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Onshape Boston User Group: Designing What’s Next
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Re: Is CAM Studio included in the Discovery program?
Yes! Create a Document, then in the bottom left corner, click the + symbol and choose CAM Studio.
Re: Troubleshooting procedure for fillet failure (and any other failed feature, for that matter)
First images are the inside area opposite the circled area on the outside. What I noticed was that the section that should have been straight was broken up into two segments so I zoomed in and did a section (along the right plane).
The view is min radius with limits set to 9 and 11, i.e. either side of the thickness.
One way to fix it is to delete the offending faces and patch with "fill". In this case it seems to be just the vertical face, just needs a new straight edge at the bottom (using a 3d fit spline) and it works:
New Feature: Poly-Mate Connectors
My drafting team have run into situations where they've needed to define multiple explicit mate connectors in one operation for ease of organization and later reference in features. Naturally after searching for an existing tool that does multiple connectors in one operation and not finding one they requested that I develop a quality of life script that does this multi mate connector operation.
Introducing: Multi-Mate Connectors wait that's taken
Introducing: Poly-Mate Connectors
It places multiple explicit mate connectors in one go, so if you need to re-reference them multiple times it's easy to hide and show them all at once by changing the visibility of the feature itself. This makes it simple to drag select the whole window to grab all the explicit mate connectors in frame to quick select locations for hole operations or things not easily defined by sketch geometry.
New API limits = 85 requests per day per company
Why are the new limits so low? (20,000 per year per company)
And why only for private apps?
(And being only for private apps makes it look it isn't about infrastructure)
This will be terrible for exporting (~15 requests per drawing per revision once you take into account polling and getting properties and downloading the resulting file etc)
GitHub gives 120,000 per day
Google Docs gives ~85,000 per day per user
Microsoft gives 40,000 per day per company
Gitlab gives ~8500 per day per user
Onshape gives 85 per day per company
@billy2 @MichaelPascoe @Caden_Armstrong this will probably affect you
Re: Drawings/create API
Did you end up figuring this out? I want to do the same thing (except with 2 views).
Re: Drawings/create API
@Christopher_Ace_Caoile That's a good idea. It would be cool though, if an Onshape developer could step in here to be clear on how it can be done efficiently or if it can be done. It would seem it should be able to be done, simply because it is being done within the Onshape UI. Sadly much of the API calls being done within the Onshape UI seem to be made server side, so picking through your console to see what is actually happening is not much help with respect to drawings I have found.
Re: best way for loft sections between two changing size faces in different parts
In the case of cylindrical… make a surface, a sketch, wrap the sketch on the surface with the split option, then thicken the pieces of the surface.
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