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Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
My guess is that the cosmetic thread might only show on thread created with the updated version of the features (i.e. try creating a new tapped hole or external thread feature in your doc and see if it shows up on there…)
Re: Features essential for aerospace structures are missing
As you probably know, Onshape is based on the same kernel, Parasolid, as NX. In theory, anything that can be modeled in NX can be modeled in Onshape. Of course NX has decades more development and has many niche tools that Onshape doesn't. It also costs a lot more and takes an IT department to manage it. There are several aerospace companies using Onshape at the moment.
In a perfect world, I wish Onshape had more sophistication in some areas, but after 30 years of using Creo and Solidworks I refuse to use them again because Onshape solves certain pain points so much better:
- Never loosing work
- Getting new functionality every 3 weeks that other companies charge an arm and a leg for
- Having those updates be almost pain free and automatic
- Not having to worry about managing a PDM server
- Being able to add custom features, and write them
- The way that Onshape manages history, versions, branching, merging, reference updating
- The stability and uptime of Onshape on AWS
- Much more explicit control over how my top down design references work
S1mon
Re: Features essential for aerospace structures are missing
I wasn't able to completely understand what you're trying to build (and how), but I was able to draft up a conical isogrid pattern in a few minutes.
apparently, there's custom feature called isogrid… (custom features of onshape are awesome and often fill in the few gaps that i felt were there from NX)
I've used NX for 11 years as well, but would hate to go back now, for reasons @S1mon detailed.
sometimes you just have to find the right way to get things done…
would not be able to do this with NX. wouldn't have the custom feature, and couldn't have as easily shared my file with you…
(what version of nx are you on etc.)
Re: ARM64 Support - Snapdragon X Elite
With Onshape release 195 we believe we've resolved the selection issues on the Snapdragon X Elite GPUs. We were getting garbage data back from the tiny pick buffer we use to support selection. We've applied a work-around and have seen the issue improve. Please let us know if you find the issue is not resolved.
Evan
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
Collapse & expand folders in feature tree - finally, I can find those pesky parts (in large assemblies) that need to be updated. This is huge, thank you onshape. And the routing curve will also be very useful. Overall, one of the better all around improvements to date.
Re: New Formtool - Sheetmetal Thickness
Only the ones you want to update with the thickness!
the part studio MUST have a variable called "thickness" to be recognized as valid but I don't think you even need to use it for anything (for example a forming tool used to engrave something at a fixed depth shouldn't need the thickness variable for anything…
Re: Why does OS insist referenced PS within the doc move with the assy when moving assy to another doc?
I find the "Move to document…" behavior to be a bit over-zealous. This is also true when moving a part studio with derived features.
Likely what you need to do first is covert all your instances in the assembly to version references rather than live workspace references. Ideally this would be a checkbox in the "Move to document…" dialogue.
S1mon
Re: Dimensioning a length of a Curved Object
... or use the recently introduced split edge FS, which will also create the dimensionable point on the edge but leave the face in one piece.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
I tried applying the cosmetic thread to some custom bolt models and couldn't help but notice that it seemed a little off. Decided to count the threads and it seems like the cosmetic thread is not really accurate? (Is it supposed to be?)
This is a 1/4" long #10-32 bolt, which should have 8 threads, but I'm counting at least 22.
Re: does a CNC "compiler" DXF to g care if different parts are in different pages of the same drawing?
For the sake of avoiding confusion and not to create unnecessaray references between documents, I'd use one drawing tab per part, except for assemblies or mounting instructions. You can always make a publication out of several part and assembly drawings to create a comprehensive collection.
Even though drawing views can be moved to other drawings, I am not sure if it is possible to break up an existing multi-part drawing and at the same time also remove all the references created before.