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Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Carvera and (in my case) Carvera Air support would be great indeed! Assuming CAM Studio will get viable for owners of CNC machines in that price range (Carvera Air is now $2100, thus one would get more than one new machine for the yearly subscription of CAM Studio with basic 3D paths. So I fear Carvera owners are not the target group of Onshape as of today, it is more priced for owners of >$100k machines who already have a Pro CAM anyways).
Edit: That calculation assumes the TCO of a CNC machine over realistically 10-20 years. Thus CAM Studio basic would cost 29570-59500€ (incl taxes) in that scenario for one seat. So 30%-60% of a 100k€ machine, which would be fitting (except that owners of a 100k€ machine need more than CAM Studio basic - and would get an all bells and whistles perpetual license of a Pro CAM with occasional maintenance upgrades as needed for that money. So I simply don't understand the pricing politics of Onshape. But I think my point of view came across, let's just wait, hope and see how things develop.)
fst
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Great improovments. What about CAM for educational users??
Re: Issue with variables not being available in sketches
@jean_marc_billaud - What I do is create a folder at the top of the feature tree, that I named "variables". This is where I keep all variables, and they will always be available in any sketch. I started doing this before OnShape introduced the variable tables, and it just became a habit - right or wrong, it works for me. Just thought I would share.
Also makes it very easy to show/hide the variable list.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
I have a sudden urge to buy a CNC machine now… Anyone know what the Formlabs equivalent is in the CNC world?
ctayles
Feature Request - Slider Mates: Select Limits Based on Faces or Connector Mates
Thanks!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Very big update!
I've been waiting for these for a long time, can't wait to try them out!
CAM Studio, Drawings sketcher with constraints, stacked callouts in Drawings
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Love the improvment to sheet metal form tools. I'm imaginging all sorts of ways of using this to standardize certain sheet metal profiles. Finally dimensioning created geometry in drawings is also huge. I've been waiting for this for so long I actually forgot I wanted it! It was the main thing in my experience that made coming from SolidWorks drawings to Onshape drawings a bit of a drag.
Hiding the Drag Coordinate Axes Arrows in Assembly View
The giant arrows pop up whenever I select/highlight a face. Is there anyway to hide them?
b_s786
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
Whoop Whoop!
Probably one of you best Onshape Updates, I know CAM is stealing the limelight but all the other improvements here are really big hitters for us.
Keep listening and keep improving you are continuing to create a fantastic product.
Well done Onshape
Re: Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2025
I haven't got access to any of the CAM stuff or the docs … can someone clarify if custom gcode is supported so I can add my Carvera if they don't have support for it already?
hagus