Improvements to Onshape - December 16, 2015

lougallo

Onshape was recently updated and this will be the first of many releases without the BETA label.  Last week we announced the commercial version of Onshape along with our private BETA launch of the App Store.  A few statistics from our Beta program:

• Over 10,000 users participated
• 400,000 hours of modeling performed
• 4,000,0000 model features created
• Imported/Exported 390,000 files
• Created 325,000 STL files

Soon the Onshape App Store will be widely available offering partner solutions in a number of categories:

• Simulation
• CAM
• Rendering
• Content
• Design
• Import/Export
• Productivity
• 3D Printing 

If you would like to be considered for the App Store Private Beta, Sign up here!  

Here are some additional highlights of the recent update:

1. NEW Replicate - Automated mate utility in Onshape Assemblies to copy and populate components.
   
   https://youtu.be/SFPQ3Whso50
   
   
2. NEW Detail View envelope - Fully associative detail view.
   
   https://youtu.be/jlXeKfCD_9M
   
   
3. NEW Datum Symbols and GD&T  - Add datum and geometric dimensioning and tolerancing support in Drawings.
   
   https://youtu.be/qSTuFJLTCUE
   
   

On behalf of Onshape, I would like to thank all of you that participated in our Onshape Beta and Pre-production programs!  The amazing feedback and forum discussions have helped us get to this point and we will continue the discussion far into this commercial release.  Happy cadding!  ~Lou

Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in documents created before the date of this update.

christopher_quijano

GD&T! Thank you Onshape!

pete_yodis

That replicate functionality is super slick.  Nice present under the tree.  

shashank_aarya

Wow! Fantastic release. Replicate, GD and T awesome!

viru

Replicate and GD & T are fantastic release. Thank you Onshape team

fastwayjim

GD&T-errific!

brucebartlett

Some great new features ie. replicate and GD & T as well as subtle changes . I noticed now when I select a part in the part studio all of that parts features are highlighted in the feature tree, very handy as trees and parts lists grow.

michael3424

That replicate feature will come in real handy.  Nice update!

philip_thomas

Lest the readers here think that @brucebartlett is writing his own code, has access to a future version or is simply drinking earlier in the day than the rest of us, what he is actually referring to is a subtle change to our coloring and highlighting schemes that now show a primary and secondary component. 

Example 1: I edit an extrude feature. The Extrude in the FM gets the primary highlight and the constituent sketch (that is sometimes absorbed in other CAD systems) is highlighted as the secondary (light gray with a blue underline).

Example 2: I highlight a component in an assembly that is buried three sub-assemblies deep in the product. Starting from the top level sub-assembly that contains the selected part, each sub-assembly is highlighted with the secondary color and so on down to the selected part which receives the primary highlight. 

Make sense?

dennis_20

@philip_thomas You ARE speaking for yourself regarding your not having started drinkninninng yet today.  

3dcad

I noticed replicate feature few days ago and gave it immediately proper test run.

The tool is awesome, real time saver!

Couple of things for future:
- Automatically fix orientation when using for mirrored faces
- When selecting face where is multiple same diameter holes with different depth, feature should pick just the ones with same depth as the original.
- Possibility to recognize hole groups, for example if hinge connects to 2x 5mm holes which are 32mm a part in x - it would be nice if feature could lookup such groups and insert subassemblies with multiple mates. 

michał_1

Hold on did I missed something?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1anIjr023E
Exactly yesterday I was working Onshape-Rhino, I don't have any Rhino export/import options?

cody_armstrong

michał_1 This is my mistake, this capability was removed for that update.  The video should not have been available.  I apologize.

Hopefully very soon we will have this.

3dcad

øyvind_kaurstad

It's been a while since the last public update now. When can we expect more goodies from the Onshape team?  :-)