Split Panel Feature

Caden_Armstrong

This split panel feature has been one of my favourites of the past year to work on. The combination of a really cool data structure, and an interesting implementation of point manipulators have resulted in a feature I would describe as "playful". Clicking a blue dot adds a split, a red dot remove the split. The extra cool part? The splits aren't limited, you can add as many as you want - with any level of complexity. This feature made me rethink the options for user experience in a custom Onshape feature.

One thing I have struggled with is how to rewrite the feature into a generic use case. I'm not sure how it can be helpful to a wider set of users. So I'm just leaving it essentially as a demo. Hopefully it will inspire some new workflows, or you can use it to show your team the great potential in Onshape.

Try it out here

MichaelPascoe

Using the point manipulators to activate an operation looks pretty responsive.
I could see something similar being useful for curve splitting or even a quick part slicer. @EvanReese's ffs has something similar.
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S1mon

This is a cool UI.

I could see a version of this where instead of dimensions, there's a ratio.

I could also see wanting to have a gap added at each split for tolerance reasons.

For cabinetry (and other things) being able to quickly split a panel into multiple equal pieces with equal gaps would be great.

Derek_Van_Allen_BD

@S1mon the sudden realization that I need to make biscuit joinery amalgams for some of our parts that we never annotated on drawings before because it was too annoying to draw.