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Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 14th, 2021
255 users have been asking for over 2 years to have the option to draw external threads so they can make a simple screw drawing which is still not possible in OS, and you are dealing with the center marks colors.....I think somthing is wrong with your priorities
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 14th, 2021
I don't know about that priorities list. I'd kind of guess people will simply up-vote any and every idea. Screw threads on a drawing or in a 3D model in particular is a weird one to me to be #2. I've designed a few custom screws for mass production, and didn't even draw the threads on the 3D or 2D. Just a note on what they should be. I know there are some people that might need them, but for enough engineers to vote on that to make it #2 in a list of requested improvements? I'm not buying that.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 14th, 2021
The Folders capability is awesome. Can this easily be extended to include this feature to the Mate Features list ? It would be wonderful to be able to group mates as well.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 14th, 2021
guy_rogel said:255 users have been asking for over 2 years to have the option to draw external threads so they can make a simple screw drawing which is still not possible in OS, and you are dealing with the center marks colors.....I think somthing is wrong with your priorities
@guy_rogel has a good point. The improvement request forum page was created to allow users to voice opportunities for improvement and allow others to vote them up. Many of the top 10 open items have been on this page for 2+ years (see attached image)
My organization has been asking for 3+ years on more sheet metal features and since then we have gotten hems & flipping the flat pattern. 3yrs of our patience is starting to running out.
Is the improvement request forum still considered the best place for users to upvote ideas?
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 14th, 2021
Awesome! I can finally hide all my hardware! Thank you.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 14th, 2021
You can't say it isn't possible to make screw drawingsguy_rogel said:255 users have been asking for over 2 years to have the option to draw external threads so they can make a simple screw drawing which is still not
possible in OS, and you are dealing with the center marks colors.....I think somthing is wrong with your priorities
but I agree, it would be nice to have built in external cosmetic threads.
Until then, here are 4 options for you:
from fastest to slowest:
- split face where threads would be
- create a single helix to represent thread
- use the featurescript Cosmetic Thread to create a double helix Cosmetic Thread - Public | Cosmetic Thread (onshape.com)
- use the featurescript Create Thread to create a full 3D model of the thread PP_ThreadCreator Beta | threadcreator.fs (onshape.com)
