Improvements to Onshape - August 6, 2015

imagineered

@traveler_hauptman  thanks mate.... one of these providing FEA????

lougallo

andrew_troup said:

Yes, Lou, please reinstate the improvement request.
 thanks

It will show up as me as the suggester.  Can you @andrew_troup re-submit it as Constraint Manager and list the details and I will attach that to our constraint project.

ivan_9

Hi Lou, thanks for the great improvements! You guys keep on impressing big time. Just one question, when inserting a 'derived part', I assume that the position of the part is the same as in the original part studio (x, y, z). It would be very helpful if part of the process included selecting reference points in order to place the derived part nicely - just like what's being used for mate connectors.

billy2

ivan-I think it would be more than nice to position a derived part after insertion. I would say derived parts are useless until they have a transformation associated with them. OS can add 'mate connector' to their transformations dialog box. I want both translations & rotations to occur in one 'mate connector' transform definition. 



Using multiple transform methods and keying in rotation angles and translation values isn't acceptable.

In fact, every derived (whatever) will have a transformation associated with it, so just put it in the derived method. The transformation should always be part of the derived method.

I was excited about the "derived" enhancement thinking I could now create a layout in OS using a part studio. 

andrew_troup

billy
Eloquently put. 
+1 for every paragraph

And I would make one of your points even more explicit, for the avoidance of doubt: the reason  "multiple transform methods and keying in rotation angles and translation values" isn't acceptable is not solely because it's laborious:

it's because the result is essentially dead, where it frequently needs to be very much alive
(in the sense of, adapting to changes to model dimensions etc)

3dcad

I would like to see derived parts so that you create mate connectors for main part and derived, then when you select the part to 'import' it would come in moving with mouse pointer until you select mate connector to attach.

Hole tool (and maybe extrude too) should have option to automatically create mate connector which would speed up deriving dowels, bolts, washers and other fasteners.

andrew_troup

@3dcad
I think I agree.
It will take a number of thought experiments to be sure (as much as one ever can be about the future)... but I certainly see a strong case for the mate connector paradigm to be greatly extended and enhanced.

3dcad

@andrew_troup
Isn't it easy to be on this side of development, just throw ideas in and let someone else decide if they are useful or not 

fastwayjim

This is a great set of updates. Hole feature, materials, and mate limits?!?!?! Frickin awesome...