Improvements to Onshape - June 12th, 2017

NeilCooke

In this latest update we have focused on the improvement requests sent in by you, our customers, and the overall performance and stability of Onshape - specifically drawings. Customers who have submitted tickets that are addressed by improvements in this release will be notified in the coming days. If you have improvement requests, please submit your ideas here. Let us know what you think.

WELD SYMBOLS

Both ANSI and ISO weld symbols can now be added to drawings. The sheet standard you use determines the weld standard and dialog layout. Spot and seam welds, second fillet, symmetric and staggered welds are currently not supported, but will be added in a future update.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/2s63u2flqn?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640

DIMENSION HIDDEN LINES

Sometimes, adding dimensions to hidden lines or adding centerlines to hidden holes makes a drawing easier to understand. Now, in Onshape drawings, you can if you wish (even if it is not good practice). 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/f9ncr6mwv1?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640

SHEET METAL BEND NOTES

Now when you create a drawing of a sheet metal flat pattern by either right-clicking the flat pattern view of the model or by selecting the flat pattern filter in the Insert View dialog, bend notes are automatically shown next to each bend line. 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/2ave0kmve1?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640

DRAWING VIEW PRIORITY

You can now set the priority of a drawing view for both viewing and selection. This is useful if two drawing views are on top of one another and you want to select the view below. This priority setting also applies to images so you can place views on top of images to create effects like watermarks.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/g7ojbjraf5?embedType=async&videoFoam=true&videoWidth=640

DRAWING THUMBNAIL

Drawing thumbnail images are now displayed on the Documents page and also in the tab previews inside a Document. This will make it much easier to determine which Document or tab you need before opening it. The image displayed is of the Drawing when it was last modified or closed, so for multi-sheet drawings you will see the sheet you viewed last.




Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and let us know what you think!  

Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new Documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in Documents created before the date of this update.

terry_pipkin

The bend notes is a great improvement but would be better if we had the ability to edit so we could add the bend line dimension.

brucebartlett

Great Improvements, Drawings are getting better all the time. Thanks

PeteYodis

@terry_pipkin Are you perhaps referring to adding the bend allowance to the note, or something else?

3dcad

Nice update for 2D people.

terry_pipkin

@PeteYodis currently the bend note reflects bend up or down and the bend radius. We typically note something like (bend down 90 deg @ 1.00" o.s.) so it would be a big help to edit to reflect the bend line dimension. Only because our break press operators act as if they can't read but 1 view of the drawing. It may just be wishful thinking on my part but figured it wouldn't hurt to suggest.

NeilCooke

3dcad said:

Nice update for 2D people.

You could change your name to 2dcad?

janos_horvath

Receiving notification about Onshape updates and reading excitedly what new toys we've just got reminds me of my childhood.
Thanks, and keep up!  

Andrew_Enslow_3DS

I like the drawing updates. I just started working on a drawing and the linking to the original document is like a breath of fresh air compared to Solidworks. And these improvements are good to have as I enter Onshape Drawings, Thanks! 

spiritrider

Great Job with the updates!   I know dimensioning hidden lines is not popular with the purists, but I am loving the elimination of  multiple views because of it. Good Job!

3dcad

@NeilCooke
It would take at least hydraulic press to flatten me into 2D

https://youtu.be/SnFYYNqwznY?t=15s

ps. Did you know you also have an 3D alter-ego? @NeilCooke3D

Admit it, you were expecting my comment when you wrote that 2D description

MotorcycleWriter

Could these updates be why it no longer exports dxf and dwg files? 

NeilCooke

@MotorcycleWriter it's working ok for me. If you are having issues please raise a support ticket. 

NeilCooke

3dcad said:

Did you know you also have an 3D alter-ego? @NeilCooke3D

Ah yes, him! We don't talk anymore.

john_mcclary

Excellent work on ALL of your drawing updates!

Was hoping to see blocks or insert sketches, but these improvements are very valuable to us.

john_mcclary

terry_pipkin said:

@PeteYodis currently the bend note reflects bend up or down and the bend radius. We typically note something like (bend down 90 deg @ 1.00" o.s.) so it would be a big help to edit to reflect the bend line dimension. Only because our break press operators act as if they can't read but 1 view of the drawing. It may just be wishful thinking on my part but figured it wouldn't hurt to suggest.

OnShape made it exactly like SW, (sorry for comparing you to such a garbage program OS), but when we dimension bend lines, it is based of the process and order of the bend, rather than a datum point or ordinate dimension. So to have @ 1.00... my question would be .. 1.00" from where?

So if OS does add that feature, please make it an option we can also turn off.

michael_hasson

Great job on the weld symbols!  Dimensions to hidden line also extremely useful.
Many thanks
Michael

Tarmo340

Thanks for the great job adding welding symbols, this really was urgent issue! Please keep going with drawings improvement ,thanks!

brian_jordan

"Drawing thumbnail images are now displayed on the Documents page." A nice little addition to speed up my workflow. Thanks.

SP_de_Bruyn

Hey guys thanks for the weld symbols. We here at Thuthukani really appreciate it. 

keith_waggoner

 What do you do if you do not want Drawing thumbnail images  displayed on the Documents page? how would you display a certain part studio or assembly ? Thanks for the hidden lines dimensions, A big help.

NeilCooke

@keith_waggoner the thumbnail shows the last tab you modified. 

Paul_J_Premakumar

@keith_waggoner : There is an existing improvement request to designate which tab's image is used as the document thumbnail . See https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/25086#Comment_25086 . Feel free to up vote, if this is something you want as well. Thanks.

keith_waggoner

Thank you.

a_dandler

Nice updates.

Are dual dimensions in already, or coming soon?

I have a client who's willing to switch to Onshape, except that they use dual dimensions on all their drawings.  (I've tried to convince them to choose either metric or inch for each drawing, but... no luck.)

Thanks

PeteYodis

a_dandler said:

Nice updates.

Are dual dimensions in already, or coming soon?

I have a client who's willing to switch to Onshape, except that they use dual dimensions on all their drawings.  (I've tried to convince them to choose either metric or inch for each drawing, but... no luck.)

Thanks

@a_dandler Dual dimensions are in the plans.  We know they are important for many drawing users.  

bryan_lagrange

Can we get the ability to switch the bend call out for the angle by switching the complimentary angle call out from the outside to the inside of the bend? When making a bend shown in the image I need to call out 135 degrees on my draft to be entered in the Trumpf press brake.


Thank you

lana

@bryan_lagrange
Please make an improvement request for it. Would you want the complementary angle interface to be a per model setting / per workspace/ user preference, all of the above?

bryan_lagrange

I would have to go with user preference. You would want a global setting so you can set it once and every time a bend direction is called out, it would be how you need it.

bryan_lagrange

Here is the link to the improvement request:

https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/6723/user-preference-setting-for-sheet-metal-bend-call-out/p1?new=1

bert_fourie

Thank you very much for the welding symbols!