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Re: face of extrusion won't take fillet
Something's off in this area. If you cut it away it works. The edge on the left looks especially sketchy to me the way it kinda disappears.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025
I've got the same issue as @alex_pitt
Dxf export default to meters is a huge pain. I output flats for laser cutting all day, and this feature has been running interference very effectively.
Please make it default to the drawing units.
Everything else seems great, keep up the great work!
Re: How to 'bend' an extrusion around a curve
I would love for Onshape to add tools to taper, flex, and otherwise distort geometry like this.
Re: Set Property (New Custom Feature!) 🆕
@MichaelPascoe You are right, No parts were selected ( I was so focused on new stuff, that I overlooked this basic condition). Now it is working fine. Thank you.
Re: Perf patterns in sheet metal?
Currently sheet metal is not suited for handling perforated designs - regeneration performance and memory use are not optimized for it. Two possible sane approaches would be formed feature or sketch in flat. I'm assuming that you want to have the perforation reflected in flat, so you need to have a representation for flat pattern which can be exported with DXF. It seems to me that building the desired piece as a formed tool is the simplest way to to achieve this. You can use Evan's Grid Extrude to build the tool and then use its face to generate the sketch of the form.
lana
Forum suggestion - Moderated post visibility for poster
It would be nice if a user could somehow see a list of any of their posts/comments that are being held for moderation (for whatever reason).
Currently, if I go and look at my own Profile, I see a "Moderation" menu option that shows me some stats, but nothing about any posts or comments that are currently held for moderation.
It would be nice to either see a list of held posts/comments here, or have them listed under the respective Post/Comment options with appropriate tags next to them to denote they are awaiting moderation.
Of course, viewing this in the users profile would be limited to the account owner (and probably admins). It could be nice too to see why they've been held for moderation (eg: new user, banned word match, suspicious activity, etc), but not absolutely necessary.
This could help stop the occasional double post, or at least allow someone to check before they post a second reply to something they have already replied to a few hours earlier.
Added bonus would be the option to "withdraw" the post before it is moderated (eg: allowing the poster to withdraw a double post for example).
Re: where can I find the setting of quantity holes?
"[…] counting automatically would add unlogical numbers there…"
Displaying count for repetitive features is well documented in ASME Y14.5 and widely used.
It's more confusing if the count is not displayed, or worse, if the edit is done manually—-current workaround—and then goes out of sync with model changes.
How come this is not yet available?
ody
Re: support controlling ratios of sketch dimensions/measures
yes, i absolutely have done that equality of 3 segments things. very limited though and that itself can't be parametrized on existing variables or configurations. :]
another workaround that can at least be parametrized is this similar-triangles approach where i can sketch a right triangle with the sides having the ratio i want (7/9) and then make similar triangles (parallel hypotenuse) that can then scale freely in terms of value but their sides retain the desired ratio.
this still only works for ratios rather than the full features of equations.
anyways, i think the request has been made more clear, thanks. i imagine there are various forms this could be implemented in, not necessarily exactly how pro/e was doing it 20 years ago. :]