Improvements to Onshape - January 11th, 2023

glen_dewsbury

Been some nice updates this round. Thanks OS.
Was working with in context visibility the morning.
Would be a nice enhancement when mousing over the list if parts would highlight the part in graphics area.

ian_d_gardiner

eric_pesty said:

ian_d_gardiner said:

Awesome. Great job Onshape team. Some super improvements here
I'm really impressed by the bold choice to offer simulation to students. This is a huge benefit to the kids; it is extraordinarily kind for Onshape to carry the processsing weight incurred by millions of students using Onshape

It looks like it's only for "Education Enterprise" (as opposed to regular "Education")... I don't know exactly how it works but I'm guessing the "school" has to pay for this and that must be how they recover at least a significant portion of the processing expenses.
Seems like a good long term investment regardless and sounds like a reasonable compromise even though you are still shutout if your school isn't willing/can't afford to pay for Enterprise!

You are right Eric. It is for Education Enterprise. Let's say, 'soon to be millions' of students

Education Enterprise is practically free. My school pays $3500/yr, the cost of a single Enterprise license, but has 600 accounts

My school looked into offering a course in Product Data Management (PDM) with 'other software' and abandoned the effort due to cost and complexity
Imagine calling your local consultants to set up a PDM for:

• 600 accounts
• with international access
• for users who don't even know they are using PDM
• with world class security
• for $3500/yr because it's a school

The value that Onshape offers students is extraordinarily kind

eric_pesty

@ian_d_gardiner
That does look like outstanding value for sure! I would have expected it to cost more.
Truth be told, it's probably a very sounds investment in terms of driving future sales as these students enter the workforce so even if it was completely free it would probably still make sense financially (although the payback period is probably quite long)...

wout_theelen541

eric_pesty said:

ian_d_gardiner said:

Awesome. Great job Onshape team. Some super improvements here
I'm really impressed by the bold choice to offer simulation to students. This is a huge benefit to the kids; it is extraordinarily kind for Onshape to carry the processsing weight incurred by millions of students using Onshape

It looks like it's only for "Education Enterprise" (as opposed to regular "Education")... I don't know exactly how it works but I'm guessing the "school" has to pay for this and that must be how they recover at least a significant portion of the processing expenses.
Seems like a good long term investment regardless and sounds like a reasonable compromise even though you are still shutout if your school isn't willing/can't afford to pay for Enterprise!

I imagine the schools get a significant discount, similar to the other major CAD programs. I imagine if you're school isn't using Enterprise it would be pretty difficult to verify that you are really a student. I wish my school had been using OnShape earlier on. It's not just a great tool for CAD but it's also great just to learn about more cloud based ideas, ticketing, version control, etc. 

I have one additional question which is when a student is no longer affiliated with their school does their account simply get downgraded? I imagine it would be super handy to keep your certificates.

Pattabi_Kakumanu

Great improvements and keep up the great work, Onshape team!

MichaelPascoe

This can be marked as completed: RENDER STUDIO - USE PART MATERIAL FROM PART STUDIO
Wow, this saves a lot of time.

emagdalenaC2i

Yes, and it also works fine with custom material libraries.
But you need to set the same material name as in the Onshape material library., which doesn't work well if you want to have your materials in Spanish.

erkin_tek

12 days ago I made a chandelier and checked if assembly could show reference image ( our living room),  and I was shocked to learn that it is not possible. thanks to this update this wanted small feature has been added. I donno but it seems a little faint?

NeilCooke

erkin_tek said:

12 days ago I made a chandelier and checked if assembly could show reference image ( our living room),  and I was shocked to learn that it is not possible. thanks to this update this wanted small feature has been added. I donno but it seems a little faint?

Sketch images are translucent - it's supposed to be a reference for design rather than a decal or label.

MichaelPascoe

@erkin_tek, it is possible to make them fully visible if you insert multiple images on top of each other. I learned this trick from @Konstantin_Sh.

There is a custom feature that does this Image - Custom Feature. However, custom feature sketches are not visible to assemblies or drawings yet. 

Chris_D_Mentes_001

@MichaelPascoe
love that we can hack our way into getting what we want while we wait :P 

alnis

wout_theelen541 said:

eric_pesty said:

ian_d_gardiner said:

Awesome. Great job Onshape team. Some super improvements here
I'm really impressed by the bold choice to offer simulation to students. This is a huge benefit to the kids; it is extraordinarily kind for Onshape to carry the processsing weight incurred by millions of students using Onshape

It looks like it's only for "Education Enterprise" (as opposed to regular "Education")... I don't know exactly how it works but I'm guessing the "school" has to pay for this and that must be how they recover at least a significant portion of the processing expenses.
Seems like a good long term investment regardless and sounds like a reasonable compromise even though you are still shutout if your school isn't willing/can't afford to pay for Enterprise!

I imagine the schools get a significant discount, similar to the other major CAD programs. I imagine if you're school isn't using Enterprise it would be pretty difficult to verify that you are really a student. I wish my school had been using OnShape earlier on. It's not just a great tool for CAD but it's also great just to learn about more cloud based ideas, ticketing, version control, etc. 

I have one additional question which is when a student is no longer affiliated with their school does their account simply get downgraded? I imagine it would be super handy to keep your certificates.

@wout_theelen541 When a student is no longer affiliated with their school, their account gets downgraded to a free plan. All private documents remain accessible as read-only with the ability to export (similar to how ending a professional Onshape subscription leaves you with all of your work available to view and export forever). Making documents public restores the ability to edit.

You keep all of your work & certs etc. - I can confirm this since my education account has expired a few times before I forgot to renew and found my private documents were read-only—just needed to fill out the Education sign up form with the same email again and everything works as earlier (I am still a student, of course!).

Super_Dork_42

In theory, could this mutual trim feature be used to make a loft from one object to two? I  might loft the first from plane a to plane b, then hide it and make a loft from plane a to plane c, then merge them with mutual trim to make a single shape that flows from one shape (plane a) to two (planes b and c). Or am I misunderstanding how that feature works? I am rather new to this kind of design but that's my understanding of it. And if that would work, could the one-to-multiple lofting kind of thing be folded into the loft feature in the future as an interesting workflow thing like the mutual trim feature seems to be a simplifying of a bunch of steps?

S1mon

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eric_pesty

S1mon said:

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Same!