Favorite FeatureScripts - User Group Meeting Idea

ilya_baran

I was really impressed with what was shown.  Not just technically, but also the spirit of sharing and learning from each other is really great to see!

richard_doyle

Here's my (rather long) recap of last night's meeting:

We had 7 Onshape users present their favorite FeatureScripts and they were all quite amazing. A vote for the "best" was conducted after the meeting. Thank you to everyone that participated!

A special shoutout to @emagdalenaC2i who stayed up very late to present "Weldment Improvements" and ended up staying for the entire meeting!

Congratulations to @chadstoltzfus for garnering the most votes for his "Cabinet Automation". A close second was @Evan_Reese for "Selection Fillet". Rounding out the top three was @MichaelPascoe and his "Pattern and Sweep".

Other presenters included @john_mcclary with "Sheet Metal", @romeo_graham showed "Project Body" (and gave credit to @MBartlett21), Evan presented "Transform Pattern" by @konstantin_shiriazdanov, and @bruce_williamsfinished off the evening with "Calculate Bounds" (by Bartlett/Rosenfeld).

I lost count at how many times @MBartlett21 was credited for his help with many of the FeatureScript's shown.

This certainly was one of the best Onshape User Group meetings, and we got some good ideas for future meetings. But it's not just the presentations that make the meetings so good, we also get a chance to meet some new people and put names to faces.

If you have ideas for future meetings we want to hear them. I mentioned in passing last night that I'm willing to host 5 meetings per week - I didn't really mean it, but we are open to hosting as many meetings as possible in a variety of formats (lunch and learn, hackathons, roundtables, etc.).

Thanks again everyone, I'll be in touch with all of the presenters (and proxies) and we'll get some prizes out.

Richard

EvanReese

I had a great time! It's always super fun to watch other talented people's workflows because they always do things I'd never think of. Any user groups that do that are going to be tops for me. For anyone interested I presented:

My Features
Selection Fillet
Attractor Pattern
Freeform Spline

Features by @konstantin_shiriazdanov
Transform Pattern
Multi Mate Connector
Measure Value

bruce_williams

This worked out so well. What a bunch of innovative people willing to share. @richard_doyle please let us know how to access the recorded version - this will be a great resource.  Thanks to all that were involved!

MichaelPascoe

Here is a list of some of the features that were presented:
I'm missing a few names and links. Let me know if you have them.

• FS Aluminum Profiles by @emagdalenaC2i
• Project Body by @MBartlett21
• Calculate Bounds by @Jake_Rosenfeld & @MBartlett21
• Cabinet Automation by @chadstoltzfus
• Selection Fillet by @Evan_Reese
• Attractor Pattern by @Evan_Reese
• Freeform Spline by @Evan_Reese
  
• Transform Pattern by @konstantin_shiriazdanov
• Multi Mate Connector by @konstantin_shiriazdanov
• Measure Value by @konstantin_shiriazdanov
  
• Pattern & Sweep by MichaelPascoe
• Intersect Views by MichaelPascoe
• Stock Size by @john_mcclary
• Part Properties by @john_mcclary
• Sheet Metal Bend Table by @john_mcclary

A useful feature tip that will let users easily find your features:

If you include your name in the title of your featurescript tab, users will be able to search your name and find all of your custom features quickly.

EvanReese

Thanks, Michael. Above and beyond as usual.

romeograham

Here's the link to the Project Body FS: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/201b33ee5450cefbca3b34b8/w/95004b1f32bddc1e032970e5/e/03f0c71d4856a8408c7766a0

Thanks!

MichaelPascoe

Thanks, updated.