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Improvements to Onshape - April 24, 2026
mlaflecheCAD
Member, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 206 
This update introduces a significant new cloud-to-cloud integration between Onshape PCB Studio and Altium 365, along with enhancements across CAD, MBD, and Data Management. It also includes a comprehensive new course to help you get started with CAM Studio, along with additional updates to the Learning Center. Let us proceed without delay.
PCB STUDIO
ALTIUM 365 INTEGRATION WITH ONSHAPE PCB STUDIO
Onshape PCB Studio connects directly to Altium 365 via cloud-to-cloud integration, eliminating the need for locally managed files. Electrical and mechanical teams exchange board data, components, and design changes in real time using Altium credentials, and reusable MCAD libraries populate automatically from shared components. See Altium integration for more information.
CAD
MOVE MULTIPLE ROUTING CURVE CONTROL POINTS SIMULTANEOUSLY
Editing routing curves is now faster and more efficient, with the ability to select and move multiple control points at once using a precisely positioned triad. This enables cleaner, more consistent edits with fewer steps and greater control—especially for complex routing geometry.
HIGHLIGHT PART WHEN EDITING IN-CONTEXT
When selecting a part in an assembly and choosing Edit In-Context or Switch to Part Studio, Onshape will now open that Part Studio with the chosen component selected and highlighted in the graphics area and Parts list of the Part Studio. This will save time by eliminating the need to find the component you wish to work on.
REDUCE MOUSE MOVE HOVER HIGHLIGHT
In Onshape’s continued effort to increase performance for complex models; now as you move over geometry rapidly, Onshape will delay highlighting that geometry. This will both make it less distracting and more performant as every entity hovered over no longer needs to appear on screen.
MODEL-BASED DEFINITION SUPPORT FOR CENTERLINE DIMENSIONS IN SKETCHES
Model-based definition supports centerline dimensions in sketches and provides full support for all sketched hole and shaft tolerance types.
DATA MANAGEMENT
SUBFOLDER SHARING
Administrators can now share subfolders to users and teams with settings independent of their parent folder. This opens up new collaborative and organizational opportunities for companies, their designers, and even external participants of the design process.
When shared into a subfolder in this way, end users who do not have access to the parent folder can access these shared folders via the “Shared with me” button in the left-hand navigation of the Documents page.
ADD TO RELEASE FROM OTHER DOCUMENTS IN A VERSION
It is now possible to add additional elements from other documents to a Release candidate, even when the Release candidate was initiated from an existing version. You can select from which version of these other documents the revision will be created in. Once approved, a revision is applied to all elements in their selected versions.
DRAWINGS
HIGHLIGHT HOLE CALLOUTS ACROSS DRAWING VIEWS
You can now hover over hole callouts that utilize quantity on drawings to highlight all of the holes that the annotation references in Onshape.
RENDER STUDIO
LIVE NAVIGATION
Render Studio continuously updates the rendered view as the camera moves, improving interactive performance and providing immediate visual feedback as you frame a shot or adjust the composition.
LEARNING CENTER
INTRODUCTION TO CAM STUDIO
We are excited to announce that the Introduction to CAM Studio course has been updated! The refreshed introduction provides clearer guidance, streamlined navigation tips, and an overview of new features to help learners get started quickly and confidently.
LEARNING CENTER UPDATES
We have begun updating all Learning Center articles. The following have been completed so far, each translated into French, German, Spanish, and Japanese:
- Mating Basics
- Advanced Mating Techniques
- Parametric Variables vs. Configuration Variables
- Onshape Standard Content
- Onshape FAQ
- Enterprise FAQ
- Onshape Arena Admin and User Guides
- Sharing Outside an Enterprise
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. Mobile app interface updates occur via the Apple App Store or Google Play Store and happen in the days following the update.
Comments
WOW.
I really was not expecting the Altium integration to be so soon or so powerful. Really looking forward to trying this out with my new team.
Also very excited to see all the other updates including the routing curve editing.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
Solid updates! Especially excited about moving multiple routing curve control points and reduce mouse move hover highlight.
Subfolder sharing and multi-document releases has come up a lot lately, glad to see those update. Should make a lot of people happy.
Experts in Onshape Automation - Custom Features and Integrated Applications
Very nice, context part highlighting and delayed mouse hover delay are particularly useful for me.
It'll make handovers easier of teams!
The highlighting features are awesome, thank so much!
Thank you for adding subfolder sharing! I've been waiting for that one :)
This is a real banger of a release! Subfolder sharing has come up often for my clients and is very welcome. Multi-point selection for Routing Curve is a big one for me (though I'd like the ability to rotate collections of points, not just translate). The Altium integration rightfully gets the headline spot. That's a BIG deal for interdisciplinary collab!
The Onsherpa | Reach peak Onshape productivity
www.theonsherpa.com
The Altium integration looks really nice!
Could it be that the update deleted shared informations in documents.
I got a lot of calls that they couldn`t find their work!
The docs just shared with me or the engineer, no team or other ones any more!
Just the admins can see everything.
Is there a easy way to share many documents at once?
If its working, it is a great value. So I didn`t need to share version in a pub.
Not sure why, but the highlight delay does not work for me. Neither for previously created nor newly created assemblies. Any ideas?
You may not be moving fast enough? It seemed the same for me at first, but you do notice it when you zip across the model.
I assume it will be more noticeable on slower hardware. If you are getting snappy results. I think that's just a good PC that doesn't need to reduce the highlighting as much. ??
One thing I forgot to mention in the Altium connection video is that when you are using Onshape Professional or Enterprise, your Administrator needs to enable the connection in the integrations section of the company settings before it is then viewable in your personal account settings.
Now that the framework is there for not highlighting items, is it possible to press a key sequence to turn off highlighting entirely? That would be helpful for presentations, when we just want to point to areas and have the mouse be the focus. I had a helpdesk request for this a few years ago, I may try to dig it out and reply to it.
Those bounding boxes were driving me insane. Render Studio Live Navigation😍 is much appreciated.
Going to go take the Introduction to CAM studio right now!
Ty Onshape team!
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I just noticed that the "highlight all holes" of the callouts doesn't highlight across views (when using "count by part"). Not sure if that's supposed to be the case or not…
When are Sketch Blocks and Part Studio instancing coming? These are features that are still missing and 99% of the user base would welcome them and use extensively. While the announced updates, although really cool, are kind of niche.
Subfolder permissions are extremely welcome! However I did have a client reach out because some of their team lost permissions to certain documents and I assume it was related. Fixing it was as easy as re-sharing, but could be inconvenient in a large org. Anybody have a way to find and fix permissions issues that is more of a bulk action? I assume that would involve the API.
The Onsherpa | Reach peak Onshape productivity
www.theonsherpa.com
Yes… sketch blocks please (begging you…) 😉
Yessss, Spanish Learning center!
3 weeks have past…..Time for an F5 party!!!
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