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Improvements to Onshape - November 21, 2025

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  • john_mcclaryjohn_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 3,992 PRO

    @MichaelPascoe What is render cad? an AI image enhancer?

  • Robbie_LillquistRobbie_Lillquist Member Posts: 2 PRO

    From 30 seconds of playing around, Graphics Preferences is awesome!

  • MichaelPascoeMichaelPascoe Member Posts: 2,671 PRO
    edited November 24

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    @john_mcclary Yep, with emphasis on preserving the cad data (geometry, color, design intent).
    I co-developed it with a friend of mine. We are officially launching next week. But I can get beta access for anyone interested.

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  • john_mcclaryjohn_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 3,992 PRO

    That's cool, is it going to be free or limited per/month deals?

  • Derek_Van_Allen_BDDerek_Van_Allen_BD Member Posts: 366 PRO

    @MichaelPascoe you know what's hilarious is I've been experimenting with taking photos of real objects and running them through Nano Banana to make images that look like a CAD viewport because there are good AI models for generating CAD from a screenshot.

  • jelte_steur_infojelte_steur_info Member Posts: 567 PRO

    No more scrolling through long a wide range of columns with (un)suppressed features in a configuration. long live dynamic suppressions!

    (not that this should be applied to multiple parts in a partstudio like this, but this WOW will help with this issue for sure!!!)

    Happy and excited,
    Jelte

    dynamic suppression in groups.gif
  • john_mcclaryjohn_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 3,992 PRO

    @jelte_steur_info want to clean up my fastener config table now? 😉🤣

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  • MichaelPascoeMichaelPascoe Member Posts: 2,671 PRO
    edited November 25

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    @john_mcclary It will be a monthly sub, new users will get a few free render tokens for testing. Our target audience is professional CAD users who have a need for photorealistic renders.

    There is a link to the pricing page on the main site:

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  • Derek_Van_Allen_BDDerek_Van_Allen_BD Member Posts: 366 PRO

    I fed nano banana the basketball render and a viewport of the pumpkin model from the latest rendering competition and it spit out this:

    Gemini_Generated_Image_o2uwo4o2uwo4o2uw.png

    But only after it completely misunderstood the assignment and output this:

    Gemini_Generated_Image_6uepjv6uepjv6uep.png
  • MDesignMDesign Member Posts: 1,254 PRO

    Lol that's impressive. Baskin ball? Pumpket ball?

  • Dusan_ChadimDusan_Chadim Member Posts: 1 PRO

    Hi All,

    GRAPHICS PREFERENCES

    Looks fine, long awaited functionality … can be improved by possibility of modify the tangent edges boundary curves as well in same way as the main line witdth.

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  • Alex_PittAlex_Pitt Member Posts: 74 PRO
    edited November 25

    Thanks for the update. Some great stuff here.

    Love dynamic suppression, drawing view alignment and sketch inferencing!

    Looking forward to exploring AxF in Render Studio.

  • ben_druce929ben_druce929 Member Posts: 5 PRO

    OMG EDIT PERSPECTIVE FTW!!!!!

  • FG_BaasFG_Baas Member Posts: 8 PRO
    edited November 26

    Why is nobody mentioning the drawing rotation and alignment?! I have been struggling with this from day one.

    Can I also ask for alignment of drawing views by bottom or top edge? I was working on a patent drawing last week where I had several assembly states of an object able to extend vertically, where views of these states were next to each other on a drawing. In that case I would have liked to allign by bottom edge to keep the 'base' stationary.

    Aligning drawing views could also be done by snapping to other object borders, like we see in office apps right now when moving images. Then they won't be fixed to each other when dragging around, but his way you won't have to add any buttons.

  • john_mcclaryjohn_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 3,992 PRO

    View rotation has been around for a while, I think they just moved it on the menu.

    I just wish it were persistent. So, when you have a part that's modeled on an angle in the part studio, but want it flat in the drawing. You have to delete all the child views, then re-align vertical/horizontal then re-create and dimension all the child views. I wish it would re-establish the rotation after updating the angle in the part studio.

  • ry_gbry_gb Member, csevp, pcbaevp Posts: 58 PRO

    Agreed. That's the way I've seen it behave in other CAD packages. It's weird that once you create a child view, the parent view becomes locked and can't rotate anymore.

    Ramon Yip | glassboard.com

  • PeteYodisPeteYodis Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 564 image

    @ry_gb We have a separate improvement for rotating views and forcing the rotation of the dependency chain of other views - or not.

  • ry_gbry_gb Member, csevp, pcbaevp Posts: 58 PRO

    @jelte_steur_info did you have to set that up per feature or can you batch it?

    Ramon Yip | glassboard.com

  • jelte_steur_infojelte_steur_info Member Posts: 567 PRO
    edited November 26

    you can batch it using folders. But create or remove, not edit the rule that determines the suppression (yet?)

  • chris_barlowchris_barlow Member Posts: 3

    Has anyone else been experiencing problems when exporting DXF files? They will export, but I keep getting errors when trying to open them with a different program… e.g:

    The following error was encountered while reading
    in ARC starting at line 47530:
    Premature end of object
    Invalid or incomplete DXF input -- drawing discarded.

  • MDesignMDesign Member Posts: 1,254 PRO

    Try a different different program. No issues opening in AutoCAD or sendcut send

  • sergey_gosergey_go Member Posts: 5

    Технический английский вариант:

    I would like to request that the tolerance numeral height be made slightly smaller than the dimension numeral height.

  • lorenzo_richmondlorenzo_richmond Member Posts: 2

    I am super excited about the iPad AR Scan and Snap feature!

    MOBILE

    SNAP CAD TO REAL GEOMETRY IN AR VIEW

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