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Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Brilliant so much to get excited about in one update. Nice work team.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Are there plans to make CAM available to Education/Classroom users? At least in a stripped down form that could do 2/2.5d operations.
Andrew_Card
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Very happy about sketching on drawings!
Re: New Video Tutorial: Power User Selection Skills for Onshape
In FeatureScript they are called that. it's qConvexConnectedFaces() and qConcaveConnectedFaces(). I'm sure it's a balance between being unambiguous about what it does, and it being too much of a mouthful, so I don't feel strongly either way personally. Once you know, you know.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Wow!
Pretty sure I'll be using all the drawing improvements. Seems a bit trivial compared to some of the other stuff but cropping the detail view outline might be my favourite.
Also sheet metal forms, we've had a functional workflow for these but this looks way nicer!
EDIT: had sort of skipped over the obsoletion as I read it to mean it only applied to the "virtual part" kind of items but that will also be really nice!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
A lot of long standing requests here, keep them coming! Drawing sketching, detail view boarder clipping, and remove permanently delete global permission for workspace deletion (change log). Building an obsoletion change is also going to save some time on occasion. Nice work!!
Re: Laser Joint Updated to V3.0: Pin Face Offset and Pin Chamfer!
I did some of these for fuel tanks a couple tears ago. Has the advantage of no bracing to assemble ready for welding and a straight tight edge for welding light weight aluminum for fuel tanks. Takes more work in the cad model but much improvement in fabrication. Adjust number of clamp holes to suit your project. Never got around to automating. Too many stiles, then the company was sold off. Held together with holes clamps. To finish, remove hole clamps and weld over holes.
Re: How do I cut out the shape?
Rather than a projected curve, try to extrude a surface and then split the original surface.
Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
CAM STUDIO (BETA)
CAM Studio is now available to all Onshape Professional and Enterprise commercial subscribers.PART STUDIOS
SHEET METAL FORM
You can now create form features, such as louvers, bridge lances, slot embosses, extrudes, and punches on existing sheet metal models. In addition, you can create your own library of custom forms, and this release ships with a set of forms to get you started in the Onshape sheet metal forms library.SKETCH CHAMFER
A new Chamfer tool in sketch enables the quick addition of chamfers between entities.DRAWINGS
PARAMETRIC SKETCHING
Lines, circles, and points added to a Drawing sheet can now be constrained and dimensioned relative to drawing view geometry.STACKED CALLOUTS
Callouts can now be stacked to detail groups of related parts or parts within close proximity of each other.DETAIL VIEW BORDER
The border of a Detail view may now be shown clipped to the view geometry for added clarity.
CUSTOM KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
All commands in Drawings can now be assigned custom keyboard shortcuts.
EXCLUDE OFF SHEET CONTENT
Off sheet content can now be excluded when exporting drawings in DWG, DXF, or DWT file formats.RELEASE MANAGEMENT
ADD ITEMS TO OBSOLETION
Multiple objects from the same document or from other documents can now be grouped and obsoleted together, reducing the number of steps required and creating an association between obsoleted items for audit purposes.
LEARNING CENTER
INTRODUCTION TO CAM STUDIO
A brand new course, Introduction to CAM Studio, is now available on the Learning Center to coincide with the release of CAM Studio. Learn how to build a machining job in CAM Studio and preview real-time tool paths, back plotting, and machine-accurate simulation.INTRODUCTION TO PARAMETRIC FEATURE-BASED CAD
The Introduction to Parametric Feature-Based CAD course has been completely reworked and updated with new content and examples to help new users get up to speed with the concepts of 3D CAD.LOCALIZATION
In our continued efforts to expand our localized offerings, full French audio has been added to the Self-Guided Onshape Bootcamp.Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments below. For a detailed list of all the changes in this update, please see the changelog.
NeilCooke
Re: Mate Connector Issues w/Spacemouse
If you go into the top view, SpaceMice somtimes lock. Use the 2D Mouse and rotate the model just a bit and the SpaceMouse will catch on again.
