Improvements to Onshape - January 12th, 2024

robert_stiles

Display states in publications is a big help for us. Thanks Drawing Team. 

Dean_Gardner

Been waiting for the offset curve on face for some time.  Thank you! Can't wait to use it in anger.  Will certainly speed up my workflow now.

Alex_Pitt

Very nice update! I've reordered my custom properties already, and tried the Decals which work well. Assuming they're limited to either planar or cylindrical surfaces. The offset curve looks very powerful and the new filtering will reduce the headache of managing multiple branches.  Love that view-only users can now access assembly display states. Thanks again! 

jonathan_stedman

DECALS - Just trying them now

- 1st question before going too far - will they appear in Rendered images?  At the 1st attempt, they don't appear in the Render Studio image of the part or assembly.

Are they meant to or is this for the future?

Simon_Kozin

The DERIVED feature improvements are a amazing! This has been needed for so long, thank you! 

BrettKuenkel

Reordering Custom Properties is a fantastic improvement and one I have been looking forward to for quite sometime!!!  

S_Regula

When a decal is added, can/will it show up as a BOM line item?

Tru7h

New features are fine. But would ANYONE here not trade all of the above for basic functions like built-in thread creation?

NeilCooke

S_Regula said:

When a decal is added, can/will it show up as a BOM line item?

No, but if it's a label, create a thin part and add the decal to that. Then it can have its own part number.

emagdalenaC2i

Great release!!
Keep up the fantastic work throughout 2024, Onshape development team!

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Benjamin_Strauss

What are the plans for future additions re: construction geometry? Specifically, construction points, planes, and axes would be excellent. Also, construction geometry inside of assemblies would vastly improve my life! Lastly, in-place mates would be a game changer for me.

paul_masser

Can date format be change to follow GDP guidelines e.g. 16 Jan 24?

john_mcclary

Massive Update!
Not sure how I missed the notification!

• New Decal feature for parts (planar and cylindrical faces)!!
• New Offset curve feature (on faces/surfaces)
• New nested feature list for Derived and Custom features in Part Studios
• New filter in the version graph to hide branches without workspaces
• Support reorder of custom properties (ie. Properties dialog order)  YES!!!!!
• Support section views of a detail view in Drawings
• Support where used of a part when a part studio reference is inserted in Drawings
• Support adjusting manual centermark location in Drawings
• Added Display states feature to the View only toolbar (including Publications)
  
• FeatureScript: Improved performance for processing derived part studios

So happy for property reorder!
I only use 5 or 6 properties, and I always have to scroll somewhere in the middle, and all the way to the bottom.
This is going to save a bunch of time!

Very happy for decals
Thanks @S1mon for your decal notes and observations!

I still haven't received any notifications from Onshape closing out the IRs.
But there are two tentative IRs on the Bingo list now:

Hole Feature Renames Itself — Onshape
textures and appearances like solidworks — Onshape

romeograham

Looks like me and @sebastian_glanzner are getting the closest for now! So exciting!

lougallo

S_Regula said:

When a decal is added, can/will it show up as a BOM line item?

This is something we have written up and we have been thinking of tying it to items where uploaded data (images, pdf, docs etc..) could be associated to items so they can be added to the bom in a nice way.. We could leverage that in decal in the future.

steven_van_luchene848

Thanks!  section view from detail view allready being used ;-). 

don_williams909

Decals!  Woo-HOO ! ! ! !  I've been needing this for awhile.

Kevin_Cowles

Benjamin_Strauss said:

What are the plans for future additions re: construction geometry? Specifically, construction points, planes, and axes would be excellent. Also, construction geometry inside of assemblies would vastly improve my life! Lastly, in-place mates would be a game changer for me.

Mate Connectors can be used for all of the above! Point, plane, axes, and more, can be defined Explicitly in Part Studios or Assemblies, and are very useful with Derives as well. This is a great article on the many ways to use them: https://learn.onshape.com/learn/article/all-the-ways-to-use-mate-connectors

sebastian_glanzner

I love the new update with decals:

sekar_engg

when will we ever get the bending list table for  sheet metal ?

john_mcclary

I just made my own, it's really easy to do.

you can start by duplicating mine, then update the .csv for your needs
this creates a feature on the tree, so you can set it once, and all sheet-metal following will also follow this size.

FS:Sheet Metal Bend Table | Test (onshape.com)

To use it, just select the Bend Table feature and choose your size


all it does is create variables you can later use in your sheet-metal feature

if you want to have specific standards for sizes, such as guarding is 18ga, frames are 7ga, etc.
then you can check the "custom name" box and that will add a prefix to the variable names
here it will create #Frame_thickness and #Frame_bendRadius rather than #thickness and #bendRadius


under thickness, just enter #thickness
and for bend radius, just enter #bendRadius



If you want more sizes then download the .csv, add your sizes
then edit these areas in the code

john_mcclary

sebastian_glanzner said:

I love the new update with decals:

Very nice!

roryaronson

DECALS!! At long last!! 🙏 Thank you so much Onshape for listening to your users and continually improving the product. You have truly made Onshape invaluable to us all.

jonathan_stedman

sebastian_glanzner said:

I love the new update with decals:

Nice work Sebastian .  Have you managed to get it to Render in Render Studio?  I had a brief attempt,but think decals don't get imported.

sebastian_glanzner

@jonathan_stedman @john_mcclary
Thanks for the nice words.

I just tried and loaded it in a RenderStudio, but the decals were not imported.

jonathan_stedman

sebastian_glanzner said:

@jonathan_stedman @john_mcclary
Thanks for the nice words.

I just tried and loaded it in a RenderStudio, but the decals were not imported.

Lets hope the Render Studio guys are on the case     They have a lot of catching up to do.

TeamPrototype

That decal tool is going to be super useful!

romeograham

The decal can be projected onto a non-planar or cylindrical face!

1. Apply the decal to a planar face.
2. Use Replace face to replace the face with the decal with another face (needs to be a condition where "Replace Face" works).
3. Voila! Your decal now lives on a compound surface!

I've tried it with Fill Surfaces and extruded splines.

Try it here: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/96a83219bf7b919958620e99/w/0867145c3d4822c257f6f7c9/e/05792ad0758fbb0ab6769906?renderMode=0&uiState=65a99310919fa30219417171

S1mon

@romeograham

Can confirm. Brilliant find.

This is ultimately a silly work-around. Hopefully Decal will be updated in the future to be more flexible in what kinds of faces it's willing to deal with. It's interesting to note that the decal is just projected normal to the original flat surface onto the 3D surface. 

I created a test where I used the same decal and the same boundary surface and I replace flat surfaces at two different angles. If you edit the "replace face" features you can see the before/after at the same time and see how the recycle symbol is being projected.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/90a5f4a2e4c82c3112b45338/w/b4113935addb002bd1cda68d/e/db6161dcadb1e7413d83e653

john_mcclary