Improvements to Onshape - July 18th, 2025

karel_works

Great update, thanks for your awesome never ending work on this fantastic tool.

Configuration drag and drop is gamechanger (instead of move up endless times:))

shawn_crocker

I stopped reading after this

• The assigned default value for a configuration input is now displayed in the configurations panel
• Configured dimensions can be renamed 
• List values can be reordered by drag-and-drop
• Configuration inputs can be reordered by drag-and-drop 😍
• You can expand or collapse all configuration inputs in one click

Thanks you sooooooooo much for this! This has been a pain for me for years.

Continuing to read, Oh my god! I'm having trouble comprehending how so many pain points for me have suddenly been solves in one update. This is awesome!

STEG

Update 201 is one of my favorites! 🤩👏

bryan_lagrange

@Alex_Pitt I am experiencing the same thing. All my defaults are in inches. When I create a .dxf it defaults to meter. I change to inch it to inch but if I close the program it goes back to meter.

Is there a default setting for .dxf export that can be set?

chadstoltzfus

I kid you not when I say this configuration update will save HOURS of work on our end. We have 2 people who work on configurations full time and needing to update 50+ templates by individually moving a parameter up/down the list with one click at a time was a huge problem. That alone makes this one of the most impactful releases for us.

Alex_Pitt

@bryan_lagrange Don't think so. If you're talking about drawings (rather than exporting from a part studio) I think it defaults to the units specified in the drawing, but I don't know how to change those. They may be locked into the DWT file of your drawing border. Before export, when you change the settings away from "Use drawing units", it does seem to remember the change for subsequent drawings in the same Onshape document. So you should only need to do it once per OS doc.

My apologies. Onshape doesn't remember the export settings for particular drawings between sessions. Today, the export options were back to the default: "Use drawing units."

But yes, it could be useful to set defaults for this in your company settings or user account preferences.

Aidan_Benysh

Would love to see DXF export drawing units option default to a company setting or an export rule. Even if the default was set to workspace units of length. Always defaulting to meter seems a little awkward when we have the ability to change the workspace units.

josh_grasby942

Wow, this is a big one! Full spectrum of improvements both new and formerly requested. Great work everybody

Jaro_Lansink

Setting the DXF export units is a great new feature but the default units need to be controlled in company settings. The way it is now, this is now an extra step that you need to change in every new document, and if you happen to forget and export parts in meters, the parts will be manufactured to the incorrect size.

adrian_vlzkz

Can we allow for all Dimensions to be edited/renamed, not just configured ones.

bryan_lagrange

+1 to what @Jaro_Lansink posted.

Devin_Gödden

As others already said, please let us set a default unit for the DXF exports in the company settings or set it to the workspace units of length as default.

Conant_Custom

I do not see Straight Pipe Tap as an option in the hole tool. The "Straight Tap" option seems to revert all settings to UNF thread styles. As a lighting manufacturer, 1/8 NPS is one of our most commonly needed threads.

Jacob_Marble

The tapered pipe threads will be very handy for me. But, it looks like it is not yet supported for external threads. So we're only halfway there.

GregBrown

For those who want a long-form look into the panoramic rendering option now offered, I made a video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBhBbwUk8CM

test_user242

I can't find the metric straight pipe tap option for a part I've designed - do I have to create a new part or something in order to be able to access it?

Tinus

Pipe threads! Yes!

Urs_Schwarzenbach

regarding DXF Export: Please add a general setting to permanently export in millimeters. After this update we have to always change to millimeters befor export, it causes already some troubles, when we forgot to change it… In my opinion DXF's are unitless, so all you do is scaling it, which shouldn't be done in CAD.

Axel_Kollmenter

YAAAAAHAHHAHA FINALLY DRAG AND DROP MOVEMENTS FOR CONFIGS… OMG I´VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS ALL MY LIFE!"!!!!! Bye Bye right click- up - right click - up - …

yes yes everything else is cool too but finally i have more free time in my life again because i no longer have to make 4 million clicks on hundreds of configs.

ry_gb

Love being able to export from structured view. Can we add the ability to export multiple parts/drawings/etc. from this view as well? That would speed things up so much, especially since I have some of these parts scattered across different releases.

fred_burtt

I've got the same issue as @alex_pitt

Dxf export default to meters is a huge pain. I output flats for laser cutting all day, and this feature has been running interference very effectively.

Please make it default to the drawing units.

Everything else seems great, keep up the great work!

Larkin

I literally said "finally!" on every dot point in the configurations updates. TYSM

kev_keeg

Don't really know where this belongs - forgive if wrong place.

Suggestion: there should be a button which when pressed shows ALL functions UNDER ALL BUTTONS.

I'm not newbee - but i find myself spending lots of time trying to find a function i know exists - but don't know where!

thanks

fred_burtt

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/119448#Comment_119448

DXF export units now default to workspace units. SOLVED!

Thanks, guys!

bryan_lagrange

@fred_burtt I would check to make sure that it is not a document you have changed the default before. I just opened Onshape and made a new document to check and it still wants to export out meter even though my defaults are se to imperial.

fred_burtt

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/119585#Comment_119585

I did create a new doc this morning, and it used the workspace default (inches).

Just tried it again and it's back to meters. Spoke too soon!

EricMartin

We also need the dxf export to be fixed, or just put it back to the way it was.

SebastianMaklary

We also want the DXF export to be changed to default to the document setting. It is fine being able to override it but having to actively set the scaling of every export is unnecessary extra time and sources of error added. I just came back to work after the summer and this was the first thing my boss asked me to fix because they have had trouble with it for weeks now.