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Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
Very nice update
Love all the new thread improvments
Re: New Formtool - Sheetmetal Thickness
@Axel_Kollmenter:
i believe this is the way to go: the #thickness parameter is required so the material formtool can be used on multiple sheet_material_thicknesses.
But diameter isn't dependent on material thickness and can be chosen a set dimension or a seperate configuration parameter.
don't forget to close the sketch inner so you can revolve a new body 'to remove'. this will be used to cut material from the sheet metal part.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
@S1mon There is not a keyboard shortcut just yet, but stay tuned…
aholmes
Re: help turning imported STL surface mesh into solid part
I couldn't get the original surface to mesh and had to split it. Bit tricky to thicken as well. Had to add a fillet to beak sharp edge along keel. The new constrained surface 🤗 sure helped. I have to agree with Martin on the quality of original STL surface.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
The fun thing about cosmetic thread is that its just set on a cylindrical face with a property, so it can be used in custom features.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
@GregBrown @EvanReese Thank you. Constrained Surface is the bees knees, the cat's meow, and all that and a bag of chips. Did not expect to see that quite this quickly. That is a huge time saver and nearly exactly what I had hoped for from such a feature. One additional tweak would put it over the top. and That is extend the capability to create a perfectly flat surface via a calculated median of point deviations. Just a simple check box or a 3rd tab would suffice.
This tool is going to be crazy useful to many users and save sooooo much time of creating planes, sketches, curves and trial and error. WELL DONE! Move boundary with offset is a nice complimentary tool as well.
Oh good job on the other stuff too. ha
You can consider this IR complete.
MDesign
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
Also worth noting, it is not in fact using a decal to do this. But it is being done directly in the shader…
Re: Calculate angles between mate connector and global coordinate system
@SimScale_Support: Sounds like some simple featurescript could do this for you…
is it still relevant?
actually featurescript can output the whole transform very easily for you.:
try this:
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
Yes - we believe we've resolved the selection issues on the Snapdragon X Elite GPUs. Please let us know if you find the issue is not resolved.
Evan
Re: Improvements to Onshape - March 13th, 2025
Excellent as always Onshape - constrained surface let's us make another third party piece of expensive software redundant! Great job.
