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FeatureScript User Community Spotlight
NeilCooke
Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,617
Have you written a cool custom feature in FeatureScript and want to share it with the Onshape community?
We have introduced a new section on the FeatureScript web page called User Community Spotlight where we can showcase impressive and imaginative uses of Onshape and FeatureScript. It doesn't matter how simple or complex your feature is - if it's a feature that would benefit some or all of the Onshape community then we are interested to hear from you!
If you are keen to show off your custom feature creation skills, please contact me by clicking my username above then clicking "message" on the next screen.
Happy scripting!
Neil.
We have introduced a new section on the FeatureScript web page called User Community Spotlight where we can showcase impressive and imaginative uses of Onshape and FeatureScript. It doesn't matter how simple or complex your feature is - if it's a feature that would benefit some or all of the Onshape community then we are interested to hear from you!
If you are keen to show off your custom feature creation skills, please contact me by clicking my username above then clicking "message" on the next screen.
Happy scripting!
Neil.
Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
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I don't think it qualifies as a flood, but I definitely have a few at this point -- all of which of course I think are cool, but only some of which probably actually are
http://store.parametricparts.com/products.html
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Yeah the 3D points one is not so good right now, but there are BIG improvements coming for it.
I have an in-development version that allows auto-creating profiles for you from the points ( to do this, I can automatically detect the sketch plane by fitting a plane to the points ). I'm also experimenting with ability to auto-match the number of points on successive profiles, so that lofts work reliably.
ps. Nice stuff @dave_cowden , as you get more and more stuff done your site adds great value for FS feature.
It can be done very easily-- just a website with a short description, a link, and the author. The main question becomes-- what qualifies a feature for inclusion. maybe what would work is a nomination and second process. Any feature that is proposed, and then +1'ed by two people who are not the author makes the list.
Would that be helpful? Then at least there would be one place to go to find all of the cool features. I know there are a bunch of really cool ones that Onshape has made, and also cool ones that others have made too.
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Nice idea and that might be useful if you caught the attention of script writers. Eventually, The list should be accessible directly from cad since that's the place where you need features.
I would also like to see small simple features which probably won't get much up votes but can be very handy for some segments - like simple thread maker can easily burry under 'bolt design studios'.
But still I hope I could ad value.
Sice there is a little bit if interest I will see what I can do.
This happened also with adding custom feature script functions into docs, there is already library accessible directly from cad:
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@dave_cowden and other coders
This is the place where you need to get your features. There should be area for beta and another for 'use at your own discretion - not tested for production use'. WITH decent description / tips for use
Let me know if i'm missing any.
https://github.com/dcowden/featurescript
Radial Pattern - circular pattern with option for radial second direction
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57acdd79e4b01d53a1caf1f5/w/71a5841922caf49ccdf9c965/e/0aa03a35bf16af9cd999451b
Parametric Surface - generate surfaces with equations
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57a62df8e4b03de4c9fcf154/w/f6d71f3d862b522902efcd68/e/ece65382fcd820281a9ee704
Multi Plane 2 - same as Onshape's Multi Plane but with a rotated plane array option
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/578d3ba3e4b0fe44cbff7c02/w/2d7c55bd5d5ed951e86c0b0c/e/566edf8fb019ed25389d7d92
https://github.com/dcowden/featurescript
I'll wait to see what others I get and then i will categorize them
"Adaptive Finger Joints -- create finger joints from overlapping geometry" has since been renamed and made into a separate document, here:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/578830e4e4b0e65410f9c34e/w/d04a088a0a8ab8361a2aa65c/e/7af109b2f1cead90850525ae
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
The FS page at https://www.onshape.com/FeatureScript is intended for listing custom features created by the community, for the community. The examples listed can be used for learning FS or to add as custom features to your toolbar for use in production work. I will add features to this page as they are submitted as described above (although I am a little behind on this), so there should not really be a need for a separate page. Of course you are welcome to maintain one if you find it useful.
The FS page is not intended for use as a commercial marketplace so all features should be free to use. Monetising custom features is something that we are looking into, but there is no timeline for this at present.
The only thing that is missing from the FS page is a request/vote system for custom features. That should probably be done through the forum for now. Any features that are submitted to me will be reasonably QA'd to ensure they are robust enough for use in production work, but all features are really classed as examples and no warranties are implied.
Hope this helps.
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Seems out of place, is there any way to turn it off?
Thank you for your very useful information.
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