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Improvements to Onshape - December 12th, 2022
Jake_Delano
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CAD IMPROVEMENTS
COLOR MAP CURVATURE ANALYSIS
In addition to zebra stripes, you can now analyze surfaces using color mapping. Analysis options include Gaussian and mean curvatures, as well as maximum and minimum radii of your surfaces.AGGREGATED ASSEMBLY PROPERTIES
You can now utilize aggregated Assembly properties when working with Assemblies to get information like the total mass of your Assembly into your bill of materials.
FRAME END CAPS
End caps can be added to frames that you've created, allowing you to match a frame profile or its internal profile or create your own rectangular or circular cap with their own editable parameters.PARTIAL FLANGE MANIPULATORS
Partial flanges are now able to be defined using sliding manipulators.BRIDGING CURVE IMPROVEMENTS
The Bridging curve feature can now start in the middle of an edge and match curvature to a face. Controls have been added to edit the position along the selected edge and the tangency angle of the curve in reference to a face.DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS
DRAWING FORMAT PAINTER UPDATE
The drawing Format painter has been updated to give you more control over pasting of style, tolerance and precision, and/or content for dimensions and annotations, to improve drawing workflows.GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS
NEW COMMENT INDICATOR
For increased accessibility and visibility into when a new comment is added to your workspace, a new comment icon will appear on top of the Comments tab, regardless if you are tagged in it or not.
RENDER STUDIO IMPROVEMENTS
RESET GROUND BUTTON
The Environments and ground menu now includes a button to reset the ground to the lowest point on the model. See this in action in the video below.NEW CLIPPING AND TONE MAPPING SETTING LOCATION
Settings for clipping and Tone mapping are now located under the View tools dropdown menu under the View cube.IOS IMPROVEMENTS
AR VIEW SHADOWS
AR view now includes dynamic shadows for your model that update as the workspace changes.ANDROID IMPROVEMENTS
LINK SHARING
The Onshape Android application now allows you to toggle link sharing permissions.
LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS
TECHNICAL BRIEFINGS
Onshape Arena Connector Guide- A new technical briefing for Enterprise administrators who are connecting Onshape to Arena.Updates to Navigating Onshape for New Users to include additional information about navigating an Onshape document as a view-only user.
VIDEO UPDATES
Frames Fundamentals course
Updates to the custom profiles video to include frame alignment points.
Onshape Surface Modeling course
Update to the complex surface lofting video to include ruled surface and new loft feature options.
Updates to the Fill surface video to include the new adjacent faces option.
PCB Studio Fundamentals course
Update to the Navigating PCB Studio layout video to include updating the Bill of Materials reference designator.
- Updates to the Onshape Documents video to reflect newer interface and brand.
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.
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I just wish that Bridging curve had a G3 option, but @Evan_Reese and I are working on something which will help a lot. We may need to rework things a bit to build on some of the new stuff in here.
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In my experience, for surfaces to be G^N it helps a lot if the curves are G^(N+1). While it's technically not necessary, it helps a lot. And even though the surfaces are using cubic NURBS, it seems like they often have so many points internally that they start to approximate a higher degree.
It's also often the case that when I want two surfaces to be G^2 to each other, I will only set the loft, sweep, or fill to to be tangent to each other, because choosing curvature causes the surfaces to be more tortured than I would like. If the underlying curves are G^3, then setting the surfaces tangent will often get the surfaces to look G^2 if not G^3.
What's the chance of getting Bézier surfaces (of whatever degree), or NURBS which are degree 5 (or greater) in the future? Are cubic NURBS surfaces a limit of Parasolid or Onshape?
Re: higher-order surfaces, cubic NURBS seems to be what some Parasolid operations produce, but it's certainly not the limit of what Parasolid can represent. We are working on a way of producing some higher-order surfaces (I mean besides opCreateBSplineSurface) but that's all I'll say for now.
I can't wait to tell my father about the new feature allowing him to create frame end caps.
Thank you, Onshape team, for a fantastic year full of such impressive improvements. Happy holidays!
Axel Kollmenter
Been asking for calculated mass in assemblies for a while.
When they finally release it, it can do Sooo much more.
Thank you Onshape team. Happy Hollidays
Thanks Onshape team for all the hard work and merry Christmas!🎄
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I'll also check out the class thing!
The simple examples at the end of these videos are very helpful. Great for learning how to actually use the new functionality.
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The changelog also states:
- Enterprise: Add where-used data into Analytics
I've just jumped into our analytics and can't see where or how this is applied. Any clues?Currently this data is being used to help with other link and permission information. It's debatable whether this should have been included in the changelog or not, but I like to err on the side of more transparency. We are hoping to leverage this information in Analytics more in the future.
I love the Drawing Format used for the Throttle Body.
It looks clean and extremely easy to understand the drawing.