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Re: Standard content component requests

This thread is popular, and there are also numerous improvement requests for additional standard content - in fact too numerous for me to list them all here. I would hazard a guess that even in companies where they've managed to use standard content for most of their hardware, there are so many holes in the standard content that any serious project ends up needing some custom models or downloaded models for OTS hardware. That would be an interesting metric for Onshape - how many products/projects has your company needed to create or download hardware that was missing from the standard content?

Hopefully there are some updates coming which expand the standard hardware.

S1mon

Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 12th, 2024

@ilya_baran

In addition to what @S1mon and @eric_pesty mention, we also tend to use configurations in assemblies to hide(suppress) different components. Fasteners, complex OTS parts, etc. Excluding these configurations from affacting BOM would also be great. I know using configuration to hide parts is not best practice, but currently this method is more user friendly than the Display state dialogue.

Another point is assemblies of linked parts, like e-chains or roller chains, where the different positions of the chain are controlled by suppressing and unsuppressing parts. Especially in bends and loops.

I can see that excluding configurations controlling suppressions is more difficult in terms of what to show in the BOM. But if we at least could have the "Set Default" functionality from the video above, then we would not have to worry about the suppression configurations being in the wrong state during release.

e_g_e

Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 12th, 2024

Mainly we model cylinders in extended/retracted/floating (slider with limits) configs.

When you have one cyl extended and one retracted etc. Then you end up with duplicate rows on the bom

With sensors, we have sub assemblies with swivel brackets, sometimes you need to flip the swivel around to get a different angle. So today we have to make a whole assembly just for this. I'd like to just configure that since it is all the same parts, just assembled one part upside down.

john_mcclary

Re: Onshape Government!

This should open up a lot more industries moving to Onshape, this is great news!

Rhett_Robinson

Re: How can I fill this gap between a part and surface?

Instead of adding things to fill the gap, did you try to just remove the faces that make up the gap itself? Just select all of them and use the "Delete Face" feature:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/663cd323e2422dfed715ba67/w/3e90579e2518869f0aaccd11/e/fe24076c1953a851abb2266c?renderMode=0&uiState=673204b513d4cd337dcf6a12

martin_kopplow

Methodology for building a part which interfaces to a point cloud?

I have the below model (screenshotted for easy viewing):

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/17bad9776038074b4e64b4ec/w/3c1369cd650af91275920fca/e/90da2c51d44320ccc80a41d8?renderMode=0&uiState=6732024b2c9a427329cc8895

This is a part off a small airplane, where a wing strut attaches to the wing. See circled area below:

I want to make a small cover to make that intersection have less drag. I'm realizing that I have no idea how to go about this. I've made a bunch of parts over the years, so I'm reasonably familiar with OnShape, but I don't have a methodology for working with all these non-planar interfaces nor thinking about how the parts represented by the point cloud— which will ultimately be on the inside of the fairings— might need to be handled.

This seems really easy conceptually, all that needs to happen is the end of the slipstreamed tube needs to be interfaced to the flat underside of the wing, covering up all the draggy nuts, bolts, and fittings. And since there's no structural nature of the parts and there's almost no way to make drag worse then everything is a win. I these were parts inside OnShape, I could just loft and boolean everything and be clicking "print" within the hour, but as an STL point cloud I'm unsure where to start.

Does anyone have any advice?

kenn_sebesta167

Re: Need help cutting shape into a solid

Either your document is not Public or your link is incorrect.

If you right click the document on the document page (Home Page) and select "Make Public" we should be able to see it

GWS50

Re: black back ground

In Onshape, a black screen indicates that you are having a graphics rendering problem (or you're in dark mode). If you are in Chrome, check to make sure hardware acceleration is enabled:

Go to chrome://settings/
System
Make sure “use hardware acceleration when available” is checked.
Go to chrome://flags/
Make sure “Override software rendering list” is Enabled.

Matt_Shields