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Improvements to Onshape - February 21st, 2025
cody_armstrong
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 220 
We are ready with our third release of the year! This update includes improvements to core modeling, drawings, Render Studio, and more. Let's dive in.
CAD IMPROVEMENTS
WRAP ON CONICAL FACE
You can now apply a Wrap feature to a conical face. In the past, this was limited to cylindrical faces.REPAIR MANAGER IMPROVEMENTS
In addition to accessing the Repair manager from the Versions and history panel, you can now fix broken references in 2 alternate ways. Right-click on the failed feature in the features list or from the failed reference in the feature dialog. In both cases select Edit healthy moment to open the Repair panel with the feature’s latest healthy moment.COPY/PASTE CONFIGURATION INPUTS
You can now copy and paste configuration inputs in Onshape. This makes building configurations with similar inputs much easier.HIDE SHEET METAL FORM FEATURES
You can now hide the Form feature sketch that is visible in the Sheet metal flat view.DRAWINGS
BREAK DIMENSION AND SHOW DIMENSION LINE DRAWING PROPERTY
You will find two new drawing properties for Break dimension and Show dimensions lines in the Drawing properties panel.RENDER STUDIO
OPENVDB VOLUME APPEARANCE
Render Studio now supports OpenVDB volumes with a new OpenVDB volume appearance. Use this appearance to create volumetric effects like smoke, fog, and water, without needing to model complex geometry.FEATURESCRIPT
IMPROVED LAMBDA FUNCTIONS
FeatureScript now has improved lambda functions. This syntax change was highly requested and makes code more succinct and easier to read.ENTERPRISE
GLOBAL IMPORT PERMISSION
You will find a new "Import files" Global permission that allows you to define who in your organization can import files. By default, this is set to all users in the enterprise.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 changelog.
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Conical wrap is a nice improvement. I'm still looking for more general wrap or "flow" along surfaces, but this is a step in the right direction.
I'll have to see how the repair manager change works in practice. It seems like a really good thing.
The copy config inputs seems like it is a baby step towards having an easier way to have configurations ripple down assemblies, subassemblies and parts. I definitely went through a lot of pain doing this in a more manual way in the past, so this is better.
Overall, there are some useful little things here.
Nice! Healthy moment repair and lambda syntax looks great.
Is there any dedicated 3d sketch tool?
Copy config inputs is a wonderful improvement!
"Edit healthy moment" is such a killer functionality! Onshape was already miles ahead of other CAD for being able to go back and see what a model looked like when it worked, but making it this accessible and easy is so good.
Independent Onshape Consultant | Industrial Designer
There's a feature request for it here:
Can you edit healthy moment if the reference for a sketch was deleted or moved? It didn't give me any suggestions on how to unbreak the model.
I love the "Edit healthy" approach. Can't wait to test it out over the next few days.
Insert Image- Import is not showing up on the bottom anymore- Is there a different way to insert an image?
Yeah I think "edit healthy" is going to be my favourite!
There were definitely many times where I would just fix things manually because I couldn't be bothered to bring up the repair tool (for simple enough things) but I think I will use it a lot more now!
Copy paste configuration inputs should also save quite a bit of time when setting up configured multi-level assemblies (still have to "reattach" the inputs though)…
I never even knew there was a repair tool
Another awesome release - and thank you Onshape developer teams! The Global Import Permission is a huge help for us by limiting redundant COTS imports by different users (one source of truth). We will provide access to a Team who is versed in all the proper search methods to ensure it isn't already in the database (not everyone always fills in P/N, etc.)
There's some pretty solid stuff here and I am especially happy with the default break dimensions option, copy config and repair history button.
Absolutely love the focus on foundational improvments over new features!
Copying configurations up the assembly stack is simply brilliant. I didn't know I needed it.
So we could do something like spraying water?
This would be a very big deal to me.
Copying configurations is indeed a step in the right direction, but I would love to add the global "variable studio" to the configurations list.
So that I can change the configuration number, and the whole variable studio values change. So this would be like a configuration for the entire document, not just individual parts.
Currently the appearance available which uses the OpenVDB data is focused on the effect of density so it is most suitable for volumes where that is the main factor (e.g., smoke, dust, exhaust etc). OpenVDB itself can hold many other types of data beyond density which potentially in the future could be used for things like water. If by spraying water you mean as in from a hose then you'd likely also need motion blur for this to be realistic which we don't currently support (thought the underlying technology we use for rendering does).
Note that we don't have any tools for creating the OpenVDB data itself in Onshape, so the actual simulation which would create the data would need to be done externally (e.g. in Blender, Houdini or other tool that outputs OpenVDB). For less specific requirements there are also some libraries that contain OpenVDB content.
oh wow! 'edit healthy moment' is awesome! surprisingly simple, but I reckon its going to be very useful!
I especially appreciate the improvements to wrap, configurations, render studio, and feature studio. Oh wait, never mind.. the entire update is gold! =P
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Should be easier with this new volumetric option.
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Perfect timing on the volumetric effects. It was a huge pain to do the steam without this update.
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How should we be thinking about Wrap on conical surfaces? I find that the feature works, but the output isn't useful to me in its current state. I would want the baseline of the text following the split line rather than wrapping around the underlying conic
Still waiting for search by creator feature ngl
Apologies if I sound a tad impatient but I posted this in "Questions" a few days ago, got a few views but nothing in response yet. Thanks in anticipation
You're not the only one. Maybe we're both doing something wrong.
I think you need to assume wrap works like a strip of paper, it cannot wrap in the way you describe without wrinkling or distorting the paper. It needs to lay flat along the surface with no distortion. Therefore, any wrapping function like this that preserves the original sketch will have this behavior. Otherwise you're asking the sketch to stretch to fit the underlying surface, which is not what 'Wrap' does.
If you need this functionality, you should use the custom feature surface text.
That makes way more sense. I guess I do want some sort of hybrid between Project and Wrap, then? i.e. Some distortion to keep the text horizontal. Otherwise something similar to Flow Along Surface in Rhino. The main reason for my need is that something being mathematically correct doesn't mean that it looks visually correct.
You have to think of wrap as using the sketch as a piece of paper. A strip of paper cannot wrap in the way you describe without wrinkling or distorting the paper. It needs to lay flat along the surface with no distortion. Therefore, any wrapping function like this that preserves the sketch will have this behavior. Otherwise you're asking the sketch to stretch to the underlying surface, which is not what 'Wrap' does.
If you wrap your sketch onto a cylinder matching the diameter of where along the cone you want you sketch, and then project that onto the cone, it should give you what you describe.