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Support for Keyboard and mouse on mobile devices

I bought a tablet to use for my hobbies, one being using Onshape for my 3D printer designs. I decided to buy a keyboard and mouse to go with it but Onshape doesn't fully support them. I was hoping that when using the KB and mouse Onshape would use them just like on the PC. I still have to use the touchscreen to do certain things. Could it be possible to implement full support for KB and mouse?

ronald_knight

easing updated exports to 3d print slicers

When you have a single part to export to a 3d printing slicer their support for reloading and reapplying the manufacturing details you have added in the slicer can be useful. But, even with just one part many things are lost. You must repaint seem locations, support allow/block, etc. When you have multiple plates with multiple parts each, it doesn't seem to be reliable in my experience so far (with BambuStudio). Parts don't even stay in the right places within a multi-part step file reload.

So, I'm interested in learning how to make it simpler to export an updated project from OnShape and load it into the slicer with minimal manual reapplication of the manufacturing details. Seems, support locations, brims, etc. I am a coder by trade so if the only solution is some use of lib3mf, so be it. If there are things OnShape can already do to help out, even better. I'm hoping someone else here has some familiarity with this workflow and can educate me on where the boundaries must exist.

I already have an assembly of print plates that I use to export my parts from a project. I have a part representing the print bed and assemble as many as I need. I then assemble my actual parts onto those build plates. Apply patterns for repeated parts, etc etc. I'm not needing any more auto-layout at this point. I then select the parts from a plate in the OnShape assembly, export, and import back into the slicer.

For brims, I wrote up a featurescript and while I am able to generate and control the geometry (at least at a preliminary level) I am concerned I won't be able to overcome the limitations around not knowing exactly what the slicer is going to do for the first layer of the model so as to get a very small and controlled gap relative to it. I have at times used parts to control volumes for support blocking or making a portion of the part solid inside. This is useful but given the uncertainty of reloading from disk, I would expect to often still have to reconvert those volumes to not-printable in the slicer and apply the modifiers I want for them.

Looking down the lib3mf path, I would imagine having to add some data to properties on the parts and hoping that would make it out in some exported format. Code using lib3mf could then load the exported model, find those properties, and hopefully create the 3mf data they request.

Of course, if OnShape just added a slicer themselves... :]

Thanks for your interest.

Cheers,
-kyle

kyle_altendorf

New Login Screen, Citrus Circuits, FIRST Robotics

Our new login screen highlights Citrus Circuits! A FIRST robotics team with some impressive winning streaks!

Check out their website and blogs here: https://www.citruscircuits.org/build-blog-2024.html

Check out the FIRST competitions here: https://www.firstinspires.org/robotics/frc

IgnacioMartos

Re: We need longer auth sessions

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/115677#Comment_115677

There is a socket reconnect, when it says "press here to reconnect". However, that is still taking up resources on AWS that PTC has to pay for. When it times out and you have to refresh, that is when the document has been unloaded so that the resources can be reallocated to active users.

NeilCooke

Re: Help! Challenge: Fretboard Generation

Nice feature @jelte_steur814! I had tried to come up with ways to make variable feature patterns easier for users but never quite was able to. This simplifies it really well.

MichaelPascoe

Re: Onshape AI Advisor Beta (Coming Soon)

Thanks all for the feedback. The first release of the Onshape AI Advisor (which we hope to have out very soon) will focus on answering questions regarding using Onshape. It won't be optimized on day one for writing FeatureScript or interacting with the API. We want to ship it as soon as it adds value, and then iterate with improvements in each release.

But we've heard you (and others) loud and clear, and are prioritizing this capability for a future improvement.

@S1mon It is built using Amazon Bedrock

@MichaelPascoe It will include the majority of the data sources that you reference. However, the Onshape AI Advisor will not include any user data (even public forum posts) as a source. This is a clear line we are drawing. It's possible (with enough requests) that we add something like this in the future, but only after a user gives explicit permission.

We feel there is a lot of potential for the future, and appreciate all your feedback.

cody_armstrong