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DRAWING VIEWS & HIGHLIGHTING DRAWING ELEMENTS
Luke_Edwards
Member Posts: 10 PRO
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As we all know - there is still a significant amount OnShape has to do in order to improve its paper-spacing capabilities to a more professional standard - one massively important thing for me is layering and layer thicknesses. The lack on layering induces a lack of clarity and cleanliness on any drawings that are done, and ultimately makes something simple, just that 'bit' harder to read and understand.
I am gradually getting more and more frustrated with the way Onshape has tried to standardise drawing. Drawing is all about conveying information to a user and there is no simple way to 'convey' a drawing as every annotation may need altering just that little 'bit' in order to get a very important piece of information across - You cannot seem to do this in OnShape, simple things like graying out some of the structure on a particular view to provide clarity to a section, a hole or a marking or to point out a component in an assembly.
There are other simple things like alignment of titles, you cannot create construction lines to nicely align titles.
What else?
- Individual hatching capability - why can I not hatch a particular area of something myself? I may need to do this to denote its use, yet I cannot.
- Change individual leader pointers. AW ISO standards hatching should be correctly notated with a 'blob' to denote not just one or two items, but instead an entire area (a hatch), yet, you cannot do that.
- Dimensions not being able to sit on 'top' of the dim line.
- Change in line-type. Why can we not change a solid line to a dashed line or a dotted line from a view?
- Hidden lines. When I chose to expose lines I want to be able to choose exactly which lines I want to expose. Right now it's either all or nothing which is horrific and presents a nightmare when trying to annotate very complex components.
- Change colour of lines, again, you cannot do this.
- You cannot properly draw in paper space. You can sketch but you cannot type 50mm and get a 50mm line so it's useless for designing a professional template in.
- You cannot grey out lines to put the focus on a particular part of the view & or assembly.
These are all extremely big parts of professional draughtsmanship and it is not there.
I am gradually getting more and more frustrated with the way Onshape has tried to standardise drawing. Drawing is all about conveying information to a user and there is no simple way to 'convey' a drawing as every annotation may need altering just that little 'bit' in order to get a very important piece of information across - You cannot seem to do this in OnShape, simple things like graying out some of the structure on a particular view to provide clarity to a section, a hole or a marking or to point out a component in an assembly.
There are other simple things like alignment of titles, you cannot create construction lines to nicely align titles.
What else?
- Individual hatching capability - why can I not hatch a particular area of something myself? I may need to do this to denote its use, yet I cannot.
- Change individual leader pointers. AW ISO standards hatching should be correctly notated with a 'blob' to denote not just one or two items, but instead an entire area (a hatch), yet, you cannot do that.
- Dimensions not being able to sit on 'top' of the dim line.
- Change in line-type. Why can we not change a solid line to a dashed line or a dotted line from a view?
- Hidden lines. When I chose to expose lines I want to be able to choose exactly which lines I want to expose. Right now it's either all or nothing which is horrific and presents a nightmare when trying to annotate very complex components.
- Change colour of lines, again, you cannot do this.
- You cannot properly draw in paper space. You can sketch but you cannot type 50mm and get a 50mm line so it's useless for designing a professional template in.
- You cannot grey out lines to put the focus on a particular part of the view & or assembly.
These are all extremely big parts of professional draughtsmanship and it is not there.
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