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Improvements to Onshape - May 24th, 2018
cody_armstrong
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 215 
This update is a very exciting one. We have been working for sometime now on a new version of Onshape that gives companies tremendous insight into their design process. Our CEO Jon Hirschtick announced this new product, Onshape Enterprise, yesterday, and in this update we'll take a tour of some of its functionality. However, this update isn't just about the new Onshape Enterprise features. As always, we've added many new core CAD features that have been highly requested. Let's jump in.
Projects and Role-Based Access Control are two defining features of Onshape Enterprise. These new features make it easy for administrators to have consistent project structure, and easily add the right roles for each project.
ANALYTICS AND REPORTING
The Analytics and Reporting available in Onshape Enterprise give company owners or admins unprecedented visibility into the productivity of their engineering teams.
ACTIVITY
The Activity page in Onshape Enterprise, makes it easy to see the latest progress in the company. It can be filtered by project, user, or Document to get even more detail.
PARTING LINE DRAFT
You can now define draft by a parting line. In the past, the draft command was limited to planar draft.
MATE CONNECTOR IMPROVEMENTS
The center of slots or empty regions now show as mate connection points. This is especially important for those that need to mate to the center of slots or similar shapes.
ALIGN DRAWING VIEWS
You can now align drawing views either horizontally or vertically with a selected edge of the model. This can be helpful if the part was modeled in an odd orientation and the view needs to be rotated in the drawing.
MULTI-LEVEL BOMS IN ONSHAPE DRAWINGS
You can now insert Structured Multi-Level bills of material into Onshape Drawings. In the Insert BOM command, under BOM type, you will see the option for "Structured Multi-Level." Callouts referencing a part in a subassembly will use properties of the part (if you are using properties in your callouts.)
CENTERLINE IMPROVEMENTS
Centerlines will now snap to other annotations in Onshape Drawings. This can be useful if your drawing has many centerlines that need to meet together.
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 Onshape Changelog.
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.
ENTERPRISE FEATURES
PROJECTS AND ROLE-BASED ACCESS CONTROLProjects and Role-Based Access Control are two defining features of Onshape Enterprise. These new features make it easy for administrators to have consistent project structure, and easily add the right roles for each project.
ANALYTICS AND REPORTING
The Analytics and Reporting available in Onshape Enterprise give company owners or admins unprecedented visibility into the productivity of their engineering teams.
ACTIVITY
The Activity page in Onshape Enterprise, makes it easy to see the latest progress in the company. It can be filtered by project, user, or Document to get even more detail.
CAD IMPROVEMENTS
Improvements to core CAD functionality, available to all users.PARTING LINE DRAFT
You can now define draft by a parting line. In the past, the draft command was limited to planar draft.
MATE CONNECTOR IMPROVEMENTS
The center of slots or empty regions now show as mate connection points. This is especially important for those that need to mate to the center of slots or similar shapes.
ALIGN DRAWING VIEWS
You can now align drawing views either horizontally or vertically with a selected edge of the model. This can be helpful if the part was modeled in an odd orientation and the view needs to be rotated in the drawing.
MULTI-LEVEL BOMS IN ONSHAPE DRAWINGS
You can now insert Structured Multi-Level bills of material into Onshape Drawings. In the Insert BOM command, under BOM type, you will see the option for "Structured Multi-Level." Callouts referencing a part in a subassembly will use properties of the part (if you are using properties in your callouts.)
CENTERLINE IMPROVEMENTS
Centerlines will now snap to other annotations in Onshape Drawings. This can be useful if your drawing has many centerlines that need to meet together.
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 Onshape Changelog.
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.
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Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
Love the parting line draft feature
PD: Small companies also make projects
Eduardo Magdalena C2i Change 2 improve ☑ ¿Por qué no organizamos una reunión online?
Partner de PTC - Onshape Averigua a quién conocemos en común
- Fixed keyboard shortcuts and dialog focus (select other)
Select other continues working with the key ñ on the keyboard in SpanishEduardo Magdalena C2i Change 2 improve ☑ ¿Por qué no organizamos una reunión online?
Partner de PTC - Onshape Averigua a quién conocemos en común
Thanks for the parting line improvement, time to crank out some plastic parts!
Owen S.
HWM-Water Ltd
There are no issues in the status https://status.onshape.com/ and nothin in the history https://status.onshape.com/history
Eduardo Magdalena C2i Change 2 improve ☑ ¿Por qué no organizamos una reunión online?
Partner de PTC - Onshape Averigua a quién conocemos en común
HWM-Water Ltd
HWM-Water Ltd
Owen, it might be different if we were mold designers.
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
HWM-Water Ltd
I'm sorry you are having bad experience using Onshape. When you experience bad performance please file an issue via "?"->"Feedback" tool describing your experience in as much detail as you can and sharing the document where you experience the bad performance with support. This would allow us to figure out what is causing the issues.
Your location, latency, bandwidth and fps metrics look good. I see you are using Chrome on Linux. You may be having some graphics driver issues or may have poor WebGL support. As Lana said, please open a support ticket and we can try to improve your experience.
Twitter: @BryanLAGdesign
I could kiss you for center of slot mate
In fact I might.. you better lookout!
It's like you read my mind with the centerline snaps, and view orientation!
no more 6 place angle measurements before placing views!!! woot!
Everything is awesome, wish I could use the enterprise stuff for our company, looks like you put some hard work into that
maybe one day when it's more than just me in onshape at work ;p
While an improvement over the prior method, that required determining and entering the amount of angular rotation to create the desired orientation of a primary view for a part modeled out of plane with respect to the global coordinate system (GCS), it does not address the problem of being limited to creating a primary drawing view that is based on (tied to) the GCS.
Furthermore, it does not address the problem of a simple orientation change of the part (with no features changes to the part) within the Part Studio invalidating the drawing of the part.
I found a method to work around the limitation but it requires creation of another Part Studio, using the derived feature in combination with Mate Connectors and a Transform feature. Shouldn't have to resort to doing this.
Eduardo Magdalena C2i Change 2 improve ☑ ¿Por qué no organizamos una reunión online?
Partner de PTC - Onshape Averigua a quién conocemos en común
Seems great update, can't wait to get another project to try the new features out!
But what was the big difference, just adding roles & people or also something related to storing project data?
First, I understand that for big companies Onshape offers a series of usability tools, analitycs, graphs, reports, etc. and that Onshape integrates them into a tool like Onshape Enterprise.
Small companies do not really need project roles ... Why? because generally the CEO is also the designer, or the entire purchasing department, etc. There are too many shared roles and very few Onshape users in small companies.
But almost all medium-sized companies that I know manage projects. And, yes ... they need roles in their projects.
It is true that they can use teams and share folders. But the project roles would facilitate the work a lot.
Also, if these project roles are linked to the Onshape revision management flows.
On the other hand, the option of guest user I think would be highly appreciated for companies that have Onshape Professional.
Eduardo Magdalena C2i Change 2 improve ☑ ¿Por qué no organizamos una reunión online?
Partner de PTC - Onshape Averigua a quién conocemos en común
I know I'd love to have dashboard telling me why I am not getting optimum speed from Onshape, I seem to be regularly checking my internet speed, refreshing my browser, because things feel slow, a dashboard showing all performance metrics would be perfect to help diagnose a problem fix it and get speed from Onshape.
Twitter: @onshapetricks & @babart1977
HWM-Water Ltd