Onshape User Group meeting tonight

richard_doyle

There is still time to register for tonight's meeting featuring sessions from Onshape users @sam_holland and @chadstoltzfus.

More info here - https://www.onshape.com/en/user-group-network/professional2

Richard

EvanReese

Dang! Looks like a good lineup. I'd go, but I promised my 5-year old we could go bird watching (doesn't that sound like a made-up excuse?). I'm looking forward to the recording though.

bruce_williams

that was an amazing couple of presentations!  @richard_doyle
please send me recorded copy

MichaelPascoe

That was very instructive. Thanks @sam_holland, @chadstoltzfus & @richard_doyle !

My favorite tricks from the meeting:

• For an efficient top down modeling approach, derive sketches into part studios from a master studio.
• More configurable variables, place an array inside a variable. Also, place if then statements inside variables.

Using an array inside a variable

Using if then statements inside a variable or dimension

chadstoltzfus

Another interesting part about conditional statements I forgot to mention is you can do a chain of conditional statements the same way you can with FeatureScript if/else statements. 

If we wanted this

if(condition1)<br>{<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;doThis1<br>}
else if(condition2)
{
     doThis2
}
else
{
     doThis3
}

it would look like condition1 ? doThis1 : condition2 ? doThis2 : doThis3

MichaelPascoe

Ah, I was wondering how to do that.

I had to place the second statement in parenthesis for it to work. Like this:  (count == 0? 2 : (count == 4? 10 : 1))

EvanReese

definitely need to hit up the recording. @richard_doyle do you know if/when it'll be posted?

richard_doyle

It's ready, but I still don't have a great place to post the recordings. I can share them via Google Drive. Please send me an email (rdoyle@ptc.com) with the email address you would like to use to receive the share notification.

Richard

EvanReese

richard_doyle said:

It's ready, but I still don't have a great place to post the recordings. I can share them via Google Drive. Please send me an email (rdoyle@ptc.com) with the email address you would like to use to receive the share notification.

Richard

Thanks again, Richard, for sending the recording to me. It was really fantastic content so thanks @chadstoltzfus and @sam_holland for the presentations. Anytime I can get a peek into other people's workflows I learn new stuff.