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Improvements to Onshape - July 21st, 2023
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We are back with another exciting update for you. This update includes one of the most requested features in Onshape's history! So let's dive in.
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GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS
CUSTOM KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
You can now customize keyboard shortcuts in Onshape. Initially, only commands with default keyboard shortcuts assigned can be customized.BOM TABLE IMPROVEMENTS
You can now right-click a cell in a BOM table and "Switch to" that Part Studio, Assembly, or Linked document. This makes navigating your design via the BOM table much easier.PUBLICATION IMPROVEMENTS
Enterprise/Company Export rules are now supported when sharing publications with people outside of your organization. This makes it easier to share Publications with vendors, contractors, and others and ensure your company's naming conventions are maintained.![](https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/18/j3xn76t5087f.png)
DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS
CENTERLINE IMPROVEMENTS
You can now add a centerline in a drawing by selecting a single silhouette edge. In the past, this required 2 selections.INSPECTION ITEM IMPROVEMENTS
In a released drawing, you can reuse previous Inspection item numbers when reordering the items. During this process, a warning displays if you attempt to use an Inspection item used in a previous revision.![](https://us.v-cdn.net/5022071/uploads/editor/qu/i7pt18r1abdb.png)
ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS
ANALYTICS PANEL
Document analytics can now be viewed directly from the side panel of the Documents page. The Document dashboard shows valuable information like Modeling Time in the Last 7 Days, Document Actions Performed, Tab Types, Modeling Activity, and Access Locations.IOS IMPROVEMENTS
CUSTOM KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
Custom keyboard shortcuts assigned in the browser are supported in the Onshape iOS app.LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS
VARIABLES AND EXPRESSIONS COURSE
You will find a new self-paced course for Variables and Expressions. This course covers a variety of practical applications, ranging from using variables to define multiple dimensions, to advanced rules-based design techniques that utilize both variables and advanced expressions.TIPS FOR HIGH QUALITY SURFACES TECH BRIEFING
You will find a new "Tips for High Quality Surfaces" Tech Briefing has been added with this update. This tech briefing contains important tips to create quality curves and surfaces for more stable, high performing models.
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.6
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"Initially, only commands with default keyboard shortcuts assigned can be customized." I assume that means that full customization is coming. PLEASE PLEASE also add the ability to do custom keyboard shortcuts within feature creation.
The Tips for High Quality Surfaces is quite good. I'm very happy to see this. There are many points that I've learned over the years and strongly agree with. I'd love to see more training, tips/tricks and focus on stuff like this.
Especially excited about the "reuse Inspection Items" functionality - this will save me from assigning Inspection Items before our quality team has a chance to weigh in on the important dimensions.
Do we have any idea when we'll be able to add custom feature scripts to the shortcuts?
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This is huge!
Good work Onshape team
Dumb question, for the users who wanted customized keyboard shortcuts, are you going to make them whatever your prior cad system was? Or some other letters entirely? Just curious why that's such a requested feature?
I had my own mappings for years in ProE/Creo, but in that case, I'd press two letters and it might replace 6 mouse clicks for common operations. It saved a lot of time. In this case, it just seems to change the letters you press, but not shorten any sequences.
PS, I'm glad you got what you want, just trying to find the reason as I'm not seeing it:)
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Reading the changelog, thanks for fixing issue with flipping arrow of auxiliary view - that was really annoying.
Going through tech tip for high quality surfaces, I'm really grateful for that. I always pointed my colleagues to another sites (like Alias workbench) but having the ground rules summed up in Onshape tech tips is nice to see and I believe it will greatly help users, who are new to surface modeling.
Will you also consider "vocal" shortcuts soon?
However I also have some questions about the topics. some examples that i could not reproduce. Who/where can I correspond with about that? (e.g. i see a boundary surface to a kinked edge which in my attempts cannot be reproduced)
Nice update team! Thank you.
The Variables and Expressions course was great! Definitely recommend it to all.
Love that you included variable feature patterns in there. I learned quite a few helpful tips:
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At least I can continue to work as before, just without the option to customize shortcuts until then. (I'm totally fine with that rather than having to think where the key is on a Qwerty board)
Thanks Team
I am using an azerty keyboard and when I press the 'q' button (that writes the q letter) in onshape it selects arc instead which is the (a) shortcut instead of construction (q) shortcut. this wasn't happening before.
We're going through a SW upgrade to 2023 right now. It's taken a few hours, plus some testing for new bugs. Now we can push to the rest of the computers.. Man is that annoying..
It will be fun to turn around and tell them by the way Onshape updated too while you were mucking about with SW 😂
Note to self. Don't assume you can start a vacation week when upgrading solidworks on a Friday Morning..