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Re: PLEASE explain "externally disambiguated" / "transient" / "robust" / "tracked" / "unstable" ID's etc
Thanks for the tag @EvanReese! I had some free time today, so I went ahead and threw together a video on Queries and Ids specifically. Hopefully this hits the level of detail desired without being too over-the-top technically. I'm also happy to answer any additional questions and/or give additional explanation as needed.
Onshape FeatureScript Queries and Ids Deep Dive
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
I know it's probably un-fun as an Onshape dev to give everyone the gift of new functionality only to get feedback on it, but I'm just too pumped about Query Variable to help myself. First off, this implementation is amazing, and I find myself using it frequently already, which is why I've got a few thoughts.
- I'm with @S1mon that doing them on the fly inside of a feature would be awesome. I'd do them that way more often than not
- Along with the above idea, I think there's room for two kinds. One that's this feature in the tree, and another that's just for a one-off query. As I'm using them more, I find myself making them to only be used once by the very next feature, and I'd love to not clutter up the autocomplete with these. I'd love to make them and edit them like implicit mate connectors, and have them live inside the parent feature instead of the feature tree. Ideally there'd be a way to pop it out to a feature later if needed.
- I found myself wanting it in the curvature analysis tool earlier for surfacing workflows.
Food for thought. All-in-all I can't overstate how great of a functionality it already is. Thanks, Product Team!
Re: Modelling a Knurl
The best way to handle knurl is to not need it. If you can get away with just a drawing callout on a smooth surface, do that. This is similar to how threads are handled standard in Onshape, and for good reason. Even if you could get the regen time down, the triangles needed to render it will bog down any assembly it's in. This is why it's worth the effort to actually remove knurl from imported models.
But if you understand all of that and deem your case one of the exceptions (maybe you're 3D printing or doing high-end renderings), then use a workflow of Splits instead of Boolean operations (Add, Remove, Intersect in features). I did an example knurled knob this way and got 50 knurls in 25 seconds. I think this workflow is a bit better than my previous post in this thread. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ffed96b8ba6f07be89628b16/w/6b20bab0a3a27defb6324ccf/e/0d31ae5675abfb1430e8dc72
Re: First project challenge — bending irregular geometry in Onshape
Based on this image in your document…It looks like a simple extrude will capture most all of the curved features. Then you'd just need to work out the opposing cuts/angles to get the rest of it. Red represents what might be the first extrude feature., pink a hole feature. and blue a circular pattern feature.
MDesign
Re: Create and edit an object using a DXF file
Should be able to open now.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - August 29th, 2025
Besides the Query variables, the Document notes are also awesome. Now you don't necessarily need the Link Tab Utilities app anymore because URLs are recognized in Notes and therefore active (sorry @lougallo ). However... a Link Tab is always visible and therefore indicates a URL, whereas Notes doesn't. As long as you don't press the Note button, you won't see that a note exists. That's why I posted an IR requesting an indicator.
This is the link to the IR:
Re: Mouse shortcuts
If you use a 3DConnexion Spacemouse, you can use the same motions for a lot of programs (including Onshape and Bambu Studio) and not warp your brain.
S1mon
WebGL problem with Firefox and Google ANGLE
FYI, ran into a recent issue where onshape's compatibility checker said I had webgl disabled (I did not), with a supported GPU and recent(ish) drivers.
The issue seems to be some Gl compatibility layer called Google ANGLE.
Steps taken:
1. https://cad.onshape.com/check showed webgl not enabled, whole section red
2. I checked "about:config" to see that webgl was in fact enabled (webgl.disabled=false)
3. Then checked "about:support" to reveal that the renderer was "Google Inc. (NVIDIA) -- ANGLE (NVIDIA, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Direct3D11 vs_5_0 ps_5_0, D3D11-32.0.15.6094)"
4. Suspicious………. Went back into "about:config" and turned off ANGLE (webgl.disable-angle=true)
5. Now everything is working correctly :)
Firefox ver: 138.0.1
GPU model: Nvidia RTX 3090
GPU driver ver: 560.94
OS ver: Windows 10 v19045.5737
Re: Improvements to Onshape Drawings - August 6, 2015
Is my fault,
Tangent edge> Solid and edge appear.
Re: Need help with a idea for a time lapse using the feature tree.
I've written a quick test script using the API as described by @Paul_J_Premakumar. The script is very much WIP (but does work), but I like the result less than the 'real' screenshot option; seeing the sketches and some of the UI is a bit more interesting. Might depend on your needs though.
As this forum doesn't allow formatting code, and Python code breaks when it looses the right indentation, I've made a gist on Github:
https://gist.github.com/javl/b0ec23ce20e3a06160ed28aada3a5a34
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