Improvements to Onshape - July 8th, 2019

bradley_sauln · July 2019

Here are some highly sought improvements across the platform to welcome you back from the holiday weekend! Let's get started.

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

MOVE BOUNDARY

Move Boundary can take surfaces and extend them outwards, cut a surface back, or un-trim a surface with the use of various end conditions. You can also extend and cut back a surface simultaneously depending on the end conditions and selections made.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/8fn78algbs

CURVATURE VISUALIZATION IMPROVEMENTS

The Show Curvature dialog now gives you the options to display curvature combs, the minimum radius of an edge, curve or sketch entity, and inflection points along 2D splines in a sketch.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/0lht81oppm

TABLE PERFORMANCE

The performance of large configuration tables has been improved with this update. The most noticeable change is the decrease in time it takes to open a large configuration table as well as scroll through the table. Configuration tables can also be collapsed to help condense larger lists.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/bell5biajf

CUSTOM FEATURE ICONS

Custom features now support icons for users to be able to differentiate between the many powerful features they are taking advantage of in both the toolbar and feature list. In the past having the two features Beams and Belt would show the same “Be” icon making it hard to tell which is which in the toolbar. Custom features will still be ordered alphabetically in the toolbar. Documentation on how to specify a custom feature icon can be found here. The Beams, Belt, and Spur Gear custom features have examples of this implementation today.

COMMAND SEARCH FOR CUSTOM FEATURES

Searching for a custom feature to use will now be easier through the command search. For those with a large collection of custom features, open up the command search and start typing the name of the custom feature you want to utilize. Like any other feature, the command search will show you the closest options with the ability to open that custom feature right away.

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DRAWING VIEW UPDATE

A drawing will now automatically update, if the drawing is out-of-date, after a new view of the same reference is placed. Previously, the drawing would remain out-of-date requiring the user to manually update the drawing so that all views are in sync.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/x7kudvbo9w

GEOMETRIC TOLERANCE STANDARDS IMPROVEMENT

When dragging away from a dimension, the geometric tolerance automatically gains a leader and remains inline with the dimension. For ISO and ANSI standards, this means the geometric tolerance will always be horizontally aligned regardless of the setting in the drawing properties.

PERMISSION CHANGES TO DELETE A WORKSPACE

The ability to delete a document workspace now requires the ‘Delete’ permission instead of just the ‘Edit’ permission for that document. For a full breakdown of sharing permissions and what they impact, take a look at our help documentation.

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ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS

ADMIN ENTERPRISE SIGN-IN CONTROL

Enterprise administrators can now enforce signing in through the established single sign-on (SSO) provider by disabling the Onshape password sign-in. Administrators will see this option when establishing their SSO provider. See our help documentation for more information on configuring integrations with identity providers.

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GLOBAL PERMISSION FOR WORKSPACE DELETION

The ability to delete a workspace (branch) will now be tied to the ‘Permanently delete’ global permission. Deleting documents and workspaces are the two ways to remove information and are now both controlled through this global permission.

CONTROL ACCESS TO CLOUD INTEGRATIONS

Enterprise administrators will be able to control whether or not users can see and use an integration provider, such as Google Drive and Dropbox. Under the company settings, administrators will now see a section for integrations where they decide which integrations are seen by the Enterprise as well as which users and teams have access to the integration.

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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.

sebastian_glanzner · July 2019

Awesome update!
It is really nice that we can use our own icons!

EvanReese · July 2019

Great update! Move Boundary is a huge step forward for surfacing! Also love the ability to search custom features and give them icons. Seeing the min radius of curves is also a big one, though the more important thing to know (for me) is the min radius of a surface or face since it determines an offset or shell failure. All-in-all, really excited about this update.

emagdalenaC2i · July 2019

Custom feature icons Yeahhh

SledDriver · July 2019

Exciting new surface and curvature abilities. Thanks.

But why do these introductory videos have to be SO short? One of those boundary examples is quite unnecessarily fast - at least 12 clicks in under 10 seconds. Is it a race? I see no merit in these videos being so speedy.

Please tell the experts to slow down an bit when they are demonstrating! If I could follow it that fast, I wouldn't need the video in the first place.

And it seems its getting worse when I compare with a couple of years ago. The commands get more powerful, yet the demos are getting faster.

TimRice · July 2019

These videos are a tough balance between speed and depth but if you find they are too fast you can always change the video playback speed! Just click the gear icon and then select Speed:

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john_mcclary · July 2019

Woot! Custom Feature Icons, Custom Feature Search!

SledDriver · July 2019

TimRice said:

These videos are a tough balance between speed and depth but if you find they are too fast you can always change the video playback speed! Just click the gear icon and then select Speed:

Thanks for that Tim. Yes I understand they are not in depth tutorials, but quite honestly, the speed of the first video above is a bit ridiculous.

If the video was just 10 seconds longer it would be so much easier to follow.

MBartlett21 · July 2019

Would it be worth mentioning that custom feature icons can also be used for parameters

(This is from the linked documentation above)

emagdalenaC2i · July 2019

Cool

There is another improvement that worth to mention:
Show part thumbnails when using search

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larry_hawes · July 2019

SledDriver said:

Exciting new surface and curvature abilities. Thanks.

But why do these introductory videos have to be SO short? One of those boundary examples is quite unnecessarily fast - at least 12 clicks in under 10 seconds. Is it a race? I see no merit in these videos being so speedy.

Please tell the experts to slow down an bit when they are demonstrating! If I could follow it that fast, I wouldn't need the video in the first place.

And it seems its getting worse when I compare with a couple of years ago. The commands get more powerful, yet the demos are getting faster.

+1

bradley_sauln · July 2019

@SledDriver @larry_hawes Thanks for the feedback on video speed. We will definitely take this into consideration. These posts are mainly to draw your attention to what's been added as a summary so that you can start to look at and utilize the tools added. It is not meant to be fully educational as we could spend a lot of time covering every single possibility for each of these features. With that said, we tend to come out with more educational information soon after the features are pushed. I would recommend looking at the help documentation as that goes over the steps to use each feature. I will also be hosting a webinar (as we do regularly) to cover the new features and functionality in more detail: https://www.onshape.com/learn/webinars

larry_hawes · July 2019

Thanks Bradley,

Not sure about @SledDriver's opinion but I don't think he or I are asking for a 10 minute tutorial on each new feature but perhaps a little more than one minute and one example.

BTW the help files are very helpful and underutilized by at least myself. They clarified the new 'boundary' feature with an example that was, at least for me, easier to understand.

Thanks again

dangerenok · July 2019

Good day! Will the auto-snap feature be disabled in the Sketch? There are instances when it is very severely hampered

Jake_Rosenfeld · July 2019

@dangerenok

You can hold the shift key to suppress sketch inferencing:
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/inferencing.htm

Can you describe some situations where it is harming your workflow?

john_mcclary · July 2019

@Jake_Rosenfeld ... omg... I've been struggling with that forever... Thank you! Can't tell you how often I thought the inferencing was too sensitive. Now that I know I can suppress it at will, I'm glad it's sensitive, now that I have control

brucebartlett · July 2019

Awesome, thanks again for the improvements.

@MBartlett21 looking forward to seeing all your icons come onboard.

lemon1324 · July 2019

Custom icons! Now I have to figure out how to represent my features in icon-size.

S1mon · July 2019

It's unclear from the post or the documentation page which SSO providers are available. Will Microsoft O365 accounts be supported?

philip_thomas · July 2019

@S1mon - here are the currently supported SSO providers. If your Enterprise would like us to support another identity provider, we are more than happy to talk to your Enterprise admin - please have them reach out to their account representative. The good news is that so far we have been able to accommodate all requests!

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emagdalenaC2i · July 2019

En este enlace podéis ver las Novedades de Onshape en español

https://youtu.be/p3AL8UcvSzs

dangerenok · July 2019

Jake_Rosenfeld said:

@dangerenok

You can hold the shift key to suppress sketch inferencing:
https://cad.onshape.com/help/Content/inferencing.htm

Can you describe some situations where it is harming your workflow?

When you use the tool of "Transformation" binding not disabled

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3dcad · July 2019

@dangerenok
Remember to keep your sketches as simple as possible for best performance. Share things into separate sketches and use 'USE' to snap reference figures between sketches. This way you can hide/show needed sketches and have better control over your model.

3dcad · July 2019

Great update once again - though I would expect to see color by face and color by feature before custom icons..

don_williams909 · July 2019

These are nice updates. Makes me wish that we did more with surfacing at my job...
Bravo...!

don_williams909 · July 2019

3dcad said:

Great update once again - though I would expect to see color by face and color by feature before custom icons..

Yeah, I too wish that we could control color of individual surfaces, but they *are* working on it. I also would like to see the ability to attach an image to a surface as well, and have it move seamlessly into an assembly too. Custom icons are great, but I would also like to see all the associated script files added to the software so that one doesn't have to go hunting for them. I can appreciate at least that one can write code for things if you need to. Not that I'm the least bit capable of doing that...

owen_sparks · July 2019

Loving the custom Icons, great work folks. Now to find the most obnoxious colours to use, just because we can

john_mcclary · July 2019

owen_sparks said:

Loving the custom Icons, great work folks. Now to find the most obnoxious colours to use, just because we can

Hot Pink & Lime Green across the board

ilya_baran · July 2019

@owen_sparks
@john_mcclary
You guys are why the custom icons for features are turned down to greyscale. Go wild with parameter icons though

john_mcclary · July 2019

ilya_baran said:

@owen_sparks
@john_mcclary
You guys are why the custom icons for features are turned down to greyscale. Go wild with parameter icons though

owen_sparks · July 2019

MOTHER NO-FUN-AT-AT-ALL-STERS!!!