Improvements to Onshape - July 15th, 2020

cody_armstrong

 It's July already, and we are here again with another update! This update includes a highly-requested new feature as well as several improvements in different areas of Onshape. Let's get started.

CATEGORIES

You can now manage your properties with Categories in Onshape Professional and Enterprise. This new functionality allows you to efficiently display properties depending on the category they belong to.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/5oej4iz8mr

FLIP NORMAL WHEN CREATING PLANES

You can now flip the normal direction of a construction plane.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/nodt2gzz82

DRAFT IMPROVEMENTS

Implied and Explicit Mate Connectors can now be used as the reference for a Neutral plane when creating draft.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/phqsh52kiz

APPEARANCE IMPROVEMENTS

You can now assign appearances to features in a Part Studio. This simplifies the process of applying appearances and allows them to update parametrically with the features.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/oavkucf851

MEASURE IMPROVEMENTS

You will see new icons for Measure and Mass Properties at all times in the bottom right corner of a Part Studio or Assembly. 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/6dk548hsk6

ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS

You will find two new permissions dashboards when viewing analytics in Onshape Enterprise. These were created to give you better insight into how data is being shared in your company.



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.

bo_pollett

Flip Normal on planes has been a long time coming. Thank you! Thank you! 

bruce_williams

very nice group of improvements!  All of them are very useful right away.

3dcad

Very nice. Appearance by feature will be very much used!

john_mcclary

Categories looks promising I was hoping to be able to filter all those unused fields
Feature Color: excellent!
Flip Plane Normal: sweet! this will come in handy when tracing reference images

I like how the new measure window is a pop-out like the mass properties window.
This will be nice, I used to need to select a solid body to open the mass properties tool, when checking a bunch of individual masses. It's nice to be able to open it up before hand in those situations.

Ben_Tek_Pac

Flip normal on planes, that is awesome, going to save me some headaches 
Categories will be great.
new measure improvements is excellent, just need to be able to get the weight property to populate on drawings, this is a very tedious task at the moment!

john_mcclary

Ben_Tek_Pac said:

 just need to be able to get the weight property to populate on drawings, this is a very tedious task at the moment!

agreed, əven with featurescript

brucebartlett

Nice work! looking forward to trying these new features. 

rafael_gomez_sjoberg

Great new features, especially the feature color and the flip plane normal. Thank you!!!

danny_payne

Great features. I really like how new improvements are always coming out and are so improving the program. Thank you.

emagdalenaC2i

Categories are great!!
Nice work

muhammed_bilgi

Thank you! Please add next a mirroring feature in assemblys. 

Ivan_Deetlefs

I've been picking up bugs since new release. Most concerning, however, is that my autofields aren't updating. I have triple checked that reference data is correct and selected correctly when referenced. Anyone had this same problem?

john_mcclary

What do you mean autofields?

don_williams909

Nice updates!  Very useful. 
**But** - still waiting to be able to have a folder structure in assemblies for grouping parts and shortening the tree. 
Would still like to see the Mate Features in assemblies removed from the Instances section and moved to a pop-up or pull down menu.
Honestly folks, I'm getting arthritis in my scrolling finger!

Theo_R

"Categories looks promising"
Agreed. I look forward to seeing how these can tie into other aspects of filters and PN.

emagdalenaC2i

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mowoodsiii

I flippin' love Onshape Y'all's updates are always so immediately helpful (sometimes I didn't even know I wanted these features!)

alex_pitt472

Nice improvements! Thank you! 

Cache_River_Mill

mowoodsiii said:

I flippin' love Onshape Y'all's updates are always so immediately helpful (sometimes I didn't even know I wanted these features!)

Thank you Onshape team! These are great!

ladislav_pochop

Nice, thank you very appreciate possibility to assign appearances to features 👍

brucebartlett

Love the measurement update. The drag out feature is great for screenshots

kevin_elliott

Love the add appearance to features, but I would also like to be able to Add Appearance to a face/part in an assembly with the appearance only applying to that assembly. In this way I can have standard parts colour coded within the assembly for their different uses (ports, etc).

brucebartlett

kevin_elliott said:

Love the add appearance to features, but I would also like to be able to Add Appearance to a face/part in an assembly with the appearance only applying to that assembly. In this way I can have standard parts colour coded within the assembly for their different uses (ports, etc).

Yes, I also want this. That way I can simulate painting of an assembly and not have to drive it from the part studio.

Theo_R

brucebartlett said:

kevin_elliott said:

Love the add appearance to features, but I would also like to be able to Add Appearance to a face/part in an assembly with the appearance only applying to that assembly. In this way I can have standard parts colour coded within the assembly for their different uses (ports, etc).

Yes, I also want this. That way I can simulate painting of an assembly and not have to drive it from the part studio.

This would be helpful to me for preparing renderings. I would use assembly appearance settings for export to .gltf for rendering without the tedious process of edit in context or open linked document.

brucebartlett

Theo_R said:

brucebartlett said:

kevin_elliott said:

Love the add appearance to features, but I would also like to be able to Add Appearance to a face/part in an assembly with the appearance only applying to that assembly. In this way I can have standard parts colour coded within the assembly for their different uses (ports, etc).

Yes, I also want this. That way I can simulate painting of an assembly and not have to drive it from the part studio.

This would be helpful to me for preparing renderings. I would use assembly appearance settings for export to .gltf for rendering without the tedious process of edit in context or open linked document.

Theo, you can use the BOM to change appearance, just add the appearance column click, this may help you. This works great until your parts have been released or changed to rev, then I 'd like to be overridden at the assembly level. 

fnxf

muhammed_bilgi said:

Thank you! Please add next a mirroring feature in assemblys. 

Do you need the parts actually mirrored, or just inserted a second time? I have used linear pattern when I needed an assembly (or parts) a second time.

john_mcclary

A mirror is different than a pattern. It implies the part is also opposite in shape. This is something that has been requested in assemblies for a while. But comming up with a clever way to do it in Onshape would be interesting to see

NeilCooke

john_mcclary said:

A mirror is different than a pattern. It implies the part is also opposite in shape. This is something that has been requested in assemblies for a while. But comming up with a clever way to do it in Onshape would be interesting to see

Not always. They may be the same parts assembled on the other side but rotated 180 degrees. SolidWorks does a good job but still falls short in many ways. 

fnxf

NeilCooke said:

john_mcclary said:

A mirror is different than a pattern. It implies the part is also opposite in shape. This is something that has been requested in assemblies for a while. But comming up with a clever way to do it in Onshape would be interesting to see

Not always. They may be the same parts assembled on the other side but rotated 180 degrees. SolidWorks does a good job but still falls short in many ways. 

I've just had this case recently. and used assembly circular pattern to much success. If I really need mirrored parts I make them in the part studio.

john_mcclary

fnxf said:

NeilCooke said:

john_mcclary said:

A mirror is different than a pattern. It implies the part is also opposite in shape. This is something that has been requested in assemblies for a while. But comming up with a clever way to do it in Onshape would be interesting to see

Not always. They may be the same parts assembled on the other side but rotated 180 degrees. SolidWorks does a good job but still falls short in many ways. 

I've just had this case recently. and used assembly circular pattern to much success. If I really need mirrored parts I make them in the part studio.

Typically I would also use a circular patter for this, mostly because of the lack of mirror, and lack of mirror options (as @NeilCooke pointed out) SW gives you 4 options per part in your mirror. But that usually ends up as a over complicated mess. Just recently I tried to mirror in assembly in SW and it was still missing a rotation/mirror option for 2 of the 8 parts. So it was a half and half solution there as well. Hopefully Onshape makes this a clean and simple solution.

But I don't see it happening until you can have two way communication with an assembly without using in-context. Right now we only have a one way street.