Improvements to Onshape - October 17th, 2019

cody_armstrong

It's our second update this month and we are very excited for it! This update includes some of our most popular improvement requests. Let's get started.

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

INTERFERENCE DETECTION

You can now analyze Part Studios and assemblies for interferences.

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

DIALOG IMPROVEMENTS

Dialogs will now automatically advance to the next input in cases where only a single item can be selected.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/0c8zqj58q4

SECTION VIEW IMPROVEMENTS IN ONSHAPE DRAWINGS

You will find a new "Show cut geometry only" checkbox option when creating Section views in Onshape Drawings. This allows you to create a section view with only the lines that are on the cut plane.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/vg6d9yheuh

DRAWING DIMENSION IMPROVEMENTS

You will find a new "Angular tolerance precision" option in the Drawing Properties of an Onshape Drawing. In the past, this was set to Tolerance precision and could not be set independently.

ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS

ENTERPRISE CUSTOM FEATURES

Admins or owners of an Enterprise in Onshape can now distribute custom features within their organization automatically. They can also control when newer versions are available to members of the company.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/om7lv8mt4j

LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS

Three new technical briefings have been added to the Onshape Learning Center. The first focuses on "Best Practices for Managing Data in an Onshape Document", the second covers "Understanding and Working with a Document's Historical Data", and the last tech briefing covers "Understanding Release Management in 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.

jonathan_sessa

This is super cool! I cant wait until you guys add mirroring in assemblies 

romeograham

@cody_armstrong
These are great updates. How does Update All External References work with Released parts (Revisions rather than Versions)?

Thanks!

Jason_S

We do not auto-create revisions, but we do pull through if there are newer revisions available.

philip_thomas

@jonathan_sessa - Are you aware that you can mirror assemblies today?

• Create an incontext Part Studio
• 'Mirror' the parts that are mirrored
• Hit the insert/return to assembly (the mirrored parts will be added to the assembly)
• Smile

EricGauthier

Great improvements!
Good job Onshape! (-:

jonathan_sessa

philip_thomas said:

@jonathan_sessa - Are you aware that you can mirror assemblies today?

• Create an incontext Part Studio
• 'Mirror' the parts that are mirrored
• Hit the insert/return to assembly (the mirrored parts will be added to the assembly)
• Smile

I would not consider this "hack" a solution for the following reasons:

1. Parts that have an axis of symmetry are duplicated when it should just make a new reference of the same part (same with imported parts)
2. A whole new part studio is created even when all the parts have an axis of symmetry, only new assembly references should be created. Parts that don't have an axis of symmetry should have a new part created in their respective studios.

However, this is a neat trick and im surprised it isn't more publicly known.

Effendi_H

Awesome...keep it up!

MBartlett21

I really like the new update all button and the pinning of versions.

Could the pinning of versions be added to Custom Features as well?

Konstantin_Sh

Nowadays I had to draw some assembly drawings and I have to say that section views and auxiliary views are a nightmare, using them you turn the drawing into mess of random hatchings and sected parts with no exlusions. Feels like you playing Fruit ninja  So i had to use cut-out views only.

pmd

Interference detection is great but I would like to be able to see places where I assemble a screw or bolt through a part with no hole - currently this is "lost in the noise" of all the other standard-content interference indicators.

In the image below the screw and nut on the left is OK but the one on the right has no hole - difficult to see unless zoom in on each item...

john_mcclary

Very good stuff here! Keep it up Onshape crew!

GWS50

Yes, loving this update! Thank you

Mickey_Hyland

I actually cheered when I thought for a half second that we'd be able to omit bodies from a section view. Not the case, but best updates (for me) in months!

jdbarocio

Is great to have back the possibility to Update All External References, thanks!

Ed_McGuire

Great Update!

emagdalenaC2i

Awesome update!!!
Interference detection and update all external references are great improvements, but I love the improvements in the dialogs
That kind of little things make a great product

Could someone explain this line in the changelog?
"Add Document labels back to Documents page"

brian_brady

emagdalenaC2i said:

Awesome update!!!
Interference detection and update all external references are great improvements, but I love the improvements in the dialogs
That kind of little things make a great product

Could someone explain this line in the changelog?
"Add Document labels back to Documents page"

The last update removed the labels from the Documents page when the branch indicator was added. Previously, any labels that you applied showed up below the document name. It went away but is now back. I am so happy. I use labels extensively to find categorize and find student assignments.

emagdalenaC2i

@brian_brady Ok, thanks

GuidoNADEC

Thanks. Really great updates!!

dan_manoim

I've been waiting for this. Good work

brucebartlett

Great work. Interference checks will be really handy

Song_Yikun

thanks!
we need cloud line!!!

MBartlett21

Is Onshape Assembly Expoded Views and Composite parts being released soon?

New error types in errorstringenum.gen.fs:

Assembly explosion:

/* Failed to compute explode step direction. */
ASSEMBLY_EXPLODE_STEP_DIRECTION_QUERY_FAILED,

/* Failed to resolve explosion. */
ASSEMBLY_EXPLOSION_DOES_NOT_EXIST,

Composite parts:

/* Failed to create composite part. */
CREATE_COMPOSITE_PART_FAILED,
/* Attempted to create a composite part containing another composite part. */
NESTED_COMPOSITE_PARTS,
/* Cannot create a closed composite part that partially overlaps another composite part. */
COMPOSITE_CLOSED_OVERLAP,
/* Cannot create an open composite part that partially overlaps a closed composite part. */
COMPOSITE_OPEN_OVERLAP,
/* Cannot create a closed composite part containing a sketch. */
COMPOSITE_SKETCH,
/* Cannot create a composite part containing a mate connector. */
COMPOSITE_MATE_CONNECTOR,
/* Cannot create a composite part containing a plane. */
COMPOSITE_PLANE,
/* Cannot create a composite part containing a non-modifiable body. */
COMPOSITE_NON_MODIFIABLE,

philip_thomas

@MBartlett21 - Morgan, it's a good thing we like you or there would be severe beatings coming your way!
Yes we are working on a lot of stuff, but you know how it works - you get it when it's ready!!!!!

(I guess it serves us right for publishing our feature source code! )

MBartlett21

@philip_thomas
Sorry

My Dad ( @Ben_Tek_Pac ) wants to know when Weldments are coming as well.
(At the moment, I can only think of it as a use for the points manipulator. Example in my Australian Beams FeatureScript here)

john_mcclary

FYI to those missing the Update all references button in assemblies, right click the toolbar and select "customize" to add the new button.

I was going to ask if Onshape removed the update ref button already.. but looks like there is still a bug with new toolbar items not automatically adding.
I never modified the asm toolbar in the past afik. so not sure why it would still have been off by default.

philip_thomas

@MBartlett21 - Morgan, please feel free to tell your Dad that 'Yes, Onshape will have weldments as soon as they are ready!'
(sorry - no timeframe, but code is being written today )

NeilCooke

@MBartlett21 - stop spoiling the surprise for everyone!

ilya_baran

@MBartlett21
Don't let Philip and Neil scare you, you didn't do anything wrong.  The fact that we're working on a bunch of highly-requested functionality is no secret and our standard library is publicly available, so it's fine to look and ask.  At the same time, our response will continue to be "it's done when it's done."

philip_thomas

@MBartlett21 - Morgan, don't let @ilya_baran lull you into a false sense of security, here is a picture of Neil when he read your post!


(Morgan, you know we are just having fun with you - we love all that you do for the community and if you find something salacious, you are welcome to post it ) - Philip