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Improvements to Onshape - June 28th, 2024
NeilCooke
Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,714 
As we head into the summer months you can be sure that the Onshape team will not be on the beach when there are awesome updates to deliver...
PART STUDIOS
REPAIR BROKEN REFERENCES
When upstream features or geometry referenced from other sources (such as Derived, Import or In-context features) are modified there is always the chance that a reference has been removed that a downstream feature relies upon. These broken references must still be resolved manually, but the new Repair view makes it easy to determine which references are missing.REALIGN MATE CONNECTOR TO FACE
Mate connectors can now be realigned normal to a face and patterned.SUPPRESS FOLDERS
Folders and all their content can now be suppressed and unsuppressed with the right-click context menu. This action overrides the feature and subfolder suppression state in the selected folder.DRAWINGS
CIRCLE AND POLYGON PROFILES FOR CROP VIEW
Crop views now have the same options for profile creation as Detail views. New circle and n-sided polygon profile options enable crop views to be more exact, especially around small part details or complex assembly layouts.OBSCURED EDGE TO EDGE CENTERLINES
The Edge to edge centerline tool can now add centerlines on cylindrical features when only one edge is visible or only one edge exists. This is useful in Detail and Crop views where a cylindrical feature is only partially visible.MEASURE TOOL KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
The default keyboard shortcut for the Measure tool ([; left square bracket) now also works in Drawings. Reassigning this shortcut to another key is a global change across Part Studios, Assemblies and Drawings.DOCUMENTS
MEASURE TOOL TOLERANCE
In the Measure tool, an asterisk (*) now indicates if a measurement is greater than zero but less than 10 nanometers for distances or 0.1 degrees for angles.VIEWING VERSIONS AND HISTORY
When a version or a history entry (the incremental changes between versions) is selected for viewing, a newly styled banner is now shown to make it clearer which actions are available.RESTORING VERSIONS AND HISTORY
When a version or history entry is restored to the active workspace or branch, effectively undoing all the changes above it, a new dialog prompts the user to ensure that the chosen action is intentional. The description in the dialog also makes it clearer what will be restored and where.FEATURESCRIPT
GET ALL ATTRIBUTES
Attributes in FeatureScript provide a powerful mechanism for adding data to entities within a context and then retrieving them later or using them as a filter, either in the same feature, a downstream feature, or even another context. The names of assigned attributes may be unknown if they were added based on some logic, or the feature was created by a third party, making them difficult to retrieve. To solve this issue, a new function, getAllAttributes, returns a map of all named attributes assigned to a single entity.RELEASE MANAGEMENT
RELEASE ALL CONFIGURATIONS
Configured Part Studios and Assemblies with a single list input can now have all their configurations released at the same time without having to add them to the Release candidate one by one.ENTERPRISE ANALYTICS
GOOGLE MAPS™️ INTEGRATION
Reports with maps indicating the location where a user has signed into Onshape now use the Google Maps mapping service for more accurate and up to date information.DOCUMENTATION
NATIVE LANGUAGE SEARCH
The search tool in the Help documentation will now accept keywords in the user's selected language.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.
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There are some interesting ones in here. I've played with supressing folders by configurations, which IS possible. However, what it seems to do is simply bring every feature into the configuration table. Its not the suppression of the folder itself that is configurable, more of a short-cut to supressing multiple features. I guess this prevents suppression conflicts, but I was hoping that folders, and folders within folders (which I did not even know you could do), and the ability to supress them by configuration might lead to the possibility of supressing a native feature by more than one configuration parameter.... It would seem not.
I'm not knocking the update, all updates are gratefully received, so thankyou - but we are still holding out for suppression by expression (like the Boolean by expression update the other month) which would resolve the above issue in complex configurable models.
Repair mode should be nice, might even be useful as an alternate to "compare" when you just want to look at two things side by side!
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REPAIR BROKEN REFERENCES
Looks incredible!Suppress a folder in a part studio, finally, yahoo!
Ugh. I haven’t had a chance to investigate, but yeah. The whole point of folder suppression would be to make configuration management easier. If that’s not solved now I really hope this is a step towards that.
I've been wanting Onshape to highlight a ghost of the previous feature location when fixing broken references forever.
Just like SolidWorks.
But leave it to Onshape to go one step further and show the original model with simultaneous view manipulation.
That's cool. And so much nicer to see the fully realized result of those selections at the same time as well.
I've been doing it the two window way and rolling back each one at time. This is going to be huge.
Well done.
The below improvement request is shown as complete, but it's not at all. Yes, we can select a bunch of features at once in order configure suppression, but it's not treating a folder as a container which is turned on and off.
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/12498/expand-feature-folder-functionality-suppress-unsupress
And as I keep banging on about, it would be X10 more powerful if this folder suppression (and suppression in general) could be controlled by an expression.
But putting center lines to isometric views will only do something for optics as long as the measuring / dimensioning in isometric views is not fixed.
Asterisk in measurement tool is also really cool. Now you don't need to click or hover over the number to see the actual result. Unfortunately I don't think it's good to show "within tangent tolerance". Firstly we don't know what is the G1 tolerance value and secondly clearly even a small difference (0.029°) will create bigger issue (0.031°) with simple 1 mm offset. One can argue that this is really small deviation, but true tangency is simply zero.
It's also possible to measure 0.000° with asterisk which is shown as 0.0000000° yet there's still some difference, which cannot be shown
Repair manager have potential, I like the idea and really like the secondary window, which is easy to access. Unfortunately current version is basically the same as Compare history with additional option to show selected entities and have synchronized view. I would like to see something like PTC Creo Parametric repair manager - there you have the option to evaluate broken references - some will be automatically updated (since the system knows), some you can manually relink and the rest can be deleted. Unfortunately we just have to select everything again for now, but I have hope.
I like the performance improvement for hatching. I had an issue in the past with six, simple intermediate rings which took over 3 minutes to complete. Now it's done in few seconds.
Also I would like to ask the community or anyone from PTC, what does this line in changelog means?
"Improved ‘Create selection’ for select chain (tolerance)". I don't see a difference, is there some slightly bigger tolerance introduced, so the chain/loop will always select all eligible edges?