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Improvements to Onshape - October 1st, 2019
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It's the first of October, exactly 20 days have passed since our last update and we are ready for another! This update focuses on usability and performance improvements in many different areas of Onshape. Let's dig in.
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CAD IMPROVEMENTS
HOLE TABLE IMPROVEMENTS
We announced the addition of Hole Tables in our last release. In this update, we've made multiple improvements that make them easier to use.GEOMETRIC TOLERANCE SYMBOL IMPROVEMENTS
You can now attach Geometric Tolerance Symbols to dimension extension lines in Onshape Drawings.SHEET METAL IMPROVEMENTS
Improvements have been made to Sheet Metal in Onshape to better handle multi-edge bends in a single feature. This makes Sheet Metal more robust in situations where you have cuts across the bend.SEARCH RESULT IMPROVEMENTS
Part number, revision, and state now appear below the name when searching in Onshape. This makes it easy to see important information about the thing you are searching for without needing to open it. You'll also notice a new icon![](https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/wk/6uyalr9c5k52.png)
DOCUMENTS PAGE IMPROVEMENTS
You will now see the most recently edited branch when viewing the Documents list from the Documents page.![Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/ao/0jydhd5ftkhe.png](https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/ao/0jydhd5ftkhe.png)
"SWITCH TO" CONTEXT MENU IMPROVEMENTS
When right-clicking a part in an assembly and using the "Switch to" command, you will now see icons to better delineate between the Part Studio and Assembly.![](https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/uf/9nm45hnyngqv.png)
glTF EXPORT OPTION
You can now export parts and assemblies to the glTF file format.![Image: https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/kc/yeshayj636mz.png](https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/kc/yeshayj636mz.png)
LARGE ASSEMBLY PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS
Changes have been made to improve large assembly performance in several areas. This includes changes that allow Onshape to open bigger assemblies, improve selection/highlighting performance, and decrease load time.ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS
DASHBOARD PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENTS
Performance improvements have been made to reduce load time of many of the Analytics Dashboards in Onshape Enterprise.LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS
"INTRO TO CAD" COURSE
You will find a new "Intro to CAD" pathway in the Learning Center. This pathway is composed of four new courses, geared to new CAD users and focuses on understanding how to model in a 3D parametric feature-based CAD system, using Onshape.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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Thanks for the switch to icons! Now I don't have to label my part studios with a "parts" prefix/suffix
I wasn't even aware you could select the bend radius like that when importing.. I always deleted the fillet's face and did it from square edges lol..
Thanks for the lesson, and the bug fix I wasn't even aware of
Eduardo Magdalena C2i Change 2 improve ☑ ¿Por qué no organizamos una reunión online?
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HWM-Water Ltd
Website: ovyl.io
In the future can we include tag names in our searches? Currently you can click on a tag name and see everything with that tag, but cannot find which documents have the same two or more tags associated with them. For me that might be Assignment 1 and On-time and Tuesday Class.
Brian
...and there's even a little icon that lets you know if it's the latest Release AND the Revision:
Nice work folks.
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
What is this in the changelog?
FeatureScript: Ability to name faces and have it export with Parasolid model
What has it changed in FeatureScript?
IR for AS/NZS 1100
HWM-Water Ltd
which will add a name to a face and this name will be preserved with Parasolid export.
Neil is actually a bit incorrect in that it was the setting of properties that was updated and the Parasolid export that didn't change. We try to preserve properties on export, even ones that aren't possible to create in Onshape and should be true if you upload some foreign data and export it to Parasolid.
Neil is correct that it is work done to allow for third-party apps to leverage named faces for associativity.
- create a FS to add information on some faces
- export to Parasolid
- Import in SolidWorks
- Run a macro in SolidWorks and read that information
Am I right?Eduardo Magdalena C2i Change 2 improve ☑ ¿Por qué no organizamos una reunión online?
Partner de PTC - Onshape Averigua a quién conocemos en común
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
I´m glad to see that there are many similar things in our own Onshape course in Spanish. But, of course, you have a better team of illustrators ;-)
Eduardo Magdalena C2i Change 2 improve ☑ ¿Por qué no organizamos una reunión online?
Partner de PTC - Onshape Averigua a quién conocemos en común
"Solved thanks"
Eduardo Magdalena C2i Change 2 improve ☑ ¿Por qué no organizamos una reunión online?
Partner de PTC - Onshape Averigua a quién conocemos en común
hohoho Merry Christmas!
gltf is a standard for transferring the display list from onshape to webgl (the browser's graphics engine). There really is no need to have this translation unless you want to spin your OS models on your website. It's a developers thing.
This weekend, I'll be updating my website.
HWM-Water Ltd
It is very hard to pick colors that are universally accessible to people with different forms of colorblindness. Differentiating things based on shape when possible adheres much better to modern accessibility guidelines.
becides, the clean/grey look is the main theme on Onshape since the beginning. Until they add custom themes/icon themes, there is no chance they will sprinkle color into the UI randomly