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Re: Question about how to extend ridge.
If I understand your question, a sweep would work.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
All good stuff but Query Variables is EPIC!!! It solves a huge issue I wrote like 3 featurescripts to overcome
Re: New Custom Feature: Selection Fillet
Hey @tim_o and @peter_van_westen sorry I missed your messages. I think you may have mentioned my old username so I didn't get notified. I came here today to declare this feature deprecated with the new release of Query Variables! Very happy to see the implementation of that one. I won't have to totally re-work my brain to use it.
Re: Notes, The Least Loved Part of Onshape
I had to do this shit exactly a few months ago. It hurt my soul...
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Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
Query Variable is everything I'd ever hoped it would be π₯² I think we can call Selection Fillet retired after 5 years in service π«‘ (*cue the forlorn trumpet music*)
Document notes is a huge one for collab, which Onshape is the best CAD on earth for!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
For years I've been wanting there to be something with the power of Grasshopper for Rhino, but in Onshape. Query Variables feels like an essential part of a very Onshape approach to this goal.
This isn't fully thought out, but what if there was a "pattern variable" or some other way of generating a list of inputs for other features? Patterning tools in Onshape are powerful, but having to essentially construct a weird For loop in Onshape with a variable feature like #P=#P+1 always feels a bit convoluted. I'd like to generate a list of dimensions, or dimensionless indices, or U/V vertices etc to drive features. Being able to do some math or calculations within the definition of that pattern variable would be great.
S1mon
Re: Notes, The Least Loved Part of Onshape
Speaking for annoying things with notes: wanna mention there is still no spellcheck in there? This one kills me considering we have spellcheck for feature names and virtually everything, except for the most important place!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
Prayers have been answered! Thank you. πQuery Variables sounds pretty sweet. Looking forward to exploring that one.
Still looking for these requests to be filled:
*Add Internal guide/profiles to boundary surface
*Fix the Curve/Surface analysis tool to retain selections with final button (drops inputs depending on selections and scenarios)
*Improve sketch performance while using curvature constrains
*Sketch blocks
*Allow configurations to reference releases of parts and their configurations in an assembly
*G3 sketch constrain, surface end condition, and fillet/face blend option
Re: Query Finder (A new way to automate Onshape!) π
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π We can now use Query Variables - (Onshape Update) supported by Onshape's default features!
Welp, the query finder had a good 2 month life span. lol
Deprecated? I haven't played with the new query variables enough to tell, but at a glance I think I can deprecate the query finder.
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