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Re: Custom Feature: Triad Transform
My dad always told me to be the CAD you want to see in the world. I thought that was a weird thing to tell your kid but I'm not a parent myself, so what do I know?
Custom Feature: Triad Transform
-Link to feature up front-
Onshape's vanilla transform feature doesn't give you those nice buttery smooth rotation handles to play with like the assembly tabs do, which is a shame because some of the most aesthetically pleasing structures aren't confined to the bounds of XYZ coordinates. I mean look at these crystal clusters moving around the screen as freeform as can be.
Wait was that a feature dialog window?
It sure was.
I've been working on some projects recently that necessarily need to be freed from the confines of coordinate grids and as much as I love the standard rotation transform and mate connector to mate connector transform they weren't letting the creative juices flow. So I made Triad Transform to bring that sweet full triad manipulator to the part studio environment. Use this tool to make your D&D minis look more organic and lively. Use this tool when your boss wants you to nudge that part over that way and rotate it 45 degrees just for looksies real quick, and he doesn't understand the difference between part studios and assemblies. Use this tool on your coworker's parts and hide it in their feature tree so that all of their drawing views are 0.5° out of alignment and watch them tear their hair out trying to figure out why their dimensional callouts aren't working. The possibilities are endless.
Re: How can I delete a drawing template
shanshan
Re: opBoolean() with BooleanOperationType.INTERSECTION fails with @opBoolean: BOOLEAN_BAD_INPUT
just FYI: I just took the effort to publish the basic boolean feature
Re: Custom Feature: Query Variable+
@Konst_Sh Those could be really useful. I also realized that I might be able to get some use out of a generally tolerant equal to size query since I've already got the conditions built for larger than / equal and smaller than / equal. Different from qMatching if I'm looking for things that differ in geometry.
@jelte_steur_info I implemented a modified version of tolerant parallel that doesn't assume a qEverything because there are cases where I'd like to filter for parallelish items on a specific subset of queries. To make it up to you I also implemented qEverything so you can still get the job done with two QV+s in a trenchcoat. Actually I needed some qEverything for other use-cases anyway so we can knock that one off the list.
