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Re: The Perfect Mouse for CAD
I second @Rhett_Robinson 's vote for the MX Master 3. I've used, ummm, a lot of mice over the years: from tiny travel size ones (I have done a ton of work on the road and on the armrests of coach-class plane seats), wired, wireless, MagicMouse, trackball, pen (Wacom), and even homemade….
But the current one I use (MX Master 3) in conjunction with a SpaceMouse is the best setup I've used. It is the right combo of the ergonomics, weight, mouse button "action", enough programmability and long battery life. I've done a lot of customization to Onshape keyboard shortcuts to cluster them on the left side of the keyboard so I don't have to let go of the mouse very often.
Re: Avoiding accidental exit (or accidentally confirming) changes
I was joking about old dogs. There's a lot of bad habits that need changing.
OS is different in many ways and I think these guys have done a great job of beating out the desktop world. They've always said they would be faster than the desktop and I believe they are. You just have to find some nuggets.
-The drag n drops works amazingly well and manipulating the feature tree is a dream compared to desktop equivalents.
-The cut n paste is extremely power and more useful then the desktop equivalents.
-Selection of items, this & that and then shift select.
-No files.
-And then async, no body knows what this means async link
There will be other CAD system in the cloud and OS has set the bar really high for acceptability. It's going to be exciting to experience.
billy2
Re: Toy coaster track
@MDesign thanks for the tip. Loft and path is the way to go.
Regards.
Re: New Custom Feature: Publish Geometry
@romeograham sorry, just saved v3 which now doesn't delete any of the selected mate connectors.
Re: The Perfect Mouse for CAD
I'm currently using the Razer Naga V2 Hyperspeed mouse. It's an MMO mouse with a 12-key thumb pad that I've programmed to have my enter key, backspace, delete and all of the orthographic views (i.e. front, left, right, etc.). There is also a "switch" button that turns my thumb pad into a number pad so I can enter dimensions and such without using the keyboard.
Re: Fully-defined sketches: what are they, and why care?
Short sighted management. ROI on a dual monitor setup happens immediately and repeatedly each time an error is not made due to better oversight. But there is no honour to be gained in prevention. Heroes are born when an error made has to be corrected.
BTW.: These days, one large monitor is cheaper than two mid-sized ones.
Re: New Custom Feature: Publish Geometry
thanks @joshtargo !!
@romeograham - if you remove this bit it should stop consuming the MC's
opDeleteBodies(context, id + "deleteBodies1", {
"entities" : definition.mc
regarding the naming of MC's - I was hoping for the same thing but couldn't get it to work. It seems that Onshape doesn't let you get a feature name in featurescript - I think because renaming a feature doesn't trigger a rebuild so there is no way to catch if it has changed.
Re: Compliance Help: Saving work for 7 years
In industry, STEP files are used for similar compliance requirements. Onshape is a modeling service, so I don't know what "original submission" means. The work is generated in Onshape. I can't see that your state compliance requirements say anything about feature trees. Where is this requirement coming from?
As you know, Onshape does not use files. It uses databases to store your design work. I agree with @Ste_Wilson, an Education Enterprise plan is a better way to satisfy your compliance requirements.
Re: Gear Lab - Cylindrical, Bevel, Face Gears
can you make the icon public again so we can see it in the FS dropdown?
