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Re: Lost work, Feature tree and File browser showing different info
Were you working in the 60deg branch? Click on it to find out.
Re: Secret 2 way Pattern Part Performance Boost.
I encourage everyone to read this:
https://www.onshape.com/en/resource-center/tech-tips/tech-tip-how-to-create-faster-patterns-in-onshape
Re: why when i right click i dose it keep rotating after i have let go
It sticks for me sometimes. RMB and rotate again and it should “release” it.
Re: Rotating view locked on with mouse
Had this issue with Opera, it's related from one of the browser's default settings. Go to setting and search for mouse gestures and turn it off, fixes the issue 😉
Re: Slide linkage by CADemist linkage pin shearing
Share your document so the brain trust can have a look.
Re: CAM Studio
Not just for .edu accounts, we hobby machinists could really use a decent CAM facility that's fully integrated with OnShape and doesn't require the bad hybrid workflow with Fusion hobbyist edition that we have to put up with now. A $2.5K subscription is a complete non-starter for home machinists. I hope OS can figure out some reasonable plan to support the hobbyist use case. XYZA, basic tool changer, and Acorn/Mach4/LinuxCNC posts would make a lot of people happy. And please not the crippling of rapids that Fusion saddles us with…we already have relatively slow moving machines.
d_cook
Re: CAM Studio
"Also AutoDesk just sent out to HSMWorks customers that they are retiring it on March 25th, 2028"
That's what I hate with subscriptions (Onshape not counting as a cloud native service where even access to old versions would mean ongoing costs for PTC - there subscription is unfortunately the only realistic option).
HSMWorks would probably perfectly well continue to work for the next 20 years if you keep a compatible machine. And in many cases it probably can do everything needed for the job. But still, it will cease to function, just because of that business model and a company wanting to enforce to buy their new stuff instead. This is just artificial, planned obsolescence without any technical need, making something non-functional that would otherwise perfectly continue to work. Which should imho be forbidden.
fst
Re: Secret 2 way Pattern Part Performance Boost.
This is because for 2nd direction, there are 15*15-1=224 Boolean adds, and for the 2 patterns there are 14+14=28 Boolean adds.
S1mon
Secret 2 way Pattern Part Performance Boost.
The secret is to not use 2nd direction for part patterning. Use 2 pattern features instead for a lot of objects. This was a 15x15 pattern. I was playing around with tile floor pattern for @jeff_mcaffer and noticed a huge performance hit when clicking on 2nd direction in part pattern function. It might be tied just to the add option of the pattern feature trying to join all the geometry. I have to try a few other things to explore and expand if necessary.
MDesign