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Re: Notes, The Least Loved Part of Onshape
While I'm ranting about drawings, why are leaders for dimensions formatted differently from bend notes? Why would anyone want the leader to touch the text for bend notes?
S1mon
Unable to transfer ownership to a paid account after end of trial without making docs public
I've been doing product design work for a few startups that individually have had pro trials. At the end of the trials I managed to convert one startup to paid but the other 2 are not ready yet so I have opted to buy a licence and continue development for them as a service instead.
The problem we are having is that the transfer ownership option for docs is not available after the trial ends.
Support advised to switch the company back to free which would transfers ownership to the company owner and then the docs would be transferable but this is incorrect. Only docs that we make public have the transfer ownership option. We do not want to make the docs public for IP reasons. I have paid for a licence we've just decided to go forward in a different structure.
Support has completely ghosted after the initial reply.
Request #389882
I think this is a really puzzling decision from Onshape. The biggest push back I get moving companies to Onshape or any cloud service is worries about ownership of data. It's great that Onshape keeps docs private after the trial ends but not allowing transfer to a paid account feels like holding customer data hostage and confirms concerns about data ownership at least in this particular scenario.
I appreciate I will eventually be able to get support to transfer these files if I ever get another reply, but it would be great to see the ability to transfer to a paid account allowed generally.
This has cost me 2 days of work so far with a looming deadline. Not a great experience after becoming a customer.
JoshOC
Re: How to split a part at a feature such as dovetails?
Yes. the thickness is your tolerance and the depth is the how far you want to extrude it. oh and no need to use boolean. just switch to remove option in the extrude and it'll save you the boolean step. brain fart there forgot about using it to remove material. Got too focused on splitting.
MDesign
Re: Notes, The Least Loved Part of Onshape
Another fundamental issue is there's no way to put GD&T in a note, which is something that I've seen as a standard at multiple companies over my career. In order to do this, we're manually dragging a separate GD&T callout separately from the note, and the note text has a bunch of spaces to make a hole for this.
S1mon
Re: when a sketch is not fully defined, is there a way to change the highlight from blue
I don’t think an improvement request has been created for this. As a red green color deficient person… I share this difficulty. I see blue very well but not against black. Here’s an example of the impossibility of seeing what’s unconstrained.
My suggestion would be to make it user configured. I don’t think an IR has been created. At least I haven’t found one.
MDesign
Re: How to split a part at a feature such as dovetails?
There is a free "split by dovetail" feature:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/5870a3cec9a0cb038c39303c/w/eb8e4229f136dab7828612e4/e/903ef67c00c695bbd09f9e54
Re: when a sketch is not fully defined, is there a way to change the highlight from blue
It would be nice if the "profile inspector" could be set to highlight all underdefined vertices (instead of just "outer" end points)…
Re: How to split a part at a feature such as dovetails?
@christopher_luckenbill Your welcome. Pro tip for you (I stole it from a pro). if you extrude the shape of the dovetail as a "thin" and then boolean subtract it from the part you get 2 parts and you get built in tolerance fit when you print it.
MDesign
Feature Request: Pause Real-Time Rendering in Rendering Studio
Dear Onshape Team,
I hope you're well. I’d like to suggest a feature enhancement for the Rendering Studio that I believe would significantly improve the user experience and workflow efficiency.
Currently, real-time rendering updates continuously as changes are made to the scene. While this is helpful for immediate visual feedback, it can also slow down the process when working on complex models or adjusting multiple appearance settings.
It would be incredibly useful to have the option to manually pause real-time rendering. This would allow users to make several changes—such as tweaking materials, lighting, or geometry—without waiting for the renderer to update after each adjustment. Once the scene is ready, rendering could be resumed to preview the final result.
This feature would:
- Enhance performance during scene setup.
- Reduce lag and improve responsiveness.
- Allow for more focused and efficient design iterations.
Thank you for considering this request. I appreciate the continued development of Onshape and look forward to seeing how the platform evolves.
Warm regards,
Dewald Hattingh
Draughtsman