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Improvements to Onshape - March 1st, 2019
Roy_Mutalik
Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 37 
Our third release of 2019 comes with some great usability improvements! We hope you enjoy these!
RE-ORDER OF SELECTIONS IN LOFT, FILL, AND OTHER FEATURES
Rather than having to delete and re-select the items, you can now re-order selections in many order-dependent features.
For more information, check out the documentation.
Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments below. For a detailed list of all the changes in this update, please see the changelog.
Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new Documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in Documents created before the date of this update.
CAD IMPROVEMENTS
RE-ORDER OF SELECTIONS IN LOFT, FILL, AND OTHER FEATURES
Rather than having to delete and re-select the items, you can now re-order selections in many order-dependent features.FILTERING WITH FEATURE FOLDERS
The Feature List now has a discoverable button to allow the filtering of the features in your Part Studio.USING IMPLICIT MATE CONNECTORS AS FEATURE REFERENCES
There are a number of features in Onshape that accept Mate Connectors as a reference to define them. However, these Mate Connectors had to be explicitly created before they could be used. Onshape now supports the creation of Implicit Mate Connectors in these features, enabled by simply toggling a button. Take a look at how this might improve your feature workflow in the video below.ORDINATE DIMENSIONS IMPROVEMENTS
In an Ordinate Dimension stack, jogs will automatically be created to avoid overlapping other dimensions if additional text is added, or the dimension text resized. If a jog is accidentally created on an Ordinate Dimension, simply drag-and-drop the dimension to remove the jog.MEASURE IMPROVEMENTS
Measuring the distance to or from the Origin is now as simple as selecting your reference, and picking the Origin. The measurement shows in the bottom right corner.
Selecting any number of faces, even in an assembly, now shows the total area of all faces selected in the bottom right corner.
PERFORMANCE: THUMBNAILS, BROKEN-OUT SECTION, CROP, AND SECTION DEPTH VIEWS
Performance is looked at with every Onshape release. With this update, there were two performance improvements worth highlighting. First, Thumbnail caching has been improved. You will immediately experience faster performance in generating thumbnails, especially for linked documents with many tabs. Additionally, Onshape has improved view creation for Crop, Broken-out Section, and Section Depth views. This will be most noticeable on large assemblies and complex views.PER-USER CONFIGURATIONS
With this release, we've added functionality to make collaborating and sharing configured Part Studios and Assemblies even more convenient.ADDITIONAL PEM® FASTENERS
PennEnginering PEM® Flush-head (FH™) Studs and Pins have been added to to the Hole feature, and Onshape Standard content.SEARCHING ACROSS DROPBOX AND GOOGLE DRIVE
Two releases ago, we introduced the capability to integrate with Google Drive and Dropbox. We now enable searching in these connected services. Additionally, Onshape now remembers the last location that a file was imported from or exported to within a connected cloud service.JSON IMPORT IN FEATURESCRIPT
With this release, FeatureScript now accepts JSON imports and reference parameter selections. JSON is a lightweight data type that can structure complex datasets. This is an easy way for your Custom Features to consume output data from other tools.For more information, check out the documentation.
PROFESSIONAL FEATURES
RELEASE COMMENTS NOTIFY USERS INVOLVED
Comments created by anyone on a pending Release Candidate now notify all those involved in the process (the creator of the Release Candidate, the Approver, and any Observers).Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments below. For a detailed list of all the changes in this update, please see the changelog.
Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new Documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in Documents created before the date of this update.
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Or if you prefer, place one hole and use Circular Pattern.
And the thanks for adding the remember the last location in Google drive and Dropbox! It was doing my head in navigating for each save.
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
Loving the implicit mate connectors, that should clean up the tree a lot! Can't tell you how many times I had to exit a command to go back and create a sketch for revolve or a hole. This is huge!
Can't wait to test out ordinate dim improvements, and re-ordering of selections.
That was a lot of good stuff
Great updates. I'm especially impressed with the implicit mate connector functionality, that is going to get used daily, outstanding.
Thanks all, Owen S.
Also, hello @Roy_Mutalik 🕵️
May I ask who you are and what you do at Onshape?
HWM-Water Ltd
Owen.
HWM-Water Ltd
Hi there, @owen_sparks (and the rest of the wonderful Onshape community)
I'm an engineer on the Strategic/Enterprise team here. Of course, I also work closely with the rest of the crew you already know. Previously, I spent 6+ years working in "Old CAD" before seeing the light and joining the team at Onshape. I'm looking forward to "meeting", helping, and sharing more great Onshape content with each of you here on the forums and beyond.
Youghee, https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/5448/hole-feature-integrate-placement-facility#latest has been completed.
What an elegant way to locate the holes ‘on the fly’ without the need of sketching points first. It is even possible now to drill the holes slanting. However, then arises an undercut. The workaround is moving the Mate Connector along the Z-axis, but that offset can conflict with the design intent, e.g. when the 'drill angle' changes the value can be too small (or too big because the hole cuts unexpected elements then). Is there in this case a possibility to generate the hole in both sides without translation of the Z-axis?
Do you mean extend the hole backwards?
IR for AS/NZS 1100
Implicit Mate Connectors for the win x 2
Continuez votre beau travail!
Onshape adds once again features expected from users as well as features that exceed expectations! And as always, useful features that work and all without having to cross your fingers when implementing the update!
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
With this new functionality (also new as sketch reference?) it would be nice to rotate a MC along two (or even 3?) axis. Can this already be done in a way or do we need an IR?
Then a sketch plane and tilted hole can be placed under every angle relative to the origin entity.
In this picture the extra 'Rotation about X' should do the job.
Do you mean resulting in a MC at an undefined location? I this wise? One wants to have specific distances and angles to keep design intent, isn't it?
That's what I mean.