New Feature: Freeform Spline

MichaelPascoe

Fillets! Thanks @Evan_Reese, this is a great update.

EvanReese

@nick_papageorge073 Thanks! I've reached out to set up a time to see what you're seeing.
@S1mon I'd be game to do the same with your workflow and chat through what you'd hope to see in this (or a similar) feature.

Alessandra_Diaz

I might be a little late to this, but I would really like to use this feature and see this error when I click on it from here https://www.onshape.com/en/features/custom-features. Is there something else I can do to use the feature? It would be greatly appreciated!

EvanReese

Alessandra_Diaz said:

I might be a little late to this, but I would really like to use this feature and see this error when I click on it from here https://www.onshape.com/en/features/custom-features. Is there something else I can do to use the feature? It would be greatly appreciated!

Oh no! Is this still not working for you? Are you sure it isn't a setting of your enterprise restricting links to public docs?

Jeff_Servaites

@Evan_Reese I have a bit of a nooby question. When I click your installation link to add this feature, I get the below error message. Any idea why I might be having issues. Think this is a rights issue with my Onshape?

Jeff_Servaites

Alessandra_Diaz said:

I might be a little late to this, but I would really like to use this feature and see this error when I click on it from here https://www.onshape.com/en/features/custom-features. Is there something else I can do to use the feature? It would be greatly appreciated!

@Alessandra_Diaz were you able to find a way to install this? I'm getting the same error message as you.

EvanReese

@Jeff_Servaites are you on the Enterprise plan? If you're not sure, look at your URL. If it doesn't say cad.onshape.com, and "cad" is replaced with something, then you are on enterprise.

The feature is public (see image below), but there are enterprise level permissions to allow/disallow linking to documents outside your org. Are you able to add other custom features?

Jeff_Servaites

@Evan_Reese Strangely enough, when I went to click on your link today, it went through for me. Yes, I'm on an enterprise plan. I did have someone reach out to someone at Onshape about the issue, so not sure if something was done behind the scenes or not. Either way, got it working and excited to give it a try. Thanks again for the great tool!

ben_partouch

This is amazing. Thank you for sharing @Evan_Reese !!

eric_pesty

@EvanReese, just tried using this and noticed I am unable to use the "insert point" function
This might be less critical since we now have the "semi official" routing curve feature but thought you might want to know…

EDIT, there are some errors

EvanReese

@eric_pesty are you able to share the document with me? Would love to check it out.

eric_pesty

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/113613#Comment_113613

Sure… https://cad.onshape.com/documents/94bc929c9471c7e325a30d72/w/1e15c68b3c5cb1b52524a671/e/42b9246ce3fc984238032c68

Although there isn't much to it as I just created a new doc to check!

EvanReese

odd. I wonder if something changed with the standard library that breaks this in newer documents. I see the issue here, but the functionality still works in the original Freeform Spline document. I'll dig more later.

eric_pesty

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/113616#Comment_113616

Might be worth submitting a ticket before you spend too much time on it as version updates are generally not supposed to break things!

EvanReese

Okay it's solved now so update to the latest version.

I confirmed it was an update to the FeatureScript Standard that did it, but I want to call out that it wasn't a change that would have broken any deployed features or caused anything to regenerate differently. It just changed how things like Editing Logic and Manipulator Change functions worked (i.e. what the feature does when you change something in the feature UI dialogue). The change they made actually solves many other headaches I've had and makes this feature better too. In the past, if you used a variable to control one of the points, then added or removed a point, it would clear the variable reference and replace it just with the static value, which was quite frustrating. Now they stay put! Thanks dev team!

eric_pesty

Awesome news! Works again, thanks for the quick fix!
And yes there were no issues with existing features, a coworker just ran into the issue when creating a new feature.