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Nice job with exploded views.
Gonna give the linked document thing another try I see lol, hope it sticks this time.
Sketch Inference... now everywhere... hmm.. So much for adding an on the fly mate connector to bypass inferences. Please add a toggle button to turn SI on and off then
Great points about options with Mate Connectors & avoiding imprinting. And those little guys are versatile! I have long missed the symbols in the old Camax CAD. Although the symbols had the advantage of being automatic, Mate Connectors are way more useful. Sketch Inferences are really good improvement.
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I used to just add a mate connector when I didn't want inferences mucking up my current sketch.
@NeilCooke I'm not saying sketch inferences are bad.. they are great when you WANT them, and super annoying when you DON'T. Adding the mate connector or construction plane work arounds don't work anymore. It would be better if we could toggle the ability to wake up entities outside of the current sketch. A check box on the sketch window under show constraints would be perfect.
Great tips! Question - the Triad does not appear if the dialog is kept open with Shift Enter. Is that by intent?
I see the workflow is to accept each step with Enter (closes the dialog) then select another part which displays the Triad.
I have gotten used to Shift Enter; this is a bit different.
Maybe someday I can just type "X". (<== not joke)
Or perhaps Right Ascension and Declination, or Altitude and Azimuth. (<== joke)
This is a very flexible work flow. For View Only Documents: The Named views is in View Cube and Exploded is in the Simple View Only Toolbar. HOWEVER - I do not see 'Display States' available on a view only document. Or am I missing it? The new explode function begets having all three of these functions in the View Only Toolbar.
Yes, that is by intent. The explode triad isn't active when the dialog is open. The Shift+Enter command closes the current dialog and opens another dialog of the same type.
If you want to make successive explode steps with the same set of occurrences, using Enter instead of Shift + Enter would be the way to go. For example: drag along X, Enter, drag along X, Enter, drag along Z, Enter
Thanks for the hard work on this one!!
And great to hear animations are already in the tube..
One thing to add for us struggling in area between printed/pdf drawings and view sharing; we need to get images into external software for assembly instructions. It is ease to take screenshots but updating images is a pain. Named views help but if I could have a link to live snapshot of a named view that would be huge.
I mean that Onshape would automatically create https://cad.onshape.com/documents/4f85357e894365798rehg98e54.png for me and I could copy the link to another software or webpage as link to image. This image link would be always live snapshot of a named view.
It could have it's own share permission or be tied to link sharing.
I can already see so many use cases for such functionality that I wen't ahead and created improvement request for voting:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/13098/live-snapshot-image-link-to-model/
Thanks.
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