Chaos in search for a Featurescript

billy2

It'd also be nice for authors to describe what the script does in the description so we know what the script does. Nobody uses it and it'd make listings better if they contained a brief description.

billy2

I think I've found the original "thread creator"



These are some impressive stats. I haven't seen anything else close to this.

billy2

Here's the 1st description I've found in the entire FS library that wasn't "official".



It'd be nice if everyone did this and tell us what the FS does.

The description that is captured in the featurescript database is the documents description. Just in case you wanted to add a description for the feature scripts you're currently working on.

S1mon

There are a lot of issues that I'm sure Onshape is aware of, but it's a bit disappointing how so many things about finding and using custom feature scripts are less than ideal.

Case in point, icons for Custom Features don't show at all in Enterprise.

Here's a few more IR's etc. to comment and vote for:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/7927/ability-to-make-custom-feature-script-tool-bars
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/18354/officially-curated-custom-features-library
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/11474/use-release-management-to-issue-featurescripts-aka-custom-features

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/18279/custom-featurescript-in-flyout-toolbar

NeilCooke

I did toy with the idea of creating a pinned announcement in the FeatureScript category with a list of official scripts. Still can if you think it will help. 

billy2

Here's a listing of popular feature scripts. 

FS Select Click



If there's one that I've missed please post the did which can be found below in your address bar:


I'll add it to the listing.

billy2

I haven't given up on creating a database to list feature scripts. Websites are like children and require a lot of attention. I've got rustyshed.com updated to the latest releases and ready to populate with a new database.

Link to rustyshed.com

I've got the database running locally and it's pretty straight forward. Currently the example app creates an api similar to glassworks and I need to repurpose it into a sockets based app. I'm also going to update the "OS api-key" example to include a newer nodejs version and include the newer await functionality vs. using request. I'll be posting this in the OS git repository for those using express and want to switch to using the api-key method.

I'm using this opportunity to build a newer cache database  which is currently quite popular. Cloud API's are being repurposed a lot these days and what I'm about to do is not uncommon. Most cache databases are implemented for speed improvements but many are created for reorganization similar to what we're doing. Currently there are approximately 10,000 feature scripts with many being added daily.

MichaelPascoe

Here is an improvement request to make finding features easier: Feature Store - Improvement Request