2D surfaces (sketch option disabled for now)
• Extrude is blind-only (future: up-to, two-sided, etc.)
• Editing logic function addition to pre-select the extrude direction upon creation would be nice.
• Truncation could be extended to non-circular curves
• Short-edge filter can misbehave if set too high
• Large offsets may break the feature (error handling would help)

See it here: Voronoi face lattice.

If you discover any bugs, have ideas for improvements, or would like to collaborate, please reach out. If you like the tool, I’d love for you to use it, share it, and even improve upon it, just please give credit and share your work under the same license (CC BY-SA).