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Re: Render studio questions.
Indeed it does and actually we did see that creating some issues for the old Render Studio in several situations which is why how we add it back in is being carefully considered.shawn_crocker said:The old render studio used to render your customized appearance. One would think the same way the resources were allocated then could also be used safely now?
Unfortunately in this case the switch to using the full Onshape data model and all of the advantages that come with it required a very fundamental change. The issues users were most vocal about could not be solved without that change. While it might introduce some short term pain, we have the right foundation now to improve on iteratively going forward.The sudden realization that render studio has cycled back to basically being a whole new world of bugs and user unfriendliness that will require years of support ticket creation has got me feeling a bit sour. Agile is great until it starts meaning, "Don't use what you had working before anymore. Use this new thing that doesn't do some critical things you rely on so we can try to make it better."
In the process of making the changes we also resolved a large percentage of previously reported customer tickets on the original Render Studio, some of which were quite long standing and as I say couldn't be addressed without the shift to the Onshape data model (we did also squash quite a few other issues not related to the data model).
We considered feature parity with the old Render Studio very carefully and I don't believe there is anything that is critical which could be done in the old Render Studio that cannot be done in the new one (where as the reverse is certainly true). There may well be some gaps but we've tried to ensure these are not in critical areas (and we plan to fill those gaps).
Re: UI hint for collapsing booleans
It's not a UIHint. It's a "driving parameter" field. Look here for the info. https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/uispec.html
annotation { "Name" : "Additional Options" } definition.additionalOptions is boolean;
if (definition.additionalOptions) { annotation { "Group Name" : "Options", "Collapsed By Default" : false, "Driving Parameter" : "additionalOptions" } { annotation { "Name" : "Option" } definition.option is string; } }
Re: Is there a way to get the XYZ coordinates of a mouse clicked point on an object? (Featurescript)
The triad manipulator is a way to go for this, you place it on surface at some starting point and in manipulator change function you projecting current position of its origin to reference body and returning new coordinates. This loop will emulate the constraint as if manipulator was binded to reference entities, and it makes sure that the point defined by manipulator lies on the boundary of the body
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Re: Versioning Philosophy in Onshape
@philip_thomas I understand mostly. My only point of confusion is that although a version is not always a release, a release is always a version of the document. Therefore from a high level it takes digging into each release to figure out what had happened since there are currently no good high level views. This becomes easier if the large document is broken out into many smaller more granular documents.
Re: Is there a equivalent to the Align tool from Fusion 360 in Onshape?
Are you using assemblys or a multipart studio? You don't have to group to mate. Grouping is a quick way of sticking things together from a multipart studio.
Re: Best method to design fan cover/ventilation grill _ metal sheet
If you have a fan grill design that is used over and over, you can make a standard punch like solid block with the design, derive and transform the part into the correct location then Boolean away. Saves having to sketch and redraw every time.
Re: Best method to design fan cover/ventilation grill _ metal sheet
Definitely doing a quarter is the better options.
If you want something more parametric you can also do it with patterns and variables, something like this:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/852d341b8a1b1f58da6c91d5/w/772cfdd5bc5c2d348305125c/e/59cc60c71f11ba72705e18b6?renderMode=0&tangentEdgeStyle=1&uiState=665750a68ec498535fab94bf
Here's a relevant passage in this webinar too that might be of interest: https://youtu.be/4thhe0pidKI?t=1887
And some more info on the subtleties of using variables in patterns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1vVKmfVeWM
That said I thought I had seen a FS for this but I can't seem to find it...
If you want something more parametric you can also do it with patterns and variables, something like this:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/852d341b8a1b1f58da6c91d5/w/772cfdd5bc5c2d348305125c/e/59cc60c71f11ba72705e18b6?renderMode=0&tangentEdgeStyle=1&uiState=665750a68ec498535fab94bf
Here's a relevant passage in this webinar too that might be of interest: https://youtu.be/4thhe0pidKI?t=1887
And some more info on the subtleties of using variables in patterns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1vVKmfVeWM
That said I thought I had seen a FS for this but I can't seem to find it...