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Improvements to Onshape - January 12th, 2022
NeilCooke
Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,714 
On behalf of everyone at PTC, I'd like to wish our users everywhere a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Do you think we had time to rest over the holiday period? Not at all. We're keeping the ball rolling with this latest update...
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.
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS
SEARCH/FILTER/NAVIGATE DOCUMENT HISTORY
Documents with a long history of edits can be difficult to navigate and find the exact moment in time when a certain edit took place. The Versions and history panel now includes a search tool to help you quickly find a history entry based on element tab, object type, user or date.COMPUTED MASS
The mass of a Part is now automatically calculated based on the assigned material. The Mass Part property can then be used in Drawing notes, title blocks, callouts and BOM tables and will update automatically when the Part geometry or material is changed.MATERIAL CONTEXT MENU
If a material has already been assigned to a Part, the context menu now changes from Assign material to Edit material to make it easier to determine whether a material has been assigned or not.QUICK SELECTION
The Create selection tool is now integrated into the context menu. Hover over geometry and right-click to see the selection options available.MISSING REFERENCES IN FOLDERS
A new Folder icon lets you know when one or more features inside it have missing references.ADD TEAM CREATOR TO TEAM
When a new Team is created, the default behaviour is now to automatically add the creator to that team.FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS
ADDITIONAL CONTROL FOR VARIABLE RADIUS FILLETS
Inflection points for variable radius fillets can now be added along an edge to precisely position each radius value.SPLIT PART CHOOSE SIDE TO KEEP
The Split part feature now lets you choose whether you want to keep the geometry on one or both sides of the split.VISUALIZATION IMPROVEMENTS
SCALE/FLIP ZEBRA STRIPES
The zebra stripes created by the Curvature visualization tool can now be fine tuned to help you inspect the quality of your surfaces.HIGH QUALITY TESSELLATION FOR SURFACE ANALYSIS
Whenever you need a better graphics representation, especially during surface analysis, you can now temporarily switch your view to high quality.IMPROVED CURVE TESSELLATION
Curves are now automatically rendered to a finer tolerance to make their curvature easier to visualize.FACE CURVATURE COMBS
The Show curvature command can now display curvature combs on faces to help you check surface quality and curvature continuity.IN-CONTEXT TRANSPARENCY CONTROL
Viewing, selecting and hiding in-context assembly geometry is now easy with the new “Context transparency” slider.HIDE PARTS IN ISOLATE
The Isolate and Make transparent commands now include a new option to hide transparent parts completely.HIGHLIGHT FEATURES FROM PARTS LIST
In addition to the filter at the top of the Feature list, you can now select a Part, Surface or Curve from the Parts list and the features used to construct them are highlighted in the Feature list.DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS
TRUE RADIUS DIMENSIONS
The Radial dimension tool is now able to measure and display the correct size of a fillet or other circular edge that is not in the plane of the Drawing view and therefore not a true arc.TABLE CELL PADDING
A new Drawing property for tables enables you to control padding around text in a cell. This is a global property for all tables and all cells in a Drawing to specify the minimum horizontal and vertical spacing around text in a cell to maintain legibility or to increase the density of information displayed.PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENTS
CUSTOM COMPUTED PART PROPERTIES
In addition to computed mass, Onshape Professional and Onshape Enterprise customers can now define the value of a Part custom property using FeatureScript. The result of the custom part property feature can be overridden by the user (with permissions) and can be displayed in BOM tables and Drawing notes. Documentation for this feature can be found here.TRANSFER OWNERSHIP
The Transfer ownership dialog now lists Onshape Enterprise and Onshape Professional companies separately. This makes it easier for users who are members of multiple companies to ensure that the right documents are transferred to the right company.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. Over the next few days, these features will also be available in Documents created before this update.
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It's funny how the Split update is a bit like the Section featurescript. Any chance we'll be able to split a part with a open sketch soon?
I assume the ability to dial in the density of the surface curvature combs will be coming soon too?
One thought about computed part properties - it would be really great to not have to drag stuff out of a BOM table in Onshape and into Excel just to roll up cost or weight.
Finally computed mass property. Now I can ditch my work around.
Computed custom property for costing and sheet size, just in time! I'm working on that right now
Excellent update
The volume and bounding box would be very useful for us but I find it a bit weird the onus is on the user to learn to code to be able to use that.
Cheers for all the updates.
Finally we got mass and computed part properties, this is the trigger for me to refresh my programming background and to start using FeatureScript.
Thank you
If just as many updates for drawings come in February, I'll run out of superlatives.
If a model is transparent no curvature visualization appears.
I can't remember if this was the same before the update.
I can reproduce this behavior:
- Create new solid part
- change transparency to e.g. 46% under appearance
- try to visualize curvature
- nothing appears
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My favourite is the in-context transparency slider. Fluidly alternating between picking context references and working just with the new part is much better than turning the context on and off.
Thread on the topic..
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/14114/report-mass-properties-information-through-the-bom#latest