Please publish your high-quality custom features!

ilya_baran · January 6

EvanReese · January 8

Thanks, @ilya_baran! This is on my list, but it's been a wild couple of months.

Matt_Shields · January 9

@ilya_baran, thoughts on multiple custom features in one document?

ilya_baran · January 9

@Matt_Shields I would say definitely fine if they work together (e.g. Neil's excellent mold tools and wiring tools), but if it's just a bundle of separate custom features, separate documents are best (so that for example, when you update one feature and make a new version, other features don't show up as out-of-date).

robert_morris · January 16

Thanks for the reminder @ilya_baran.

I got busy and forgot about publishing the mounting boss feature.
It is published now.

EvanReese · January 27

@ilya_baran
I'm creating custom tables in my Wires feature and Freeform Spline feature, which gives a warning I've been ignoring about it impacting performance, because I like that the table is just there for anyone using the feature (am I right to think that people would need to also add the table otherwise?). I can't publish those features since this is flagged as an error. Thoughts on the best solution? Should I just move the tables to another Feature Studio?

I'm also finding the pdf requirement a hinderance for some I've made. I know the real solution is to make a pdf, but my time is constrained such that I probably won't get to that, and I'd like to publish them anyway. I understand that the pdf requirement is meant to act as a filter for quality and completeness though, so maybe I'm just proving that it's working.

ilya_baran · January 28

@Evan_Reese
On the geometry.fs warning, the thing to do is to remove the geometry.fs import and replace it with imports of specific modules actually needed. For example, in freeform spline, you just need

export import(path : "onshape/std/blendcontroltype.gen.fs", version : "1746.0");

and that way you can keep the feature and table in the same part studio.

On the pdf requirement, the perfect is the enemy of the good -- at minimum just have some text explaining what the purpose of the feature is and any caveats -- it doesn't have to be pretty.

Thanks!

joshtargo · January 28

It my not be up to your quality standards, but it's my first featurescript, and for people making FRC robots I think it will be quite useful!

Hex Rod will draw a 1/2" hex rod between two parallel mate connectors. It allows offsets at the start and end, a rotation angle, and naming.

I'm not a programmer, so it took me half a day of struggle, but it's an accomplishment!

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/68cc6e7f44c7d45ead2a1b38/w/5c67626b11109a69231f9606/e/f5a54e138097299817bb6f7b

S1mon · March 7

With the emphasis on publishing custom features, can we get this page updated?
https://www.onshape.com/en/features/custom-features

It still has links to Beams and other obsolete or unnecessary custom features.

NeilCooke · March 7

S1mon said:

With the emphasis on publishing custom features, can we get this page updated?
https://www.onshape.com/en/features/custom-features

It still has links to Beams and other obsolete or unnecessary custom features.

On it.

Andre_Comella · April 22

Is there a template or design guide for the pdfs? I know it's not necessary for it to be pretty, but I'd like to have something that matches the others and looks nice, but graphic design is one more skill than I have time to learn right now

NeilCooke · April 22

Link to original template: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1i3SkgQDkU6agkvp3TDhOryWAhPL73LFbZ-2Y-iVnl90/copy

Please publish your high-quality custom features!

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