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Automatic Assembly Sequence Generation
Hi everyone, I'm from C-Infinity where we're building AutoAssembler — AI that can automatically generate assembly sequences from your CAD assemblies. You can use AutoAssembler for free here. If you login with your Onshape id you'll see your assemblies inside AutoAssembler. AutoAssembler will help you speed up design checks, process planning, and generating work instructions. You can create multiple assembly scenarios and share your plans with your colleagues. We'd love it if you try AutoAssembler and give us your feedback! If there's enough interest from the community we'd be happy to build an Onshape app extension so you can do assembly planning in a tab within Onshape. Let us know!
Thanks!
Sai
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Horizontal scroll bars, sheet metal cone, and width mate will get used right away.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Sorry @mlaflecheCAD in production we never have that kind of holes in a bended part, I know this is off topic but please use a better example.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
I saw it above, but yeah the same problem that the BOM scrollbar had previously still exists for the configuration lists. I encounter a lot of long configuration lists when working on a part library and I hope the fix gets implemented there soon as well.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Sheet Metal Cone is great! Thank you!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Might just be me, but a little deflated about this update.
Nice to get sheet metal for cone but quite limited to concentric reducers, need sheet metal loft for offset reducers and square to round etc
Support ticket open for 3 years and 2 years since the sneak peek
Re: Is Onshape right for me - Steel fabricator designing with flexible dimensions like length
I would also suggest looking at the "frames" tools for what you describe.
Here's a good example of a parametric design, in this case it's lumber but the process would be identical with steel profiles:
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Have wanted sheet metal conical features for years.. thank you!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 6th, 2025
Excellent point @dirk_van_der_vaart ! here is how I would do that as if it were a true sheet metal part, with the hole stamped normal to the face https://www.veed.io/view/4e500722-a69d-4649-8421-241086045978?panel=share : This uses mate connector belonging to the bracket as an axis to mate the pin to, then the width mate is applied. There are other ways of adding width mates too which I will write some info up on for a coming tech tip.
I created a branch in the document I shared earlier. I added configurable angle to test a range of possibilities as well…https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f333c7dbc8816de5feab30cb/w/6bb72f8bd203adb0d2e6e368/e/d33cbebc8fab347ed742c337?configuration=Wall_Angle%3D0.3490658503988659%2Bradian&renderMode=0&uiState=6844b0d3977cfd4711e52ea4
