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Re: Improvements to Onshape - October 10, 2025
Another great release!
"THIN AND LARGE ASPECT RATIO GEOMETRY IN SIMULATION" will be amazing as almost everything we work on is thin-walled and large aspect ratio. I can't wait to give it a stress test (pun intended!). I actually got a ticket closing response based on this release of Onshape regarding frames analysis. Onshape's frame design tools are amazing and if these frames can then be analyzed with finite element beam elements (behind the scenes) then Onshape would very quickly become the best end-to-end structural space frame design/analysis tool as these elements are incredibly efficient and fast for frame structures.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - October 10, 2025
The enterprise currently bears the cost of the seats (Full or Light) if you want "outside" help - you need to provide a Full Seat with "Guest" access if you need an external person to do work (create geometry). You can assign a Light guest seat if you only need them to review, export, or even approve Releases (your contractor, customer or vendor could have a light guest seat and be part of the approval chain for Revision control).
Guest access ensures they only have access to documents explicitly shared with them (and nothing else) but they can participate in all design functions, release management and export rules etc.
Having a way to provide access to your data from outside the Enterprise would reduce the cost of seats for the Enterprise - or in some cases just speed up the ability to engage. Procurement cycles can mean that although it's very fast to assign a license to a new person - it can be very slow to buy that license if you don't already have extra ones.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - October 10, 2025
At this point in time we are still using the guideline that aspect ratios above 100:1 are thin walled geometry. While we are happy with improvements made in this area, we are continuing to look to improve the speed and reliability of thin walled simulations before giving different guidelines.
Re: Mismatched input
The real question is - what are you trying to do? If you can use configurations to solve your problem that is going to be a much simpler solution than a featurescript. Especially if all you're trying to do is generate a part with a few variables.
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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