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Re: Create surface from perpendicular sketches? (making 3D printed mask)

@MichaelPascoe How much… you need? Pleasure to do business with you 🤣
You've made so many great features for free, you've never had any real funding?

pytho_ergo

Re: New Custom Feature: Animate

I was thinking, it would be really neat if the animate feature had an option to create a closed loop, like this.
This timeline was made using the animate feature, then wrapping the timeline to a cylinder. Took a few work arounds. But I'm sure you could do it in many less features, this was just a proof of concept:

I borrowed the original model from @yip_cm
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/99370308e8a0832e33ea429f/w/6642ae255bceb8bd5accfbc8/e/e30bbb48bf7b931…

Onshape Infinity Stairs Animated Loop.gif

MichaelPascoe

Re: Escher Stairs - how to keep the ball rolling down the stairs continuously?

Yes, you can do this by using a cylindrical mate with cylindrical timeline guides. Note that the tangent mate parts will need to be copied and have an additional slider mate on each of them to allow the "needle" to fit to the timeline. Without this modification, the mates will break.

Note that my modifications to the part studio are level 1, so very rough and proof of concept only. You could probably do this in only a few features once you figure out what is needed.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/99370308e8a0832e33ea429f/w/6642ae255bceb8bd5accfbc8/e/e30bbb48bf7b9316bd71b6a3…

MichaelPascoe

Re: Holes and Constraints

Use an alternate plane to start holes.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/2f96dbdee80691df06a7f1ab/w/4c3397d0a9b350e7b55c4fc7/e/b9ff79202843b07bc5c397d4

glen_dewsbury

Re: Improvements to Onshape - June 27th, 2025

I agree with other users that the new documents page is a big step backwards. It is very frustrating to use.

Comments

There is way too much wasted space at the top of the window.
Suggest new "Last opened by me" section be removed since it appears to be redundant with the "Recently opened" option in the left-hand vertical menu
Suggest new "Folders" menu be moved into the left-hand vertical menu
"Last opened by me" and "Folders" menus do not remember collapsed state when moving back and forth between Onshape editing modes