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Improvements to Onshape - April 28th, 2023
Ignacio_Martos_
Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 18 
Closing up April with a bang! For the second time this month Onshape brings more improvements to the product. Improvements to PCB Studio, the UI, and drawings quality of life are some of the highlights of this release.
CAD IMPROVEMENTS
PCB STUDIO IMPROVEMENTS
PCB Studio supports data exchange between mechanical and electronics engineers. Updates from the original PCB imported into the PCB Studio can be pushed to the existing Onshape Assembly, instead of creating a new Assembly.
REVISIONS, PART NUMBERS, AND PROPERTIES IN ASSEMBLY LIST
You can now choose to show the part and sub-assembly status of anything you insert into an Assembly. This includes part number, state, and instance revision.
SURFACE EDGE REPRESENTATION
Certain operations like Loft and Boundary surface can sometimes turn an edge's analytical curve into splines. Curve data is now preserved so that, for example, measurements reveal the original arc or curve data.
DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS
EXCLUDE FROM SECTION VIEW
When creating or editing section views, you can now exclude parts from being broken out for clarity.PARTIAL SECTION VIEW EDITS
You can now edit partial section views so that the section line moves to the inside of the two association points initially defined.AUXILIARY VIEW IMPROVEMENTS
A new set of Drawing properties panel controls are available for Auxiliary views for ANSI vs ISO style choices.MIN MAX TOLERANCES
Drawing dimensions, Chamfer dimensions, and Hole callout dimensions now allow for MIN and MAX tolerance types.GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS
ALLOW COMMA INPUT FOR DECIMAL SEPARATOR
For people in the US, using a period (.) is standard notation when delimiting decimals. For many others, the comma (,) is the standard; we have added a setting in your account preferences that allows you to change the standard used.
SHARE, LABEL & DELETE UI
We have enhanced the experience of scrolling through documents by adding shortcuts in the UI that allow you to share, delete, and label data more intuitively. We have also added clarity when deleting groups of documents. Now, if you do not have delete permissions for any of the selected documents, an information message provides insight on which documents you can or cannot delete.
‘MOVE TO’ DIALOG IMPROVEMENTS
Move documents, publications, and folders are now presented in alphabetical order.
MULTI TAB EXPORT
You can now optionally apply Export rules to the zip folder content, where it was previously only applied to the zip folder.
EDU IMPROVEMENTS
IMPROVED CLASS DASHBOARD PERFORMANCE
Class dashboards now filter out:1. Draft assignments
2. Assignments that were deleted without any modeling in them
ONSHAPE MOBILE
FULL SUPPORT FOR PUBLICATIONS
On mobile devices (Android and iOS), it is now possible to create Publications or update references of items contained within the Publication.CONFIGURATION PANEL FOR iOS
View-only Configuration tables appear in Part Studios and Assemblies with configured data. This is helpful when understanding the rules that drive configurations and for viewing Custom properties related to each configured item.LABELS IN SIDEBAR
in Onshape for iOS, an expandable Label list is found in the sidebar of the Documents page to filter Documents by one or more user-defined labels.
RENDER STUDIO IMPROVEMENTS
3D PRINTING APPEARANCE
A new 3D printing appearance, bump map and texture are available in the appearance picker in Render Studio.
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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‘MOVE TO’ DIALOG IMPROVEMENTS
Wow! I feel like I have been waiting an eternity for this. That 3d printed appearance looks great! All those part numbers and revisions in the assembly tree is really going to save on right clicking for me! This is a really great update.PS. We need an extra setting in the 3d printed appearance. Blobs deposition frequency and stringiness density!
I wasn't expecting this until next week. Always keeping us on our toes.
I'm wondering if I can switch back to this or I'm too used to typing points though (habits die hard)...
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🎉🎈 Onshape Update: April 28th, 2023 – The Coffee Conundrum ☕️🤔🎈🎉
Oh, happy day! Onshape's latest update has arrived with more goodies than a pinata at a birthday party! 🎂💥 But, amidst the celebration, we have one pressing question. 🤔
👩💻 First, let's raise a toast to the incredible Onshape developers! 🥂 Their tireless efforts brought us breathtaking PCB Studio improvements, mesmerizing Assembly list revelations, and a whirlwind of drawing enhancements that'll make you feel like you're at an art gallery on a sugar high! 🍭🎨
🍎 Onshape Mobile users, you too can bask in the glow of these updates, now featuring Publications, Configuration panels for iOS, and Labels in the sidebar, ready to filter documents like a master detective! 🔍🕵️♀️
🌠 And let's not forget the pièce de résistance – Render Studio's snazzy new 3D printing appearance, bump map, and texture, making every render look like it's ready for the runway! 💃
Now, as much as we're over the moon with these fantastic improvements, we have to ask… Dear Onshape developers, why oh why didn't you include a function to automatically order coffee when we press F5 to see the newest update? ☕️🖥️
Imagine the joy of sipping on a fresh cup of coffee while exploring the latest CAD features! Surely, combining caffeine and creativity is a recipe for success. 😄
So, fellow Onshapers, let's celebrate these marvelous updates while pondering the coffee conundrum. 🤷♂️ Try the new features, leave your thoughts (and maybe your favorite coffee orders) below, and remember – these updates are live for all users when creating new Documents and will soon be brewing in older Documents. 📜
To the future of CAD and coffee – cheers! ☕️🛠️😂
The dopamine I get from these updates combined with the randomness and uncertainty of the features literally makes them addictive.
I was excited to see a bunch of juicy Drawing Improvements.
Then I was really excited to see bulk export of tabs.
Then I tried bulk export, it still isn't good enough yet.
What I really, really, REALLY! need, is to right click an assembly and export every instance to a separate step file. (reading the current config used for each part as a separate instance in the assembly and all sub assemblies..)
after every release to manufacture, I still have to right click every instance one at a time and export to step.
As for the tree display option to show part number and release sate, that's nice! (image 1)
But I could give a crap less about release state, since we don't change the release states ever.
If we could have the option to customize what items get displayed here, AND change the order in which they are displayed. That would be perfect
For example, I just want parts numbers, currently, my work around has always been to:
Set Description as the part name
Set Part number as the part number
Set Part Name as "PartNumber" & " - " & "PartDescription" (see image 2)
So, every edit I make to one of these fields, I need to change in 2 places.
But the result is a nice Grid-like looking tree (our part numbers are always the same length, so names come after to make clean easy to read columns...)
Other than that, good work
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But also agree with John McClary that being able to select which properties are displayed in the tree would be even better. In our company, we really only need to see the revision letter. Part number is already part of the "file name" and release state is already indicated by the triangle, dots or blue circle.
Thank you team for the hard work. These are much appreciated.
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So, you don't have to configure the entire document for localization... So, you can use your commas and I could use the decimal point at the same time!
Axel Kollmenter
I recently discovered that even when the decimal separator is set to a comma, we can still use a period.
That's fantastic news! I've been so accustomed to using the point, and it'll undoubtedly take some time for me to adapt my muscle memory.
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Finally, you allow me the use of commas..... for me, even that I use English language in Onshape, this is a real game changer.
Hopefully, I can re-adept quickly…. You know, muscle memory.
Thank you very much!
Maybe the use of enhanced character set in variable names would be nice too… but I want to avoid nerving ;-)
Is there any chance to search the part number in the tab just like searching the part number in the assembly list?
And I hope we have a function to check the assembly gap between all parts. sometime the assembly didn't have interference but the gap is too small. the may have some problems it's hard to check all the gaps.
I think you asked this in the wrong section of the forum.
For the answer, no you cannot copy and save a shared file