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Re: #TraditionalCADsucks
I just saw the top What's New for SWX 2025, and it's funny some of the things on the list which Onshape has had for a while (multi-body filleting, color-coding of sketches). It also reminds me that instead of waiting a year for new stuff, every few Fridays we get new features which can be just as exciting.
Oh and when new stuff comes out for Onshape, there's no IT overhead to get everyone's machine updated, and you don't need to question if your partners are going to be on the latest release either.
S1mon
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Re: Building a helix on a torus...
@Caden_Armstrong
I very much appreciate the effort, but the challenge is now we have now have yet another incomplete way to find useful FeatureScripts.
- Searching/asking on the Forums
- Searching public FS in Onshape (with or without the published flag)
- https://fs.place/
- https://www.cadsharp.com/featurescripts/
- bubble.io - used to have a good list, but seems to be no longer supported/updated
- https://onshape4frc.com/cad-library
- https://www.onshape.com/en/features/custom-features#spotlight-features (finally updated to remove obsolete features!)
- Searching/asking on Discord
- Seeing things shared on social media
It's also frustrating how there isn't a great way to share a list of FeatureScripts.
S1mon
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Re: Building a helix on a torus...
@Caden_Armstrong's fs.place is the most legit one yet. But the issue remains, unless it is a button like the app store, people just can't find it. I imagine most users don't know the forum exists, and an equally large number of them don't even know that custom features are a thing.
Then the users who learn about custom features, like myself when I learned, don't understand that you can add them to your toolbar. This is why there are a million copied documents for custom features. Probably only a small percentage of those are intentional copies for fs development purposes or enterprises.
Re: Building a helix on a torus...
Thanks Matt, Got all the boxes to show what you had, but still no - just blank screen (no matches found). Maybe not for us free guys?
And Micheal, I just +1 on the vote.
Change language for drawing only
I'm working in a foreign country right now and would like to print drawings in a foreign language without editing all the fields manually. Is there a way to do this without changing my entire account to the different language?
Thanks!
Thanks!
Re: Looking for a simpler way to construct a toroidal helix.
I made these a while back. They might help.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/540024dc238c4892e65f18d4/w/2e339b4cfdf2c56505abd48c/e/d61ac75b4954f410514f1aba
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/540024dc238c4892e65f18d4/w/2e339b4cfdf2c56505abd48c/e/d61ac75b4954f410514f1aba
Re: Building a helix on a torus...
Good feedback. I just added a "Steps" parameter to the UI, which helps.
Re: Why has my green part some unwanted holes?
I was sure it would be easyMichaelPascoe said:Holes that are on the sketch face are imprinted by default, causing them to appear in your extrude. You can open your sketch and disable imprinting if you don't want to reference the face you are sketching on.
Good to know. Thank you Michael for this quick and helpful response!
co_pa587
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Re: Catia .MODEL File
@fst
That's a bit like saying wouldn't it be great if there was one computer programming language that everyone would use. Due to the way the mathematics of NURBs surfaces work, we're lucky that STEP is relatively stable and well defined. Getting all CAD programs to use compatible parametric history is pretty unlikely.
That's a bit like saying wouldn't it be great if there was one computer programming language that everyone would use. Due to the way the mathematics of NURBs surfaces work, we're lucky that STEP is relatively stable and well defined. Getting all CAD programs to use compatible parametric history is pretty unlikely.
Or another way to look at it:
S1mon
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