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Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
I did sometimes finding myself making a one-off custom feature specifically to make one tricky selection never to be used again.
Re: Modelling Seashells
A couple of ideas in here…
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/17eb0b0ffd5db5b9ff738769/w/96151fe4f794283691d1b82e/e/3f2e4286a702a4d34277c5b7
Re: New Custom Feature: EZ Wire
@martin_kopplow finally added start and end parameters for FOLLOW Curve mode.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
@S1mon like this. There's a flood fill option for qTangentConnectedFaces() that has a tolerance bounds that I'm exposing to the user here. Lets me select one of these wonky edge faces and grab the whole chain without grabbing the bits I don't want. You can also see the start of some of my mesh reverse engineering scripts in some of those other tabs. I have an open improvement request to be able to expose mesh triangles to featurescript precisely because I want to do this sort of power selection of faces into groups and replace them with parametric faces like true cylinders or planes. Can't do that with just vertices.
Re: List of Math Operations
Had a quick look at the Feature Script documentation but not sure which part is relevant.
Found the following but can't see a square function anywhere.
https://www.onshape.com/en/resource-center/tech-tips/tech-tip-using-numeric-fields
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
This markdown syntax seems to work so far. I can link to spreadsheets!!!!
https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
PCB Studio is heading in the right direction. If a full MECAD solution is realized, Onshape really will become an industry staple in no time.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
Already getting my mileage out of the new query variable functionality and adding some new functions to it to help clean up some of the topological messes people send my way. I'll probably find some way to shove frame and sheet metal properties in here as things to query by at some point too.
