Improvements to Onshape - November 21st, 2022

MehulGala

In this latest update, we have improved multiple aspects of Onshape. Many of these updates have been driven by the improvement requests sent in by you, our customers. If you have improvement requests, please submit your ideas here. Let us know what you think.

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

ASYMMETRIC FILLETS

The Fillet feature now allows you to create an asymmetric round using two offset dimensions, similar to how chamfer works.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/asplpwcyad

PARTIAL EDGE FILLETS

The Fillet feature now allows you to control how much of the edge is included in the feature. 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/pkk2v5u6n6

MODIFY/ADD SECTION VIEW WITHOUT EDITING EXISTING SECTION VIEW(S)

This improvement allows you to edit existing section views without toggling off the current section.  

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/wfoo49rolo

GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS 

MANUAL RECONNECTION OF A SESSION

This improvement allows you to reconnect to your session after a period of inactivity without having to refresh the browser.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/itmq9q790s

CHANGES TO MY ONSHAPE

To reveal an ownership-first view of the data, 'My Onshape' is being changed. As a result, data ownership is now clear. 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/q1ty3848gs

SHEET NUMBERS ON INSPECTION LIST

Inspection sheets now include a column with the sheet number where each item number, annotation, or dimension is located. 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/003qtqw7lc

DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS

ENHANCED CONTROL OF CENTERMARKS

This improvement allows the adjustment of automatic centermark lines and the ability to extend lines.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/m9bali4ydf

FLAG NOTE CALLOUTS STYLE PANEL

The style panel now supports the editing of flag notes and other callouts. 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/uo8v05yfjl

MOBILE IMPROVEMENTS (iOS, iPadOS, Android)

CHANGES TO MY ONSHAPE

To reveal an ownership-first view of the data, 'My Onshape' is being changed. As a result, data ownership is now inherently unambiguous.  More details in the video outlined above under "GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS"

FULL MOBILE SUPPORT FOR EXTERNAL THREADS

External thread callouts can be created in the Part Studio for all mobile device users.

MOBILE SUPPORT FOR PUBLICATION NOTES

You can now view the notes for Publications on the mobile platform.

 

LEARNING CENTER UPDATES

CUSTOM RELEASE MANAGEMENT WORKFLOWS IN ONSHAPE ENTERPRISE

Check out this new course to help Enterprise administrators create custom release management workflows in Onshape. This course is available to Enterprise and Professional users.

ENHANCEMENTS TO THE ONSHAPE LEARNING CENTER HOMEPAGE

The pull down menus on https://learn.onshape.com have been adjusted to align closer with the catalog page to make it easier to navigate to content.

VIDEO UPDATES

We have more individual video updates as well! See the complete list of videos we have updated or added to existing courses:

• Part Design using Part Studios course

• Updates to the Hole feature video to include drill angle options.

• New video on the External threads feature.

• Onshape Assemblies course

• Updates to the Tangent mate video to include Tangent propagation option.

• Advanced Part Design course

• Updates to the Split feature video to include 3D curves examples.

• Sharing and Collaboration course

• A new lesson on Publications including four new videos and one quiz.

Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments in the Forum post. 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.

xTimRice

Ownership-first is a lovely organizational improvement! 

How do you know you have a rockstar team? They deploy late at night 💪

ian_d_gardiner

Edit section view is very helpful. Manual reconnect speeds things up nicely. Company name ownership is clear and helpful. Great quality of life enhancements. Much appreciated!

billyzelsnack

Edit Section View. YEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!

EvanReese

Love the asymmetric fillets! I can't think of a time I've needed a partial edge fillet though. Does anyone have an example from their own experience?

Axel_Kollmenter

Wow! Brilliant new updates! I love the new option to edit the section view. This will definitely save some time. Also every new fillet improvement is super nice. I don´t know where I should the partial edge fillet yet, but its good to know that its possible.

OSKM

Not sure which one to shout loudest about, Possibly asymmetric fillets..

Fantastic set of improvements!

eric_pesty

I dont' do multiple sections that often but maybe I will do it more now that it's easier to get to! The "reconnect" should save quite a bit of time as it can be annoying to have to refresh the window of a large assembly because it "expired" when you switch back to it and have to wait for it to reload.

I could see the partial fillet being useful if you have a difficult corner and the fillet fails. You could stop it short from the corner and do a patch surface in the corner.
You can also do some sharp looking things like this when you follow it up with a variable fillet although I am also not sure when I would actually need to do this. Assymmetric fillets will definitely open up some options!

NeilCooke

Evan_Reese said:

Love the asymmetric fillets! I can't think of a time I've needed a partial edge fillet though. Does anyone have an example from their own experience?

Perhaps also a router path that needs to stop short. You can then finish it off with a revolve. But mostly I would use it to patch failed fillets like @eric_pesty said. 

sebastian_glanzner

I love the asymmetric fillets! 

Perfect timing for the German Onshape User Group Meeting 2022-12-01 
https://www.onshape.com/en/user-group-network/german

I will make a short demonstration: How to optimize stresses with Onshape Simulation

ramiro_soto354

Please add mirror 

Alex_Pitt

Thanks Onshape. Good improvements. The new controls for section and the center marks are my faves   

MichaelPascoe

Nice work, thanks Onshape team!

@Evan_Reese It's also useful when you need to transition from a fillet to a chamfer or another shape while on the same edge. Pretty time consuming without this.

This new re-connect option is very nice. I feel more efficient today already.

Tristan_Neumann

I really appreciate the small quality of life improvements in these updates. The ability to edit section views without having to reinstate them will save quite a bit of frustration. 

don_williams909

Arial.

don_williams909

ramiro_soto354 said:

Please add mirror 

They have "mirror" in both sketches and parts.  What more are you looking for?

mlaflecheCAD

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STEG

Encore des améliorations utiles! Beau travail! 

poulsone

Evan_Reese said:

Love the asymmetric fillets! I can't think of a time I've needed a partial edge fillet though. Does anyone have an example from their own experience?

I needed this last Friday:
 Unmachinable fillet: 

Machinable fillet using new functionality, with an additional fillet to clean up the ends:

Alex_Pitt

don_williams909 said:

Arial.

I've been asked for my drawing text to be Century Gothic.

EvanReese

Cool to see some good partial fillet examples. I also noticed that the asymmetric options carry into the variable fillet options so you can make wacky stuff like this. Not that I'd ever want to make this, but I could. This one is a conic with very small rho so it looks like a chamfer, then I flipped every other point to make it wavy. Using conic this way makes problematic tight curvature at the edges, so not good for a production model, but it's interesting to see fillet becoming so flexible.

sebastian_glanzner

@Evan_Reese Very interesting geometry!
Send that to your machinist on 1st of April 

david_mcmahon

Thanks for the updates! One question though. Why is the centermark linestyle dashed vs. a centerline?

bryan_lagrange

Another good release.....but................

Jolly

Oooooh, asymmetric fillets!  A tool I didn't know I needed but suspect my injection molded parts will now never live without!  very nice.

emagdalenaC2i

En este enlace podéis ver las Novedades de Onshape en español:
https://youtu.be/2qtx4ydYrAY

miczech

Edit Section Vieeeeeeeeeeeah! Finally!
Reconnect the session - sooooooo useful for big assemblies!

Greatest update so far! Kudos to everyone to the whole team for making it possible 🙏

jack_stier

Cool update!

Pattabi_Kakumanu

Excellent improvements!

romeograham

I would like to see the Partial Edge Fillet functionality for Chamfers - with bonus points for a revolved termination option. A very common maching operation is to chamfer an edge - and stop the chamfer before the end of the edge. The resulting revolved cut where the cutter stops could be an option in the UI for the feature.

ivan_aristov

bryan_lagrange said:

Another good release.....but................

Cone flat pattern without facets, please! Why it works so effortlessly in F360 and SW?