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Custom Feature: Cable/Wire Routing
Cable/Wire Routing: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/3599036701247d65f0106997 There have been many wiring custom features created over the years, each using a different approach and each having different strengths, but none focused on the end-to-end process. This new set of custom features takes the best ideas from those…
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Custom Feature: Mold & Die Design
On Thursday, 12/12/19, I hosted a webinar to talk about mold design methodologies in Onshape and to introduce 4 new custom features. The replay of the webinar can be found here. As the names suggest, these custom features automate the creation of core and cavity geometry. A number of Onshape users have already beta-tested…
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Feature Studio Keyboard Shortcuts
For those of us who do a lot of custom feature coding, shortcuts can be very handy. Attached is a PDF of all the ones you didn't know existed! These will be added to the help documentation in the future.
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New Custom Feature: Animate
Onshape's Animate feature can only animate one mate at a time. Adding gear relations between mates can make animations more interesting, but if you need an animation showing a sequence of events, then there is no easy way to achieve this other than using the amazing (but manual) technique developed by @john_mcclary This…
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New Custom Feature: Simplify
A common requirement when sharing CAD data is to simplify it by removing internal details and intellectual property. This feature, in combination with in-context modelling, creates a simplified representation of an assembly or part. Please try it out and if you find any problems or have any examples where it doesn't work,…
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Custom Feature: Gridfinity Bin & Base Generators
I just wanted to share the two generators I've written: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f307f8af01083b99b55bbcf9/w/e62d7ab7a660a796bb9461a7/e/10837cead0dddf47a9b60a3b https://cad.onshape.com/documents/f307f8af01083b99b55bbcf9/w/e62d7ab7a660a796bb9461a7/e/6f4023e4bb25eda38c5e4f2d cheers!
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New featureScript: Voronoi face lattice
Hi everyone, This is my first post here, so let me start by introducing myself. I’ve been a professional Onshape user since 2019 and have been creating FeatureScripts from the very beginning. My background is in aerospace engineering, composite material science, and robotics. In my day job, I’ve had the privilege of…
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Introducing Camel: CAM for OnShape, implemented in FeatureScript
Camel is a CAM application for OnShape, implemented in FeatureScript. Use the Camel FeatureScript library to generate tool
paths from a PartStudio to drive a 3-axis machine such as a CNC router.
Use Camel’s companion app to download toolpaths or simply copy/paste them from the FeatureScript notices panel. Refer to the…
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Custom Feature Mutual Trim
I hope that surfacing users would appreciate this custom feature Please give your feedback.
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New Feature: Multi-Mirror
I often work with symmetrical designs in multi-part studios, and many times I have a number of parts to mirror across multiple planes. With the standard mirror feature, I have to use a new feature for each part x the number of planes to mirror about. That means if I have 3 parts to mirror about the top, right, and front…
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New FeatureScript: Thread Creator
Hi, everyone: It has been a while, but I've been busily working on a new feature for everyone to try. I'm proud to release ThreadCreator Version 1.0, featuring: * Thread Types: ANSI, ISO, ACME, Square, and DIN 103 ( ISO Trapezoidal) * Internal and External Threads * Multi-start threads for lead screws * Left/Right handed…
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Thickness Analysis (New Custom Feature!)
Thickness Analysis (New Custom Feature!) https://cad.onshape.com/documents/thicknessAnalysis With this custom feature, you can easily analyze the thickness of multiple faces. Special thanks to @Jacob_Corder for some performance tips. This feature is sponsored by CADSharp.com. If your daily modeling is repetitive, consider…
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Texture (New Custom Feature!)
Texture (New Custom Feature!) https://cad.onshape.com/documents/46897a2d60ade8dbb04077f3/w/23398bd91a932d1432a5d204/e/201138fdd8eee8cfcd2dcac1 With Texture, you can create solid body textures by clicking a surface or face. Use pre-loaded textures, or use your own custom texture, (See the tutorial gifs below). This feature…
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Wood grain texture Custom Feature
Often when modeling furniture and other objects created from wood I want to communicate the orientation of the wood grain on a part. This eliminates confusion when creating the parts in the workshop. To solve this I created a Wood grain texture custom feature! This low resolution feature is intended to demonstrate the…
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New FeatureScript Weld
We would like to introduce you a new FeatureScript that @mbartlett21 and I have createdFeatureScript Weld This custom feature creates welds using the user’s selection. It currently supports fillet welds and many types of butt welds. Something I think Onshape people will like to know is that Morgan @mbartlett21 and I do not…
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New Feature - Banana for Scale
Get Banana for Scale Here Do you struggle to design real world objects within the confines of a computer? Do you lack the discretionary funds for an apple vision? Do you have difficult design constraints such as "would a banana fit in here?". Introducing the newest feature from the SmartBench team - Banana for Scale.…
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Updated custom feature: Fill pattern
By popular request, I have reworked Fill pattern to allow closer packing of instances and borders, plus better performance and error handling. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57361ad4e4b00e5012c3857c Caution: When updating existing models to this latest version, the improved border detection will modify the number of…
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Table (New Custom Feature!)
Table (New Custom Feature!) https://cad.onshape.com/documents/01485b6de17aef414a25e778/w/926dfaef6b63d239b8d9d739/e/fb5da00aa581ddc9c53c4379?renderMode=0&rightPanel=cutlistPanel&uiState=6398b9684c6d6f30a465a5b1 Table allows you to: * Import CSV data * Manually input data * Store data as a custom table * Store data as a…
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New Feature - Bridge Overhang (for 3D printing)
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/9db73769726a7c1968a9eec6/w/a94665f4983acd43414a91e8/e/f98a3b9885864c1f11d186d6 This tool lets the user print normally difficult geometry much more cleanly. Generally, when printing geometry with counterbored (or pocketed) geometry on the bottom, the resulting print develops a solid amount…
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New Custom Feature - Arrows
This new custom feature creates arrows that can be used to explain how parts are assembled / disassembled, direction of travel, or how a product should be operated. You can create them in the same Part Studio as your parts or you can use in-context editing (the preferred method), then insert them into your assembly or…
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OnShapePy - a python package for OnShape
Hello all, About a month ago I set out to build a general purpose OnShape python package, OnShapePy. Today I have the first MVP launched and available to install through pip. The documentation is available here. The goal is to unlock the vast Python scientific libraries to OnShape parts. At AguaClara, we will be using…
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F1 Style Cambered Aerofoil Feature Script
I've been using Onshape for a while now, I lecture in Aerodynamics at Northumbria University in Newcastle, UK and actively use Onshape as part of the modules I teach across different Engineering disciplines. Recently I've been working on a slightly larger project with students to design an open-wheeled F1 style car and…
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Group Custom Features
The idea is simple. Be able to group Custom Features into drop downs. As I find more and more Custom Features, the list is getting longer and longer. I would love to be able to create drop down groups of custom features. For example, I would want to create a group of planes. It would operate much like pattern features are…
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Custom Feature: ProtoPipe – Totally tubular structures, totally fast.
Dear PiedPipers! Link to the ProtoPipe Every year, I challenge my Industrial Design students to an "intuitive engineering" contest: building bridges out of wooden sticks and 3D-printed nodes. Building these the standard way – juggling 3D-points, routing curves, queries, and pipe edges – works okay, but means a lot of going…
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Custom Feature: Triad Transform
-Link to feature up front- Onshape's vanilla transform feature doesn't give you those nice buttery smooth rotation handles to play with like the assembly tabs do, which is a shame because some of the most aesthetically pleasing structures aren't confined to the bounds of XYZ coordinates. I mean look at these crystal…
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New Award Winning Custom Feature
Photography has always been a fun hobby for me and recently I unearthed an old film camera. Studying light, thinking about how film works, and loving a good FS challenge, I was curious if I could recreate the Polaroid camera in Onshape. At the same time the Onshape team hosted an internal design contest open to all…
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Intersect Views (New Custom Feature!)
Intersect Views (New Custom Feature!) https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1755463e12cab51e4a5de51f/w/07865f22b67cc44e473c99a3/e/302fb7288b77057ca30414fb How to add a custom feature to your tool bar:
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Query Explorer feature
Hello FeatureScripters! Learning what FeatureScript's queries can do is often a slow process of reading lots of documentation, and the number of different queries avaiable can be overwhelming during this phase! To help make this easier, we've made a "Query Explorer" custom feature. This custom feature's dialog lets you…
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Custom Feature: Bip Joints - A Hand Bendable Sheet Metal Joint Feature
-Link to feature up front- If you're a producer of sheet metal parts, or design your parts for sheet metal production, there's a strong possibility that your manufacturing pipeline is catered towards hard flat flanges with edges parallel to the bends because that's what the manufacturing process favors. This manufacturing…
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Custom Feature: Query Variable+
-Link to feature up front- Query Variable has been a game changer for more programmatic workflows that save me from needing to develop custom scripts when I can instead pass other existing features through a QV and get results that way. That being said, there are some more powerful querying techniques which haven't yet…
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Custom Feature: Gear Rack
Realized I needed to design two gear racks for a robotics project, and rather than spend 20 minutes doing it manually, I wrote up a custom feature to automate it with some quality of life features (helical/herringbone teeth, fast regeneration, alignment stuff, blah blah blah) Snag it here if you'd like! 100 tooth regen…
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Gear Lab - Cylindrical, Bevel, Face Gears
Yup, it's another custom feature for gears. I had previously used Neil Cooke's excellent 'Spur Gear' feature [Link], but I wanted the ability to generate bevel and face gears as well. I only learned about Bob Tipton's great bevel gear FS after I had nearly finished this. I fear that my "Gear Lab" custom feature is largely…
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I want to help make custom feature icons
I've got a ton of custom features in my toolbar, and I'm wanting to clean up the list a bit by making custom icons for my favorite features. I'd like to have the custom feature owners add it to their own code instead of copying them to add my own. That way if the feature creator updates it, I won't be left behind, and also…