Improvements to Onshape - September 15th, 2020

Roy_Mutalik

We've already reached the middle of September! I hope you all continue to stay safe and well.

Let's take a look at some of the improvements to Onshape in this release.

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

MATE DETAILS TOOLTIP

A new mate details tooltip is available when mousing-over a mate or mate connector feature in the features list.

 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/m3ule6xusm

SECTION VIEW OF A SECTION VIEW

You may now create a new section view, defined from an existing section view in a drawing.

 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/lk26w7dqbq

AUTOMATICALLY SUPPRESS MATES

A mate will now automatically be suppressed if a part used to define that mate is suppressed. 

 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/quuxsx2u8v

Mate Connectors will also be suppressed automatically if their owner part is suppressed.

PROPERTIES FOR VERSIONS AND WORKSPACES

You may now create custom properties for an entire version or workspace in a document. This is useful for capturing metadata that might apply to all of the tabs, such as a project number or job type.



In order to set up this type of field, you'll need to add the properties you create to a Category which has "Versions" and/or "Workspaces" set as the scope.



For more information on Categories, make sure to visit the help documentation!

FOLLOW MODE SHOWS DIALOGS

When following another Onshape user using 'follow mode' you will now see the dialogs for any sketches or features they edit within a Part Studio.

 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/3ifqqjlywp

3D FIT SPLINE FOR MODEL AND SKETCH EDGES

A new option has been introduced in the 3D Fit Spline feature allowing for the selection of model and sketch edges. It converts these multiple edges into a single curve.

 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/gx3kzttnop

PARASOLID UPDATE

Onshape's underlying kernel, Parasolid, has been updated to V33. This provides you with the latest advancements in geometry, and allows you to export the latest format.

ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS

GLOBAL PERMISSION FOR CREATE DOCUMENTS AND FOLDERS IN MY ONSHAPE

A new Global Permission has been added, allowing administrators to control which users of an Enterprise can create documents at the My Onshape page. If this permission is not allowed, a user will only be able to create documents or folders within folders to which they have the appropriate permissions.

BROWSE PUBLIC DOCUMENTS FROM AN ENTERPRISE

You can now easily browse through public documents, even when signed in to an Enterprise domain. 



Data created in and owned by the Enterprise cannot be made public even if a user has share permissions, so your data is still always secure. Enabling the public filter in an Enterprise simply makes it easier for user to copy data into the Enterprise for use, such as public custom features, vendor or supplier models, or even training materials.



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.

david_bornstein

Awesome update!! Thanks!

xphilip

Lots of cool stuff as usual
Suggestion - in the same way that 'fixed' parts have an icon, it might be helpful if the mate icon had a variant that indicated whether limits were present in the mate. This would help identify why a mechanism would reach a state where it could no longer move and answer the question, 'is this because the mechanism bound or was a mate limit reached?'. It would also identify those mates that might control the extents of motion of a mechanism.

Theo_R

Automatically Suppress Mates -Thank you!!
Follow Mode Show Dialog
Global Permission

All useful thanks

john_mcclary

Whaaa? Suppressing a part.. suppresses the mate??


Great stuff as always, keep it up OS 

Jolly

Automatically suppress mates??  YES PLEASE! 

Also, follow improvements is great! Will certainly use.

EvanReese

mate suppression, show dialogues in follow mode, and the edges in the fit spline are it for me. nice!

matthijs_kok997

I really like the follow mode. Great job!

MBartlett21

The mates and dialogues are good.

What does this mean in the changelog: REST API: Add rollback bar to EvalFeatureScript endpoint

gerhard_swanepoel

Some handy improvements. "Auto" mate suppress, section on section and follow mode is really helpful.

emagdalenaC2i

Great improvements, all very helpful

Automatic mate suppression will simplify a lot assembly configurations
Properties in Workspaces and versions are great, but we can't use it linked in a drawing note (like in the titleblock)

john_mcclary

As of today, you can't tell the difference between an inactive mate and a hidden mate

Seeing how mates are normally hidden, it would be nice if the suppressed mate had a marker that shows it is inactive, without having to mouseover and read the tool tip.

I agree it shouldn't be crossed out like a normal suppress because it is nice knowing which were suppressed manually from a config.
I always hated having to mouseover in SW too when checking the status of a suppressed mate. Now is a good opportunity to do it better the SW again

Maybe you could have just plain text appended to the name rather than a symbol:
Fastened 3 (Inactive)

jakeramsley

MBartlett21 said:

The mates and dialogues are good.

What does this mean in the changelog: REST API: Add rollback bar to EvalFeatureScript endpoint

Hi MBartlett21,

When calling the evaluate FeatureScript endpoint (`/partstudios/d/:did/[wvm]/:wvm/e/:eid/featurescript`) it now accepts a query param to indicate where the rollback bar should be evaluated to, ex. `?rollbackBarIndex=0` will rollback the entire feature list.

HuguesLessardWRI

Mate Detail Tooltip is a great addition, but would be even nicer if it showed the name of components assigned to the mate. For a simple model as the cylinder, you can easily visualize them in the 3D model, but when having an intricate design, with lots of components bunched together, it quickly becomes harder to distinguish which components are mated together.

As @john_mcclary pointed, it would also be great to have a visual cue of which mates has been suppressed together with the suppression of a part or ass'y.

Altogether, these improvements are very welcomed.

BMcGaffey

Great stuff OS team. The mate improvements will be a blessing for building configured assemblies. 

Cheers! 

don_williams909

I'm still going to press for a better Instances Tree structure in assemblies.  My scrolling finger is getting sore from having to scroll so much.  Need to be able to have things in a Windows style tree which can open a group of objects folder with a (+) or close with a (-) or something.  (See your pals in the Creo Dept.) Also, having the Mates in the Instances Tree is still an overwhelming use of valuable real estate.  Can't we have a way to click on a part and open up a Mate Dialogue box for it instead?

TimRice

HuguesLessardWRI said:

Mate Detail Tooltip is a great addition, but would be even nicer if it showed the name of components assigned to the mate. For a simple model as the cylinder, you can easily visualize them in the 3D model, but when having an intricate design, with lots of components bunched together, it quickly becomes harder to distinguish which components are mated together.

 If you long click on a mate in the graphics area it will Isolate just the two parts that are mated. Same result if you right click on the mate and select Isolate: 

john_mcclary

Oh, my bad, it does look like they are identifiable.

Hidden mates are light gray

Inactive mates are light gray + Italicized text + lower half of icon is lighter 
all of that and I still barely noticed the first time

jason_dixon

The ability to sketch on drawings would be handy.  And, of course, displaying simplified external threads on drawings, or at least sketch them. Inserting a symmetry symbol (not the GD&T symmetrical symbol) would be nice, too.

EricGauthier

john_mcclary said:

Oh, my bad, it does look like they are identifiable.

Hidden mates are light gray

Inactive mates are light gray + Italicized text + lower half of icon is lighter 
all of that and I still barely noticed the first time

I am colorblind and I find the difference too thin. A better visual indicator would be more than welcome. I offer to be the community colorblind representant for Onshape!

But great improvements again!

HuguesLessardWRI

TimRice said:

HuguesLessardWRI said:

Mate Detail Tooltip is a great addition, but would be even nicer if it showed the name of components assigned to the mate. For a simple model as the cylinder, you can easily visualize them in the 3D model, but when having an intricate design, with lots of components bunched together, it quickly becomes harder to distinguish which components are mated together.

 If you long click on a mate in the graphics area it will Isolate just the two parts that are mated. Same result if you right click on the mate and select Isolate: 

Thanks Tim, I haven't seen this one and it sure is a great tip, but how much clicks those it take to find that fastened 1 assembled Part A to Part B, rather than just hovering over the mate itself. Just saying that could be great if we could hover every mates and having part names listed at very first glance. Understanding how an assembly has been built would be much easier and less time consuming (same goes for debugging bad mates) especially when you run over a couple of those in a single assembly.

emagdalenaC2i

En este enlace podéis ver las Novedades de Onshape en español:
https://youtu.be/TWEWEm-vGJw

MichaelPascoe

Section view of a section view!!

This is a fantastic update. Thank you Onshape team!

brucebartlett

Nice Update. I really like the auto suppress mates when part or assemblies are suppressed. 

On the tip, firstly I'd like to be able to highlight areas when I mouse over but this may be done deliberately but what I really want to know is, if things are configured or not, this would make it much more helpful.

See here nothing tells me the 58in is configured on the tooltip 



I have to open the edit dialogue

CBowers

emagdalenaC2i said:

Properties in Workspaces and versions are great, but we can't use it linked in a drawing note (like in the titleblock)

I was trying to make this work too. Having all the info for all the title blocks in my document just pull from one place would be super helpful. 

john_mcclary

Each of those drop downs are scanning a different scope of properties. So you can have two properties on different levels with the same name and can clearly tell the difference 

Ben_Tek_Pac

How do I get the word SECTION to appear automatically like in the video? After creating any section or detail view I have to open view properties and type it in. have I missed some setting somewhere? 

john_mcclary

@Ben_Tek_Pac
As far as I know, it always appears automatically.

Are you sure you are not doing a projected view or auxiliary view?

sebastian_glanzner

I only get the A-A. Maybe it is depending on the language you selected in Onshape? 

Ben_Tek_Pac

john_mcclary said:

@Ben_Tek_Pac
As far as I know, it always appears automatically.

Are you sure you are not doing a projected view or auxiliary view?

No it is not a projected view or auxiliary view, as sebastian_glanzner say I only get A-A for sections and only get A with the scale underneath for detail views. 

Ben_Tek_Pac

sebastian_glanzner said:

I only get the A-A. Maybe it is depending on the language you selected in Onshape? 

I found it, if you use ISO it doesn't have it. If you have ANSI it does. It should be on the ISO. really needs the option to have it or not have it.