Improvements to Onshape - August 20th, 2019

bradley_sauln

Just like that, after another three weeks, here's another release of Onshape with a lot of amazing new features! Let's take a look.

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

CYLINDRICAL WRAP

You can now wrap sketch or surface entities around a cylinder.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/ftnfu9x3dq

ASSEMBLY AND FEATURE PATTERN INSTANCES

Feature and assembly patterns are able to evaluate an instance count of one. This is extremely useful when setting up configurations as no extra features are needed to handle a configuration that requires a pattern instance count of one.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/ab0yd2cvb8

CONFIGURATION TABLE IMPROVEMENTS

Copying and pasting data into a configuration table will now automatically add rows to the configuration table so that all of the data fits. This is improved over having to add each row manually before pasting the data in. To get started with configurations, visit our learning center.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/ds0qs5iyxu

ASSEMBLY DIAGNOSTICS IMPROVEMENTS

We have improved the information Onshape gives you when there is a subassembly error and you are trying to diagnose it from the top-level assembly. This will allow for faster mate resolutions when piecing together all of your sub-assemblies.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/bvkqzflwk2

TAB DELETION WARNING

When you delete a tab in Onshape, you will now be warned if this will cause conflicts elsewhere to help understand the implications of that action before making a decision. Clicking Delete finalizes the deletion while selecting cancel closes the dialog without deleting any tabs. If the tab is able to be deleted without causing any conflicts it will simply be deleted, with no warning.

REORDERING SELECTIONS

Reordering of selections is now available for an expanded list of features where the order of selection matters. Previously you had to redo a selection if an error was made or new entities were introduced. Now you will be able to reorder the selections made within fit spine points, boolean, transform by line, and assembly mates.

HIGHLIGHT BOUNDARY EDGES

A new view tool is now available to toggle highlighting boundary (or laminar) surface edges. This will aid in identifying areas of an imported model which need repair and assist with surfacing workflows. See our help documentation for more on repairing imported models.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/v7bpdumzr4

ATTACH GD&T TO HOLE CALLOUTS

GD&T can now be attached to hole callouts.

PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENTS

DRAWING WATERMARK IMPROVEMENTS

Within the release management settings, the company has the option to hide watermarks on drawings that are marked as not revision managed.

ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS

SPECIFY STARTUP PAGE

Enterprise users can now specify their start page (Analytics, Documents, Activity, or Action Items). Upon logging in to Onshape, this will be the page they see. This is also available for the Android mobile app.

SUPPORT FOR LIST-TYPE WORKFLOW PROPERTIES

Administrators can now include list-type properties when setting up custom workflows for Release Management.

MOBILE IMPROVEMENTS

TASK MANAGEMENT IN COMMENTS

The Android mobile application now supports task assignment. If multiple users are mentioned in a comment there is a drop-down to select which user to assign the task to.

IOS NOTIFICATION CENTER

iOS users now have access to a notification center that lists out all of their notifications. This includes the ability to search and filter notifications.

BOTTOM NAVIGATION IMPROVEMENTS

Both iOS and Android have improved bottom navigation interfaces for a better experience.

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.

larry_hawes

NOICE..........

MBartlett21

brucebartlett

Just logged in and found a new icon in my assy tree, this was a nice surprise, thank you! Looking forward to testing them out especially the instancing update.

brucebartlett

My eyes are very thankful for the little icon to help highlight the failed mates. Much easier to see now when scanning the tree. 

emagdalenaC2i

As always a bunch of nice improvements.

To celebrate this palindrome release, I also want to add a small improvement 

With this release   you can find a small Onshape course in Spanish for free here... https://www.udemy.com/course/conoce-las-ventajas-de-onshape-el-futuro-del-cad-en-la-nube

And here https://www.udemy.com/course/introduccion-al-diseno-en-la-nube-con-onshape another Introduction course to Onshape 

https://youtu.be/SK9iecLWlz8

Please, I would love to have some feedback from the free course. Especially about section 2, in which I talk about the advantages of Onshape over traditional CAD software.

owen_sparks

Great work, thanks Devs
Owen.

brendan_smith_au

My oh my, Onshape team!
Config table change is particularly timely.
Thanks very much!

3dcad

Awesome, just awesome.

It's those little things like expanding configuration table on paste or allow 1 for pattern count that can save hours of work but usually gets ignored by developers - not Onshape

Cylindrical wrap seems nice, I wish I had need for that 

john_mcclary

Very nice quality of life updates!

john_mcclary

Unfortunately now it warns for mate issues even when the part and mate are configured to be suppressed.
These mates probably shouldn't get a red icon because the part the mate is attached to is suppressed not de-referenced.
It is misleading

Josiah_Harthcock

Great job guy's! Wrap feature looks sweet!

NeilCooke

@john_mcclary - please create a support ticket.

partsoven

WRAP! So helpful keep it all coming. Onshape is the FUTURE!

john_mcclary

NeilCooke said:

@john_mcclary - please create a support ticket.

Done

bradley_sauln

Here is an example public document that I used in the videos for configurations and assembly patterns.

A few things to note include how I named my features to make it easy for colleagues to follow my thought process and my use of construction beams to get the appropriate miters in the Part Studio as well as the correct BOM counts in the assembly.

This is a simple example as you can use more logic within the configurations to get really fancy with your design. Let me know if there are any questions.

 https://cad.onshape.com/documents/b61d35832e3f713e7d319e6c/w/a2d8c274586c38142da72b05/e/e453a07217b21495e130d68e

Henk_de_Vlaam

I searched for the Wrap feature but can not find it.

Is Wrap only for Pro's?

lana

@Henk_de_V
You need to be in a part studio updated to the latest version. Try a new document in mean-time

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.

emagdalenaC2i

@Henk_de_V No it should be there for all users... but there is not

The code is in the std document https://cad.onshape.com/documents/12312312345abcabcabcdeff/w/a855e4161c814f2e9ab3698a/e/5e2ac00ef43da299ccb2ff00

I believe that someone missed to ad that icon 

emagdalenaC2i

@lana I have just created a new document but the icon isn't there

emagdalenaC2i

Ahh No, it is there

lana

It is there for me. Might be hard to find - under Transform:

Henk_de_Vlaam

OK, I see it now.

I knew about update time but did realize that this also involves the visibility of the toolbar elements.
So, thank you @lana.

emagdalenaC2i

En este enlace podéis ver las Novedades de Onshape en español

https://youtu.be/4CZ0SC5qIik

john_mcclary

You have to add it to the toolbar, it is off by default it looks.. Probably due to having a custom toolbar before it was added

Jake_Rosenfeld

@john_mcclary

It should definitely be on by default if you have not changed your toolbar.  For custom toolbar, it does not surprise me that it does not add in automatically, that is probably not the best behavior.  If it were to add itself automatically, where would you expect it to add into the custom toolbar?  Assume, for the sake of the thought experiment, that your toolbar is completely shuffled from our original toolbar.

I'm not trying to say it shouldn't add itself, really just looking for feedback here to see if there is somewhere sensible we could slot in new tools, without bothering users who have set up their toolbar is a specific way.

john_mcclary

I was about to draw up a balloon notification like the "Onshape has new updates, click here to learn more"
but have it specific to new buttons on the toolbar. Something like, "New features have been added to Onshape, but they are hidden from your toolbar, click here to customize your toolbar"

But fortunate me, microsoft word has added a feature to their bar that I saw for the first time, so i just screen shot that instead

bruce_williams

Highlight Boundary Edges - fantastic!  Let me quickly repair import to make it a solid.  Been awaiting this for years!  Thank you OS Team!!

MBartlett21

Jake_Rosenfeld said:

@john_mcclary

It should definitely be on by default if you have not changed your toolbar.  For custom toolbar, it does not surprise me that it does not add in automatically, that is probably not the best behavior.  If it were to add itself automatically, where would you expect it to add into the custom toolbar?  Assume, for the sake of the thought experiment, that your toolbar is completely shuffled from our original toolbar.

I'm not trying to say it shouldn't add itself, really just looking for feedback here to see if there is somewhere sensible we could slot in new tools, without bothering users who have set up their toolbar is a specific way.

@Jake_Rosenfeld
I had a custom toolbar, but hadn't edited the group that had the wrap feature in it, and it added itself

owen_sparks

Jake_Rosenfeld said:

If it were to add itself automatically, where would you expect it to add into the custom toolbar?  Assume, for the sake of the thought experiment, that your toolbar is completely shuffled from our original toolbar.

I'd like to suggest that in this situation a new toolbar is created with any new feature icons and a splash screen is shown asking the user if they'd like to show/hide/move them. 

Add in a hyperlink to to the relevant help files, a link to the "what's new" video and PT's personal cell number in case of any issues and we're cookin'

Cheers, Owen S.

dick_van_der_vaart

Great update's as allways, also new pattern without first finishing sheetmetal parts ??
It workt for me on a circular pattern. Fine if you have similar sheetmetalparts with some add-on,s, you can edit them in the flat-pattern view.
The Wrap function came in handy at the right point also.
Thanks, Dick van der Vaart