Feature Ideas

ondrejholan

Hello,

I am in game industry and I started using Onshape for some types of modeling and I have ideas for features that would saved me some time.

- Sketchfab exporter for embedding to websites and sharing with people that don't have Onshape

- Support for OBJ, FBX formats

- Annotations which can be placed on model (something like Sketchfab annotations)

-Translation - Community translation like crowdin.com (I would like to help translate)
- Fast measuring tool in assembly and parts
- Ability to hide groups
- Drag&drop for inserting parts to assembly

lougallo

@ondrej_holan Please submit improvement ideas via the feedback tool in Onshape.  ? menu -> feedback for new features allows us to categorize and notify you when implemented.  I will soon have a way for you to post and vote on improvements.

jakeramsley

Can you elaborate on "Fast measuring tool in assembly and parts"?  Right now, we show measurements in the bottom right corner of the screen based on things that are selected in part studios and assemblies.  Is there something more you want?

_Ðave_

@JakeRamsley I'm afraid that measuring ±.01 is somewhat blacksmith work. I typically need to have a copy of the model open in mastercam to get a more accurate measurement. Or create a sketch to get ± .001 which usually may be close enough. I don't know what kind of work you all have in mind but I'm often working in tenths that's .0001 and not .1

Dave

jakeramsley

Dave_Petit said:

@JakeRamsley I'm afraid that measuring ±.01 is somewhat blacksmith work. I typically need to have a copy of the model open in mastercam to get a more accurate measurement. Or create a sketch to get ± .001 which usually may be close enough. I don't know what kind of work you all have in mind but I'm often working in tenths that's .0001 and not .1

Dave

I agree that we need a more detailed view for measurements, but I was responding to the idea of "Fast measuring tool".   

3dexter

JakeRamsley said:

Dave_Petit said:

@JakeRamsley I'm afraid that measuring ±.01 is somewhat blacksmith work. I typically need to have a copy of the model open in mastercam to get a more accurate measurement. Or create a sketch to get ± .001 which usually may be close enough. I don't know what kind of work you all have in mind but I'm often working in tenths that's .0001 and not .1

Dave

I agree that we need a more detailed view for measurements, but I was responding to the idea of "Fast measuring tool".   

SolidWorks is an excellent reference on how to be a measuring tool, and entities also provide information selected in the screen bottom as Onshape.

_Ðave_

@3Dexter I feel the reference @ the bottom of the screen is quite fast but not if I need to create a sketch and activate the dimension to get an accurate measurement. Otherwise I'm not quite sure what you are referring to.

Dave

stg434

I have logged a feature request along these lines.  I too do a lot of tooling related work so have "tenths" resolution is standard.  If there was a preference to select significant digits then we are a lot closer.

I use the SW measurement system but it feels a little clunky for many cases, I end up punching the "measurement type" buttons to get the measurement I need.  Probably the handiest "feature", as mentioned, in SW is the entity display in the lower right of the status bar but in contrast to OnShape the resolution is selectable.