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Improvements to Onshape - May 28th, 2019
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Welcome to our SECOND release this month! Let's dive into some of the new features.
CAD IMPROVEMENTS
BOM ITEMS
We're excited to share a highly-requested feature for enhancing product bill of materials.Please note: You must be the company admin in order to add or change Items.
CALLOUT AND TABLE IMPROVEMENTS
This release includes numerous improvements for tables and the callout feature for ballooning drawings.Fixed corners are applied to any type of table that you create.
Callouts can also now be created even without a leader. This can be useful for creating pure-text balloons, such as for revision markers or flag notes.
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MORE PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS
Another release means more performance improvements. With this release, you can expect to see improved performance on drawing view creation for assemblies with many repeated instances. You'll also see the material library dialog populate much more quickly than before.VERSIONS AND HISTORY IN DETAILS PANE
Versions and History for a document can now be conveniently viewed from the details pane, without having to open the document.ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS
CUSTOM WORKFLOWS FOR RELEASE MANAGEMENT
You may now configure both the Release and Obsoletion workflows that your company utilizes within Onshape.Configuration of these workflows can be completed by editing and uploading a .json file. For more information, please take a look at the Help Documentation.
ACTIVITY VIEW ON DETAILS PANE
The Activity Feed now shows the information about a document, details of the documents' recent activity, and document share permissions.![Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/yr/d4z2i263686r.png](https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/yr/d4z2i263686r.png)
FEATURESCRIPT IMPROVEMENTS
GROUPING OF FEATURESCRIPT PARAMETERS
FeatureScript parameters can now be grouped to save space in input dialogs. A parameter group can be associated with a driving boolean parameter that hides or shows the group's parameters.![](https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/2z/xr7kywdkxgrq.png)
More information on parameter grouping can be found HERE.
AUTOSUGGEST DEFINITION PARAMETERS
When defining a function's action, FeatureScript will now autofill available definition parameters from the precondition.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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I appreciate all performance and drawings improvements.
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Oh nice, items in BOM.
That approach is... 🤔 unique... not sure how I feel about that workflow yet...
I'm sure it has its merits, but it is limiting by having it only editable by the company admin. Also means the free users lost another power tool
I like how you can set it to be attached to objects.
I was thinking more along the lines of a dumb (insert row) with a manual qty entry.
I suppose in the end it will be better because it will be a list of common objects that don't need data re-entry every project..
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Back to happy John:
Sweet! Tables snap corners, grouping in FS, more callout tool improvements
I just exported a drawing and scaled it like I used to do but it's now exporting 1:1, which is nice.
ETA: Nevermind, I was using the OS dim instead of my standard one. Still need to scale the .dwg to get the part to 1:1
Like I say, it's going to take some playing around and kicking the tires.
Thanks!
- Do it like standard content part numbers, where editing the part number/properties says "changes will apply company/user-wide" and allow the scope to be either a company (if pro user in a company) or individual (if free/edu user).
- Implement it like custom material libraries, where you have the option of uploading your own database.
Given the integrated release management aspect, I don't know if the implementation details would allow individual use without re-doing the backend though.PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Or is it part of a later update?
Also nice improvement to BOM table and balloon leaders that will make it easier. I am hoping to see a drawing display option for the BOM soon, so I can have more columns shown on the assembly but not in the drawing and also option to save custom column order to match company's BOM formats.
I am excited to see work being put into the home screen and looking forward to more developments here for viewing and searching outside and across documents.
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Table anchor will save a lot of frustration making table to position correctly.
Callouts without leaders and different borders, I can now flag revisions with a triangle!
overall, excellent improvements!
It did import but said it failed. I tried a couple times and it now has 2 copies in my account.. (smacks head)
I'll raise a ticket, but to anyone following along, it may say the import failed. Reload the browser a couple times to be sure before re uploading
Once again, great work! This is an exciting update!
although that was totally not obvious 😜
BTW, you might want to do some editing on this FAQ page: https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/plansfaqs.htm?tocpath=_____14
Sorry for my wording above. There is no excuse for it. I was so happy to see the BOM items, until I realized I could not use them or show them to my students. I over-reacted. Sorry.
Regarding working with the 'newly released items'; that won't affect me because I don't have access to 'items.' But thanks anyway.
Link: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b99915c0b73924ca981bc57f
IR for AS/NZS 1100
How can I add a custom property to the items?
And can I add a material property? At the moment my BOM item has a lot of "N/A" in it
I was really expecting all pro users could create a custom release workflow, once developed.
In the title blocks of drawings you have usually three persons involved:
So in my opinion the person who releases the drawing should only be bothered when the release was successfully checked by another person.
Can we expect more release workflows then the current default Onshape Workflow?
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