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OpenR2OpenR2 OS Professional Posts: 188 ✭✭✭
edited April 2016 in General
I like the way the onshape tutorial videos are set up. I would like to make a set of videos for Make magazine on how to model a specific project. Is there any way for users to put together tutorials with the same look and feel?

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    cody_armstrongcody_armstrong Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 213
    @OpenR2  You wont be able to embed the video in a page in the Document like we have done.  However, you can insert a video into a Document (which others can play) and sample models and share it.  You can even put the video first so its the first thing others see.
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    OpenR2OpenR2 OS Professional Posts: 188 ✭✭✭
    It would be really cool if you could. Enhancement request?
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    billy2billy2 Member, OS Professional, Mentor, Developers, User Group Leader Posts: 2,014 PRO
    It's best to post video on youtube and embed link into a forum post. This forum doesn't host videos for very good reasons like cpu I/O bandwidth issues. Posting a video, easy, upload to youtube and embed a link here in this forum.

    Videos can kill a website/forum. It's not internet bandwidth, but cpu bandwidth serving up the video. That's what youtube is all about.

    A plus is google analytics allowing you to see where people are coming from: Russia & New York City are the largest consumers of CAD content. California is really low and I don't know why.

    The problem with this forum is that it only gives you a day to edit post. It use to be an hour which was really frustrating.

    It'd be nice if the author could have infinite edit rights to a post and maintain a thread of videos about a topic.

    I suppose you can beg Lou, possibly bribe him with a new mountain bike and he'll make you a master editor.



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    OpenR2OpenR2 OS Professional Posts: 188 ✭✭✭
    Wasnt thinking about videos in respect to the forums...I was thinking about them in respect to collaboration in the documents.
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    billy2billy2 Member, OS Professional, Mentor, Developers, User Group Leader Posts: 2,014 PRO
    I went and looked at a tutorial video and they are nicely done. Cody does a great job with videos. I guess I should take the time and learn OS and watch the new videos.

    I'm trying to upload a video to a document:


    I made a mistake and uploaded a gig byte video, OS took it and displayed it. 

    If you become a solution provider, you can build a webpage and display it in a tab. This would mimic what OS is doing in their tutorials. You could navigate between tutorials and step through various documents. It could be a really nice user experience.

    Seems like you'd get more traffic if you posted in the forum.



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    cody_armstrongcody_armstrong Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 213
    @OpenR2 This has been brought up before and if I remember correctly there were security concerns with letting all users do this.  
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