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Re: New Custom feature: Publish geometry
- you can’t include sketches in a regular composite part, or mate connectors.
- The feature creates a single composite part of all the references and automates a couple of other handy steps for the workflow
Basically #2 adds convenience and encourages a good workflow. #1 is not doable in any other way. Unless you write your own custom feature.
Re: who do I group a set of scketch entities
Good idea, while it doesn't fix the issue it's a…useable enough Band-Aid for now. I should have thought of that since I use that for other things, thanks.
Re: Custom Feature: Cable/Wire Routing
Changelog for release 1.201
⭐ Added per-segment reset. Select a segment to edit first, then click the reset button.
⭐ Add route point UX has been improved for clarity and consistency.
⭐ Addition and removal of clips keeps route edits intact.
⭐ New "nudge" option provides mechanism for moving edit points between route segments.
Note: this update does not guarantee backwards compatibility - please see video for details.
Re: who do I group a set of scketch entities
There's a workaround if you are going to do this a lot: import your dxf with your text in a sketch, create a zero offset surface of all the faces and create a composite out of it.
Then you can derive this into your "design" part studio (either directly onto a reference mate connector, or you can use a transform feature to locate it).
Re: Changing line color of exported DXF
Thanks for the feedback. This is certainly in discussion with our development team. Please submit an Improvement request and we'll add yours to our list.
Re: Sweep along split line
I edited the initial post and corrected a syntax error on the sweep.
The code shown now works.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025
As others already said, please let us set a default unit for the DXF exports in the company settings or set it to the workspace units of length as default.
Re: Changing line color of exported DXF
Adding to @sebastianMaklary.
To change the color of bend lines you need to search "bend_line" and then you will need to go to result as shown in the image ( only two instances, one instance of SHEETMETAL_BEND_LINES_UP and one instance of SHEETMETAL_BEND_LINES_DOWN ) and then change 4th line which has indented 7 to 1. (1 will give you red color. Again refer to this link for color code standard
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Save the file and then you are good to go.
Open the saved .dxf file in laser cutting software and assign the layer of white lines to cutting and red lines to Mark.
Re: Feature Request - Merging in Assemblies
Autoboolean:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8430fb350d753c30baca955d/v/5bc0f2a19e99306ee9eeb469/e/70b6ccbd425d478fbc478b5c
Also has autocomposite in the same doc
Exporting DXF From Inkscape
I know this has been discussed quite a few times over the past decade, and there doesn't seem to be a perfect solution yet for all cases, but I'd like to see if I can start a thread here that compiles some best practices for exporting DXF files from Inkscape into an Onshape sketch for extrusion. In particular, I pasted a screenshot into Inkscape, and used the Brightness Cutoff or the Autotrace feature to turn it into nodes for export as DXF.
I mostly have questions, but I have read that the upper limit is 8000 nodes. Less nodes is better.
When exporting, save as a Desktop Cutting Plotter (AutoCAD DXF R14)(*.dxf) file. Don't forget to change the filetype in the name field at the top to .dxf as well. (IS R14 Correct?)
An Options panel appears, deselect ROBO-Master and select LWPOLYLINE. (IS THIS CORRECT?)
Once imported into Onshape and added to a Sketch, there may be problems with disconnected nodes and non-manifold sketches that baffle me. I don't know how to create a workflow for fixing. Many times the errors are too small to see even when zoomed in. And if I can find the errors, they can be difficult to fix since none of the points and lines are constrained - fixing it here breaks it there.
I have found a possible tool, Profile Inspector, that shows some errors, but I still don't know how to fix them.
I am assuming getting as much right in Inkscape and exporting will reduce errors as much as possible, but errors will still need to be fixed.
Any input from those more experienced that me?