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Re: Sheet Metal Model from apparently continuous surface
The line I assume you're referring to is the one between the cone and the flats next to it. I'm able to select any other straight line and add a bend. The issue with that line specifically is the interaction between the cone and the flat requires the bend area to fall back into the conic bend area and the sheet metal features currently aren't built to handle a bend line interacting with a cone in this way. If you instead do a sheet metal thicken on just the cone face and attempt to draw a flange on that edge you'll get more clear errors than the sheet metal convert or sheet metal thicken workflow explains to you.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - October 10, 2025
This is what I'm reacting to as well, yes. My current understanding is that a guest seat cost is paid by the enterprise while the contractor is also paying for their pro license.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - October 10, 2025
I could be getting this wrong, but the last time I tried to have someone help with something in an enterprise that wasn’t inside the enterprise, it involved a lot of steps to transfer ownership to the cad.onshape account and then into the enterprise side.
My understanding is that a guest seat costs the enterprise extra money. Depending on the company, this is just normal cost of doing business, but it seems really weird that as an enterprise I can’t hire someone who already has a seat and have them do some work on shared documents without paying for an extra seat.
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Re: Object floating above the plane.
Thank you for the reply. I saved the workspace to make a change, and it dropped down by itself. When I opened the original, it had dropped down also. Weird. Maybe I 'was' seeing things.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 19th, 2025
Folders and nested folders is a legacy from The early days of Microsoft window's. It makes no sense in a database driven Onshape.
A better way to sort documents would be using tags and maybe nested tags like a table of contents.
always look at the end product of our design work the spare part catalog
Ex Tesla truck , if you put all assemblies and sub-assemblies in folders it would be a gigantic tree usually 10-12 levels
Referring to my discussion "name and part number convention" there must be be a smarter way of doing it. No folders
Re: Is it possible to design 3rd part plugins?
@thales_maia : You can develop apps to work with Onshape. Documentation is here : https://onshape-public.github.io/docs/app-dev/
Re: how to import stl files
Onshape now has native import of mesh files! You can import them like any other geometry from the either documents page or from within a document (help page).
Check out this video for more information about how to work with meshes in Onshape:
