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Re: Enter inches in mm project?
I of course am making that opinion with many years of hindsight. And it is an opinion. I've never once used a drafting board after graduation other than to set the big monitors, cpu and mouse and keyboard on. Any skill that can be learned manually on the board can be learned using CAD. And as time goes by we are seeing the need for 2d fading more and more. Will be interesting to see what's possible in just a few more years.
MDesign
Re: Enter inches in mm project?
+1 for using the quote for inches and apostrophe for feet. Had a teacher that required us to memorize decimal fraction down to sixteenths. Turns out it was good that he did. Making us do drafting on the board was a waste of time though. 🤣
MDesign
Re: Threads and mirroring question
Your mirrored threads are correct, except they're backwards. By mirroring the part you've inverted the threads to run the opposite direction from the first side, so now they're left handed. What you need is a circular pattern or other transform that doesn't have a mirroring effect on the geometry to preserve the thread direction.
Re: Tabs & Slots
@mohamad_dawood I had the same barrier to entry when I made the transition from Solidworks and found the same issues with the existing tab and slot features that people had developed. Love that laser joint script, except it doesn't work on sheet metal parts which is disqualifying for my workflows. Also none of the public solutions work on curved edges. I worked with @Caden_Armstrong to custom develop a sheet metal version of tab and slot for our company, but there are some small things that don't work the same was as it does in Solidworks that I'm now going back and refactoring to get better stability and patterning features to make it work more like expected. Should be publishing it here in the next week or two when I'm done with the rewrite.
Re: Magic Mana Symbol
Behold the power of Onshape public document sharing:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/c47efa2ae118b4975ba14c7b/w/4439ee777993528b7a24cb6d/e/e0dfb720969ffe7f992846a0
jnewth
Re: How Can I Arbitrarily Union All Parts?
With query variables, released last week, you don't actually need a custom feature: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1d6e0377cf0f750eff7459ce/w/1c7134042e9bafff5eb91889/e/7153a5bd1aeae6d9dbaf9635
_anton
NEW Video series: Expressions in Onshape
Onshape does a good job at blurring the lines between CAD and code without being overwhelming for beginners. One way this happens is by allowing access to FeatureScript functions in any input field. In this series I'm covering pretty much everything I know about it from basic to advanced. Videos 1 and 2 are out now with another 4 or so on the way.
Part 1: Math and Units
Part 2: Number manipulation
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
Ok, guess my Query Finder isn't deprecated just yet.
I've added an option called "Convert to Query Variable" to the
Set Query Attribute feature. This will let us still use attributes and expressions but convert the results to a Query Variable. Not ideal as it takes extra steps but the functionality is there.
Query Variable Feedback:
- The implementation is beautiful, but doesn't work with my main use cases for it. I'm less worried about it cluttering up the tree than I am missing functionality.
- Doesn't allow expressions in the name field
- Isn't working in feature patterns
- When getting variables, I can't use an expression
These are some important points. If we can't use expressions, it really limits the amount of automation we can achieve.
