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Re: CAM Studio
I see that CAM Studio (Beta) has recently been released to Professional and Enterprise accounts.
Will schools or FIRST Robotics teams qualify for CAM Studio?
Currently, we export a STP file from Onshape and then import to an Autodesk product (Inventor or Fusion - students choice) to create the Gcode for our router. If the Onshape model changes, the process starts over.
I imagine using CAM Studio will offer a better integration between design and manufacturing.
I look forward to using CAM Studio some day.
Thank you for your time and attention. I look forward to the replies.
Regards,
Jerry
Re: Copy with transform command
Re: Is there something similar to shift + drag to copy? In the Assembly Studio?
Pity. Ctrl V still is just so ballpark that you wind up positioning parts manually anyway, even when copying from what's in the Assembly already.
It would be nice if you could drag and move, with other geometry and even mates acting as constrains, and shift-drag to copy would be icing on the cake.
The parts studio works pretty nice, with constraints and all when creating and positioning geometry. I hope some of it makes its way into Assembly.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Wow wow, this must be the best release ever. Very good , thank you !
Finally after years of waiting, the simple fillet in sketches is here 🙂
I will start using parametric sketching immediately, maybe even update drawing templates.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Can't wait for the student access to CAM!
Re: Issue with variables not being available in sketches
You can initiate a variable during the sketch/feature. When the value dialog opens during dimensioning enter # instead of a number and a list will show up. Select new variable and the variable dialog opens. When that is complete the variable will show up in feature tree ahead of sketch/feature. As Eric says, move up the tree to make available in previous features/sketches.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
EDU will be addressed with CAM later after some time with commercial customers.
lougallo
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Parametric sketching in drawings +
Formed features in sheet metal ++
CAM studio released +++
Excellent update. Thank you Onshape Team!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Please keep putting resources into CAM. Thanks!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
This is one of the most significant releases in a long time. CAM Studio opens up a lot of possibilities and makes Onshape much more competitive against some other CAD tools, although the pricing is quite a bit different. I agree with @Andrew_Card that 2/2.5d CAM for education or standard users would be a huge plus.
I'm looking forward to hacking the form tools to add features for flex PCB details like stiffeners, edge connections and pseudo silkscreens for pin 1. I haven't tried it yet, but since there's a separate add/delete part, it seems pretty powerful.
Parametric sketching in drawings has been a long time coming. Glad that's finally here.
I've never really understood the big deal about sketch chamfers, but it seems well implemented.
S1mon