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Re: Extrusion of 1" shows .7" on drawing
Isometric dimensioning is not currently supported
Re: Increase in general bugginess
Already did, and @lauren_little has been a blast to work with. 10/10 support and service.
CAM Studio
Help! I am a high school teacher using Onshape with my engineering classes. We have been using Onshape with students for about 7 years now and love it. We use it to talk to all of our rapid prototyping equipment such as laser cutters and 3d printers.
Where Onshape falls short is the lack of CAM software. Currently our workflow is clunky. It starts in Onshape, we export a PDF to a program called Vcarve (windows) and then we can create toolpaths and send it to cut on our ShopBot CNC router. With all of our students now using Chromebooks I hate having to get another device out that has Vcarve, learn that device/software, to then finally get to the router. I would love to be able to create the CAD model in Onshape and then use Onshape to create the toolpaths and send cut files to my CNC router.
I found out that Onshape has "CAM studio" built in but it is only for professional account users or commercial enterprise account users. Id love to try this CAM studio out before committing the $2,500 for the professional account.
Does anyone have any experience they can share with me regarding CAM Studio in Onshape? OR even better, Is anyone willing to let me try it out with them? I tried gaining access to CAM studio through the Onshape Discovery program where you get 6 months professional access for free but that version does not have CAM studio built in.
Thank you for your consideration
Re: CAM Studio
Yes the two I would love would be CAM and the Render studio (great for slide making!) I have yet to use any CAD package as good for teaching as OnShape as it is powerful but not the kitchen sink overwhelming like say Fusion360 ("Help, I am stuck in the circuit design module!") but having to export your parts to Fusion to machine them is clunky and you lose some of the magic of integrated CAM (like it knows what a hole is and the settings in the hole-tool to intelligently create the strategy for machining it especially on the smaller mills we might use, where unlike Titan you can't do rigid tapping and need to thread mill). Even if limited to some usage/month (although unlike renders CAM is often an iterative process which may be why Fusion uses a cloud-credit system giving more flexibility in usage budgeting)
Render Studio (even if limited to X renders/month) would be amazing for class slide decks when we are talking about the finished part (sure I can actually make the part, but kind of un-environmental and if I am traveling for some reason the airlines won't bring my milling machine on the plane?). Currently I export the same STEP to Fusion360 to render instead as while the CAD is more fiddly, the render studio is really nice as the professor.
Re: proposal for CAM Studio in free version of Onshape
Hopefully CAM Standard will feature in the new free educator plan to get more young engineers using CAD/CAM. Doesn’t help hobbyists I know but I think everyone appreciates that this will use plenty of cloud compute power that someone has to pay for.patrick_shea said:We use ONSHAPE for our Makerspace, and are working on convincing our local Secondary Schools to swing over to ONSHAPE, showing the wonders of Solid Modelling. A simplified version of CAN STUDIO that would limit 2 1/2 or 3 axis would be ideal to help integrate people into the the world of manufacturing. We are loosing ground in North America to offshore manufacturing. Give us hand here!! .
I think the educator plan was a incredible move for STEM education
Fusion can do it free because they use local compute power for CAM but Fusion 360 requires many my of the things that onshape doesn’t like local installs reasonably powerful specific hardware etc.
Not sure of the solution but IIRC the original cloudmilling solution that was acquired had a pay per use model. If that is viable to implement it could offer a sustainable option for both.
alan_89
Re: How to use the API to execute a FeatureScript to create a custom feature?
@he_qiu143 , You got the support code, because the body of the add Part studio feature endpoint expects feature:{} , while in the example you posted you has features:[] .
Re: Best fit plane
I suppose it might be a good reason to start learning feature script and possibly a good project to start with after the I get the basics down. Thanks for the feedback. most appreciated and good luck with your other FS. I might have to add that since I do a little 3D printing. Nice one.
MDesign