Improvements to Onshape - January 25th, 2021

Lindsay_Early

I hope everyone has had a great start to the new year. We are excited to bring you our second release this month. This release brings big improvements to the Loft feature and more. Let’s take a look!

GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

LOFT IMPROVEMENTS

Loft has some big improvements to give you more control and create more predictable shapes.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/5y6tfyhg01

FILTER IN ASSEMBLY

You can filter an Assembly tree with a search at the top.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/ff8chkh1u7

CONFIGURED REFERENCES

When opening a reference using the right-click option to “Open link document” or “Switch to <component name>”, the opened element changes to the same configuration as the reference.

REMOVE FROM MULTIPLE SHARES AT ONCE

You can remove yourself from the share for multiple documents at once. This is especially helpful for EDU environments where teachers may need to remove themselves from multiple student shares.

 

MOBILE IMPROVEMENTS

IOS RENAME EVERYWHERE

You can decide if a variable rename should update all references.

IOS CUSTOM RESOLUTION EXPORT

You can export OBJ, STL, and GLTF files with a custom resolution.

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.

Theo_R

Thank you!

wayne_sauder

FILTER IN ASSEMBLY 

This is great. Does it mean folders are coming to assemblies?

gkuhns

Nice! the tree search will come in handy and the loft improvements are much appreciated.

MichaelPascoe

A lofty update  

Thank you Onshape team! I will definitely be using this.

Effendi_H

Thank you Onshape!

brian_brady

Thank you from us teachers regarding the "multiple remove from share" feature. It could save me literally thousands of clicks in a semester. 

ian_gardiner

Assembly filter! Fantastic. :haserrors especially helpful
Much appreciated

GuidoNADEC

Thanks for the filters in assembly. Great help!

brucebartlett

Great, thank you for the assembly filter, this will be very useful!

Colm_Rev

Another disappointing set of updates.

emagdalenaC2i

Great work
Loft improvements are awesome

CGCAD_Engineer1

Ooooh, can't wait to play with those Loft options

Darkmann

God yes! I'm so happy. Loft was one of the things that irked me the most because of how inconsistently it worked. Thanks guys!

Ethan_Deal_

I would really like to see an improvement on the wrap feature so I can wrap sketches on non cylindrical faces

dave_c

@wayne_sauder Assembly folders are in development

john_mcclary

dave_c said:

@wayne_sauder Assembly folders are in development

NeilCooke

@Colm_Rev what is it you’re waiting for specifically?

john_mcclary

Assembly folders are in development it sounds

Yea, probably the wrong meme, but It was most of images on google, I'm at work can't waste too much time looking at images..

sean_demers

Nice stuff, could really use importing of stpz files.  Being in a rural area (slow internet upload speeds), the upload times alone can take a long time, then we have to wait for it to translate.

EvanReese

The loft update is soooo good! one of my biggest frustrations with surface modeling is solved (pending further testing). Assembly filtering is also just great.

romeograham

Thanks for the updates!

I'm curious if we need Assembly folders now that filters are working - Folders are kind of just a way to focus or filter a list of things (think Folders in Outlook - same as tags in Gmail). I have a feeling that getting good with filters might help with 90% of the use cases that people needed when asking about folders (make the Instance list shorter, show mates only, show fasteners only (wait is that one of the filter types?)) etc.

Happy about the lofts too.

john_mcclary

The difference between filters and folders is grouping and folding (collapse) the tree. So just filtering by type or name is not enough.

For instance, a folder for:
made parts
purchased parts
fasteners
reference parts
(all of which are either: Parts/assemblies/both)

this is the default structure of all of my solidworks assemblies. 
Inside fasteners I sometimes sub divide into fastener type HHCS, FHCS, etc to make it easier to find/modify a bolt type in the entire assembly. When the assembly starts getting very large and you can't simply look at the model and find the m4 flat head screw at a glance

These also help visualize the BOM structure to make sure your BOM is sorted correctly.

Colm_Rev

NeilCooke said:

@Colm_Rev what is it you’re waiting for specifically?

I appreciate here is not really the place but since you ask.
Tools, Options   ........ To be able to set personal preferences
Assembly folders ..... we have been waiting so long for this
Previous view ...... Should be simple to implement.
Multiple insertion ......... If I have 20 holes in a drawing, I have to put in 20 center marks.
Why is "Flat Pattern" not in view orientation when inserting a view in drawings

nick_lumb

The loft enhancements look great

Is there a way to slow down the commentary on these videos, or, could the commentary be a little slower please?

emagdalenaC2i

@nick_lumb You can see the video in Youtube and change the speed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORtT2QkO8sQ

Lindsay_Early

@nick_lumb Thanks for the feedback. Sometimes I get too excited I'll try to slow it down a little next time.

emagdalenaC2i

@Lindsay_Early also remembers that there are many users who do not speak English

So it will be appreciated if you use simple language
Here you can see the 1.125 improvements video in Spanish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAANDIXc2oU

robert_scott_jr_

I viewed/listened to the video at half speed. Got a few laughs outa that! - Scotty

gareth_farrington

The Loft improvement is great, I'm already using it! Saving me so much work making bridging curves!

pmc_pmc

Lindsay_Early said:

@nick_lumb Thanks for the feedback. Sometimes I get too excited I'll try to slow it down a little next time.

I speed up a lot more talking vids than I slow down, and did actually have to slow some of this.
1) that's the problem I'd rather have, so no gripe!
2) no problem hearing; it's more tracking and recognizing which are the significant details happening on screen that I had to go back for.  e.g. "rectangular" vs "full round" was kinda subtle to catch at speed.

Lofts and assembly filtering (esp. for errors) look like big utility wins. Yay Onshape.