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Fish80
Re: New Part Spacing Featurescript
@derek_van_allen By complete coincidence I saw your comment not long after you posted. If you want to chat more email me @ dziuba.christopher@gmail.com. I'm usually not on here on this account. It makes me ecstatic to know someone out there is making good use of my little tool.
I use "AlphaCAM export" in conjunction with Assign Material, assign Edging and AlphaCAM export table for work and it makes it possible to use AlphaCAM with Onshape to make workorders with:
-Machine Style assignment (specific to Alphacam)
-Material assignment
-Grain direction
-Edge Banding
-Automatic premill offset for non-premillable edges
-and more to come
I also use the edging takeoff table to quickly get an edging takeoff. Also note that I have searched far and wide for good CAMS to use with Onshape and nothing comes close to the speed and Optimisation magic of Alphacam. It's the only program I've seen that can nest better and faster then what I can do manually. But you must use there "Production Pack + Automation Manager" to get the most of it.
However I've decided to start working on an actual app for the appstore which is a mammoth project for me. Reason is even though my code works it's a bit tedious to use. If you want I'd be happy to show you how it works but you're not the 1st to ask so I feel like just making a YouTube video might be better.
Re: Configuration Tables are awesome, now how do I export my 300 parts?
I wrote a quick python script with the Onshape API to export all configurations of a part in a part studio, naming each item as its named in the configuration table. I've only tested this with what I'm using it for: nametags for many people, so I'm not sure how well it handles scaling up (i.e. multiple configuration parameters, etc). https://github.com/ZimengXiong/OnshapeBulkExportConfigurations
zixi_
Re: Drawing Specific Columns for BOM Tables?
Update - I got a message from @PeteYodis through support that this has been marked as an improvement request.
I'm also interested in if there are any other work arounds that people have been using for this?
S1mon
Re: New Part Spacing Featurescript
@christopher_dziuba sorry I couldn't help myself from staring at the other tabs in that doc. I've been getting some serious mileage out of a modified version of Make Skins for the last several months and I'm extremely curious about your AlphaCAM export tab. I'm in the market for some other CAM software options that can offer more automation than I'm working with now and AlphaCAM is one of the names on the list of candidates.
Re: Convert assembly directly to part studio
Load your assembly with all the parts required and in the positions you want and click the icon shown here (create Part Studio in context). Once you have your new in context part studio do a translate copy all parts in position which will be shown transparent.neil_brennan said:How do you "create a part studio in context"???? I get that it probably solves the problem, but have no idea how to go about it.
Re: Making dimensions that make the orginal scale in a drawing.
We have different definitions of fun. haha
MDesign
Re: Defining Libraries for Featurescript Usage?
Yes, we're working on supporting this for custom features, but it's going to be a bit of time before it's available.
Re: Need advice on how to make my Airflow Bottle waterproof
I'm realizing all of the advice here assumes we have to use the FDM machine. You could hire someone to print it on a resin machine like a Formlabs, and it would be easy to get a print that doesn't leak.
