Mouse Highlighting Boundaries of Objects

famadorian

When you move the mouse around in Onshape, it highlights the boundaries of objects. 

For purposes of making a video to demonstrate an assembly, is it possible to toggle this highlighting, so that it doesn't do that?;)

MichaelPascoe

I have not seen a setting to change this.

alnis

The selection visualization can't be disabled AFAIK. What's your use case? Depending on what you're doing, it might be better to export the model and visualize it using, say Blender. You can get visuals like this relatively easily with its real-time engine (although this render was very much not real-time on my laptop's integrated graphics ):
https://youtu.be/QlSxeBSaDsc

However, be warned that it's not instantly perfectly set up with visuals like these just from the CAD import. Setting this sort of jet engine scene probably would take about 10-15 minutes from import to rendering.

Blender file: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AjfbxG8x44KRhtpOcvyv_gHliZ204w?e=Pm6WAN

john_mcclary

@alnis_smidchens 10-15 min eh? 

Think you could make a tutorial taking from Onshape to a render animation like this? 

alnis

@john_mcclary yes, I think so

10-15 minutes until the animation is rendering and you're just waiting on the computer. Rendering takes longer on this laptop!

MichaelPascoe

I would be interested in seeing that tutorial. Blender is not intuitive for me.

john_mcclary

MichaelPascoe said:

I would be interested in seeing that tutorial. Blender is not intuitive for me.

Same here, gave it a go a few times but never really got the hang of it

Although it was more to do with wanting perfectly modeled parts, not just an artistic eyeball of what could be accurate. Which is why I stuck to CAD instead