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Improvements to Onshape - November 1st, 2024
NeilCooke
Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,648 
PART STUDIOS
THICKNESS ANALYSIS
A new analysis function enables designers of molded and die cast parts to measure how much material is distributed throughout each region of a part. Only native Onshape parts and mesh model types are supported at this time. Thickness analysis is currently only available for Onshape Enterprise users, but will be available for Onshape Professional and Onshape Education Enterprise users in the near future.SHEET METAL CORNER BREAK
The new Corner break feature combines Fillet and Chamfer features to remove sharp edges on sheet metal corners and corner / bend reliefs.EDIT CURVE
A new Edit curve feature allows you to edit an existing curve by selecting sketch entities or curves to apply a simplified approximation, elevate the degree, reposition control curve vertices, and/or planarize into any 2D plane and all downstream features update automatically to reflect these changes.DIMENSION ENTITY HIGHLIGHTING
Adding dimensions while sketching is now much easier to visualize.DRAWINGS
HOLE CALLOUT TEXT JUSTIFICATION
Hole callouts on a Drawing now provide more control over their appearance.DOCUMENTS
STRUCTURE VIEW
Structure view on the Documents page is now available for all Onshape Professional users. As a reminder, here is an overview of this great feature for navigating released product designs.GENERAL
CUSTOM KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS
All commands in Part Studios and Assemblies can now be assigned custom keyboard shortcuts.ACTION ITEMS
The Action items user interface has been reworked to make it easier navigate.FEATURESCRIPT
PERFORMANCE
The latest standard library removes the performance overhead of many of the FeatureScript wrappers around builtin functions.RENDER STUDIO
DECALS
Decals added to a Part in a Part Studio are now imported as an Appearance in Render Studio.
ISOLATE
New Isolate option for Render Studio Parts, Part Studios, or Assemblies. Right-click on one or more entities and select Isolate from the context menu. When Isolate is selected, all selected entities are viewable and all other entities are hidden in the graphics area.
RESOURCE VERSION INDICATOR
Resources, such as images used for backgrounds, now have a resource indicator to let you know if they are current or require an update.
RESET ALL TESSELLATION
A new Reset all tessellation option, available from the top-level Render Studio in the Scene list, allows you to reset any custom tessellation settings for all entities below back to Auto.
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.Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
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Wow this is huge one. Many game changers here.
I wish thickness analysis was available for all paid accounts. Does "will be available for Onshape Professional … in the near future" include Onshape Standard?
Curve editing is going to be a lot more fun now. I've been doing an insane amount of projecting curves onto surfaces and then manually rebuilding them with Bridging curves. I do hope that longer term the CV editing includes some NUV and falloff controls.
[edit to add:] I've been playing with Edit Curve for a few minutes while I wait for my main project to update to the latest version. I commented before with control point curve that having the Approximate feature be parametric was critical. Now that some of the best bits of CPC are live as Edit curve, indeed parametric Approximation is great. It creates a bunch of new workflows that I can only begin to imagine.
Sheet metal corner breaks, edit curves, and custom keyboard short cuts - Oh boy, have I been waiting a long time for these. Big time release guys, can't wait to try them out.
Juicy!
That edit curve looks good, especially the part where it keeps the curve ID! I'll have to try that one. Decals in render studio are going to be a big help (anyone who's tried to apply them directly within render studio will know what I mean!)
There are also two lines in the changelog that appear to be aimed specifically at bugs that we have been struggling with so I have high hopes these are going to be fixed!)
Great release! I'm excited about dimension entity highlighting (great quality of life improvement), edit curve, structure view, and sheet metal corner breaks.