Improvements to Onshape - June 12th, 2023

cody_armstrong

It's June, time for our 8th(!) update of the year, and this one is big. It includes improvements to nearly all aspects of Onshape, so there should be something for everyone to get excited about! Let's get started.

GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

TRIM CURVE

You can now trim (or extend) a curve.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/fbciox0xc1

VARIABLES IN SKETCH PATTERN INSTANCE COUNTS

You can now assign a Variable to a Sketch pattern instance count.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/ka0jegw4jd

STANDARD CONTENT METADATA

You can now edit more properties associated with Standard content. In the past, the only editable properties associated with Standard content were Part number and Description.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/v9bqu4nrnf

NEW SKETCH TEXT FONTS

20 New Sketch text fonts have been added with this update. Click "Show" below to see the list.

1. Allerta

2. Balthazar

3. Baumans

4. Bebas Neue

5. Comic Neue

6. Courier Prime

7. Didact Gothic

8. M PLUS Rounded 1c

9. Michroma

10. Oswald

11. Poppins

12. PT Sans

13. Rajdhani

14. Roboto

15. Ropa Sans

16. Source Sans Pro

17. Sofia Sans

18. Orbitron

19. Inconsolata
    

20. Inter
    

HOLE FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS

New termination conditions have been added to Hole feature including "Up to next" and "Up to entity."

JOIN ADJACENT SURFACES

You will find a new import option to "Join adjacent surfaces." This new option allows you to simplify imported parts with many adjoining surfaces by merging them together during import. 

PERFORMANCE INDICATOR IMPROVEMENTS

New icons have been added to the Performance panel to alert you to poorly performing Part Studios.

DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS

DRAWING DIMENSION IMPROVEMENTS

Drawing dimensions with bent leaders now have an adjustable jog point at the bend.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/4huhha6dp7

PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENTS

NUMBERING SCHEMES

You can now define Numbering schemes and auto-generate Part numbers for Items and Standard content.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/rqtai2wi9r

RENDER STUDIO IMPROVEMENTS

NEW RENDER STUDIO APPEARANCES

Nearly 900 new Appearances were added to Render Studio with this update, including many popular and useful new metals, fabrics, paints, and plastics. 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/g85hrfu28p

TESSELLATION QUALITY

When creating or updating a Render Studio scene, you can now use the per-part tessellation quality set in each part’s Appearance panel in its Part Studio, giving you a greater degree of tessellation quality control. This is the default setting. Prior to this update the Part Studio and Render Studio tessellation settings were independent of each other.

ARENA CONNECTION IMPROVEMENTS

SUPPORT FOR STANDARD CONTENT AND ITEMS

Standard content and Items can now be synced with Arena PLM.

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.

xTimRice

Wow, that’s a “banger”! Well done team, lots of great stuff. 

S1mon

Wow. This is a nice set of improvements which covers many different areas. Looking forward to trying out the curve trim/extend tool and the sketch pattern variable usage as well as the standard content metadata. (and fonts, and rendering materials, and....)

adam_geary

There's a whole lot of stuff I'm going to like using in this one, but one in particular catches my eye. Does "Join adjacent surfaces" mean it can turn all the triangular facets of mesh objects into surfaces?  Even if it's all just flat surfaces with the coplanar ones merged together, that'd be a huge help when importing data from such files.

Misael

love the improvements! looking forward to test the "join adjacent surfaces"

OSKM

Variables in sketch patterns and sketch text font additions are great, will be using those two very regularly.

Thanks for another great set of updates.

jelte_steur814

very happy with the 'Trim/Extend' Curve feature!
I see a great future ahead for this 'Help point' functionality.

That would also be great in e.g. "split" (to define which one part is the 'original' and which is 'new'.)

Nath_McC

Outstanding Update. Great work.

ben_partouch

That's an awesome update. Thank you guys!

Chris_D_Mentes_001

That Sketch Array was a big deal when I first started using onshape. Awesome to see variables implemented.
And we're finally starting to see some fonts!!! Is this fore-shadowing??

e_g_e

Great update!
The ability to add categories to standard content will be very useful!

emagdalenaC2i

Great improvemets

Hole feature including "Up to next" and "Up to entity" deserves a video

Nothing noteworthy in the code review this time ;-)

mlaflecheCAD

Join Richard Doyle (The User Group Guy) and Mike LaFleche (The Professor) as we react to the latest Onshape update.

3 pm Eastern US time, Tuesday, Jun 13, 2023.

https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:7074335519291109376/

https://www.youtube.com/live/OLpjScwSE7s?feature=share

john_mcclary

Nice updates.

I like we can now edit all the properties of standard content.
Except I had to promote one of my users to admin, since that was the only way they could edit now.

Josiah_Harthcock

Great job guys!

shawn_crocker

VARIABLES IN SKETCH PATTERN INSTANCE COUNTS

I am soooo glad this is available now!  I have really wanted this since 2020!

Kyler_Walker

Variables in sketch pattern instance count!  Thank you!

don_williams909

<sigh> Still no Arial font.  Great updates otherwise!

Nick_Holzem

Nice rebound!

partsoven

Great update! 

S1mon

I've had a little time to play with the extend curve feature, and it is not at all what I would have hoped for [1]. The results are not desirable for good surfacing. With a very simple degree-3 Bézier, Onshape adds a bunch of complexity to the curve, flattening out the curvature with multiple spans and only G2 continuity. It's very possible to extend such a curve in a way that naturally follows the curvature without losing the original shape.

Here's a very simple degree-3 curve:

If I extend it in Onshape with curvature set, I get this:


Contrast this with the behavior in Plasticity (this is also possible in Alias or Rhino or many other tools):


Here's the Onshape and Plasticity curves overlayed:


Here's a link to the Onshape document (with the Plasticity version imported for review).

[1]:
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/20345/direct-modeling-extend-trim-for-curves-surfaces-which-maintains-the-existing-degree
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/18824/allow-extension-of-beziers-when-using-edge

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/20230/rebuild-curve

Jeremy_Winston

I have been waiting for this ability to modify Onshape drawing dimension leaders for 2+ years now. This is a fantastic change that all engineers at my company are celebrating. To whoever at Onshape prioritizes the updates: please focus on drawings above all else. engineers need greater customization/control of onshape drawings.

S1mon

On the plus side of this release, the sketch pattern variables are pretty cool. You can do things like delete instances or make elements of them construction and the sketch pattern will remember those changes regardless of the quantity variable. What it can't do is set a dimension to the last element and have that always be the last element regardless of the quantity. You can set up the math to divide an overall length so you can space things nicely.

MichaelPascoe

The Onshape team is on a roll!

• Variables in Sketch Pattern !
• New Sketch Text Fonts ! !
• Numbering Schemes ! ! !
• New Render Studio Materials ! ! ! !

Mark_Lugowski

Great update! Thank you. All improvements to drawings are much appreciated!

emagdalenaC2i

En este enlace podéis ver las Novedades de Onshape en español:
https://youtu.be/blEWuWGt5sI

michael_vanende

john_mcclary said:

Nice updates.

I like we can now edit all the properties of standard content.
Except I had to promote one of my users to admin, since that was the only way they could edit now.

Did they create an improvement request for this? I think it is better to have a permission that you grand to your users.

philip_7

john_mcclary said:

Nice updates.

I like we can now edit all the properties of standard content.
Except I had to promote one of my users to admin, since that was the only way they could edit now.

@john_mcclary - not sure whether you are on Pro or Enterprise, but within Enterprise I have an explicit permissions setting under the Global Permissions menu for this which can be assigned to individuals or groups. I created a new group "Standard Content Managers" for this:

Lynx_232

I see some small changes have been added to the hole tool. Those are nice features, but what about hole tolerances in the feature? Being able to add press or clearance dowel tolerances, so they come through in the detailing, is something that is really missing here. Hopefully you guys will be able to add some features like that in the future. 

Jason_S

michael_vanende said:

john_mcclary said:

Nice updates.

I like we can now edit all the properties of standard content.
Except I had to promote one of my users to admin, since that was the only way they could edit now.

Did they create an improvement request for this? I think it is better to have a permission that you grand to your users.

Yes, we're working on it.

Lynx_232 said:

I see some small changes have been added to the hole tool. Those are nice features, but what about hole tolerances in the feature? Being able to add press or clearance dowel tolerances, so they come through in the detailing, is something that is really missing here. Hopefully you guys will be able to add some features like that in the future. 

We don't have dowel pins in holes today. It is on the radar for sure.

john_mcclary

philip_7 said:

john_mcclary said:

Nice updates.

I like we can now edit all the properties of standard content.
Except I had to promote one of my users to admin, since that was the only way they could edit now.

@john_mcclary - not sure whether you are on Pro or Enterprise, but within Enterprise I have an explicit permissions setting under the Global Permissions menu for this which can be assigned to individuals or groups. I created a new group "Standard Content Managers" for this:

Pro, but Onshape support has created a ticket. Thanks