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Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 19th, 2024
I'm feeling like formed features in sheet metal are going to be a thing soon!
Re: Join Onshape's Exclusive Berlin Product Design Night: September 5th, 2024
No, they are in-person events only.
Re: Profile Generator (Airfoil) CustomFeature airfoil database has error for some common airfoil shapes.
Check this thread, this might help:jotham_barmentloo said:Hi @GregBrown, I'm much in the same boat as John here with the curvature generated by this plug-in being a bit weird and wanting to use foils not in the database.It is great to hear you're working on this! Just checking in it's been a few months - did it release anywhere at any point? Where could I find out more?Eagerly awaiting any news. : )Thanks
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/24730/new-custom-feature-havf-profiles-standard-airfoil-profiles#latest
Re: Change language for drawing only
I know the situation he's in, from my own experience. I'm german, but a relevant part of my work is for english speaking (or international) customers. So I use the english UI language setting to make everything easier on all parties. Now here comes a traditional german client and he doesn't want any english on his drawings, for the people working on his shop floor are Otto Normalverbraucher (german for average joes) just like him, who can't understand "Thru Hole" and such. I made german localized templates for this case. I changed the Watermarks. I set my display language to german befor starting work. But then I create a hole annotation and it says:
A part is still not "ein Teil", an assembly is not a "Zusammenbau", a drawing is still not "eine Zeichnung" and so on. So nothing gained here, and I have to make all these changes manually each time and one by one. maybe I should just keep using the english UI. Sometimes I wish I could kind of select "Client Prefs" each time I'm creating a new project. That would then include drawing formats and language as well as logos and other things and these would be called whenever the project is worked at. (I won't use inches, no matter what settings, though.)
Im my opinion, it makes no sense to have all preferences on a per user level. A per project strategy appears much more logical to me.
Re: Google Sheets Cell values for Variable
I'm by no means an expert, but I got a little test working. I started here:
https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/python
I followed that exactly. Once I had my Python code reading my Google Sheet, then I just updated a Variable Studio using Python requests to the Onshape API.
By the way, after I was done, I also found this:
https://github.com/PTC-Education/PTC-API-Playground/blob/main/Configuration_Variables_and_Google_Sheets.ipynb
https://developers.google.com/sheets/api/quickstart/python
I followed that exactly. Once I had my Python code reading my Google Sheet, then I just updated a Variable Studio using Python requests to the Onshape API.
By the way, after I was done, I also found this:
https://github.com/PTC-Education/PTC-API-Playground/blob/main/Configuration_Variables_and_Google_Sheets.ipynb
Re: How to Model "Diamond Plate" Pattern
I realize this is an old post, but might be helpful for anyone else who runs across this.
I found this texture custom feature which does this easily: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/16576/texture-new-custom-feature
I found this texture custom feature which does this easily: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/16576/texture-new-custom-feature