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Improvements to Onshape - October 7th, 2020
Roy_Mutalik
Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 37 
We are excited to share some highly requested features in this release, so I won't take up another moment of your time here. Let's just jump straight in.
This feature exists in all mates that currently support an "Offset" value, including Fastened, Revolute, Slider, Planar, and Pin-Slot mate types.
The option for "Show sketches" will, by default, show ALL sketches that have been inserted into the assembly. However, you may control the visibility of sketches independently by utilizing Assembly Display states.
This will make it easier to capture the appropriate, machinable result, even on complex filleted edges.
The glTF format is the growing standard for graphical data interchange between systems. With this release, glTF export has been enhanced to include Onshape specific Deterministic Part IDs and Assembly Occurrence IDs: data required for associativity and metadata transfer.
The Certified Onshape Professional exam provides designer and engineers with the opportunity to gain accreditation and document their proficiency in the Onshape platform.
For more information, you can read the full announcement here.
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.
CAD IMPROVEMENTS
EXPLODE LINES
You may now automatically create explode lines for your exploded views.ADD ROTATION TO MATES
You may now specify an angle of rotation directly when defining a mate. This simplifies your workflow, which previously required defining the mate and then editing the mate connector to apply the rotation.SHOW ASSEMBLY SKETCHES ON DRAWINGS
You may now show sketches in assembly drawing views. Sketches must have been explicitly inserted into the assembly for them to be shown.The option for "Show sketches" will, by default, show ALL sketches that have been inserted into the assembly. However, you may control the visibility of sketches independently by utilizing Assembly Display states.
NEW FILLET OVERFLOW OPTION
A new option has been introduced in the fillet feature, allowing you to control the edge overflow.This will make it easier to capture the appropriate, machinable result, even on complex filleted edges.
GROUPING OF CALLOUTS
Callouts can now be easily be grouped with other callouts. Simply drag and drop the callout to group it.DIMENSION SPLINE HANDLE
You may now directly dimension and constrain the spline handle of a spline.OVERRIDDEN DIMENSIONS ON PDF EXPORT
Dimensions on an Onshape drawing that have been manually overridden automatically receive an underline. A new option allows you to hide these underlines when exporting the drawing to a PDF.IMPROVED glTF EXPORT
The glTF format is the growing standard for graphical data interchange between systems. With this release, glTF export has been enhanced to include Onshape specific Deterministic Part IDs and Assembly Occurrence IDs: data required for associativity and metadata transfer.
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}LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS
ANNOUNCING: THE ONSHAPE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM
Onshape is pleased to announce the launch of a professional certification program for designers and engineers who use the Onshape platform.The Certified Onshape Professional exam provides designer and engineers with the opportunity to gain accreditation and document their proficiency in the Onshape platform.
For more information, you can read the full announcement here.
CATEGORIES TECH BRIEFING
A new technical briefing on Getting Started with Categories has been published to the Learning Center. This document discusses what an Onshape Category is, and how to create your own to efficiently manage the scope of your Onshape Properties.PARAMETRIC AND CONFIGURATION VARIABLES TECH BRIEFING
Learn the similarities and differences between using parametric variables and configuration variables in this new tech briefing: Parametric Variables vs Configuration VariablesPlease 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.
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Can someone explain this improvement listed in the Changelog:
"Support category and configuration as parameters to part number generator uniqueness!"
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Your exploded line edits look very clean and simple.
Yes! Finally, Assembly Sketches is drawings!
I would love to see the Onshape PN generation with category / configuration as tabulated values (and I have immediate use for the solution as soon as it is available). Any partner apps that currently take advantage of this feature?
Effendi H.
Thanks
Great work Onshape Development team!
(Now, can we have a folder structure in Assemblies, please?)
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After the latest update of Onshape yesterday we noticed an issue related to this functionality that could lead to correctness issues in Onshape drawings. This is something that is not acceptable and as the release manager I decided it is better to temporarily disable this functionality while we fix the issue. I will update when the functionality has been re-enabled.We will be reaching out to users who may have been affected by this.
Is it really possible to define the value of a variable off of a dimension? I haven't found that you can use dimensions like this.
ADD ROTATION TO MATES is a massive improvement. Thanks