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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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Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
RIP sheetMetalUnfold.fs, you'll always live on in my cursed origami tools.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
This is one of the most exciting changes to Onshape in a long time. Query variables will completely change modeling workflows. Notes are seemingly simple but huge. Thanks!
S1mon
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
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Woot! π
"The query finder is dead, long live the query variable!"
I've never been so happy to deprecate one of my own new features Query Finder π
This is exciting news!
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Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
Between Query Variables and Document Notes, this is my favorite and likely most useful update yet! I'm genuinely thrilled to see these
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
Query variables is huge! This has the potential to change how models are built, especially for highly configurable stuff. Looking forward to trying it out!
Document notes look very useful, and I've wanted a manual workspace update so many times!
Definitely a happy Friday before a long weekend!
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
Also let it be known that my first use of the new document notes feature was to immediately post a rickroll link into the documents my team was working on to show them the new tab.