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Some API-related feature questions…
kevin_coulson
Member Posts: 6 ✭✭
I’m attempting to build an AI Agent for Onshape. We’ve been building in some features through the RestAPI and things are moving along, but I saw this video
and was inspired to try to add some of these features - hide/show, select parts, etc. It got me thinking about a number of things I want to be able to do, so I’ll just list them out (maybe they need their own discussions):
- pull the current user selection,
- Toggle part visibility,
- Insert a standard content part
- Add loads/constraints for simulation
I’ve read that toggling part visibility (not to be confused with transparency) is not possible via featurescript, but there must be some way to modify this other than the GUI? Are there endpoints for inserting standard content? For simulation-related functionality? For user selection?
And if not - how else could I access this data? How does it happen on the Onshape side? There must be some way to execute this stuff…
thanks in advance for your insights!
Comments
User selection is read through client messaging
https://onshape-public.github.io/docs/app-dev/clientmessaging
Part visibility isn't something that is supported yet.
Inserting standard content is the same as inserting any other part, you just have to know what the path (document id and configuration) is for the standard content. If you insert something into an assembly manually, pull the getAssembly information, you can see it there.
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