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Improvements to Onshape - April 25th, 2025

cody_armstrong
cody_armstrong Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 228 image
edited May 2025 in New in Onshape
While we may be focused on stability and performance for this release and the next, we still have some exciting improvements to show you. When you are done here, make sure to check out the changelog to see what else we have been working on. Let's get started. 

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

REPAIR MANAGER IMPROVEMENTS

Improvements have been made to Repair Manager that allow you to forward propagate some references. The new Replace reference option allows you to replace a broken reference in the current feature, and propagate that replaced reference downstream to any features that use that reference.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/a4vn5aof8w

SHORTCUT KEY IMPROVEMENTS

You can now add Section view, Mass and section properties, and Measure and section properties to your shortcut toolbar. This gives you quick access to some of Onshape's most popular features. 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/jc08y15vbi

RENDER STUDIO IMPROVEMENTS

SCENE LIST IMPROVEMENTS

You will find new, more advanced, Scene list filters in Render Studio. These filters include the ability to filter by criteria like appearance and decals. This allows you to quickly filter the scene list. You will also find the scene list has been split and now has two panes. The top pane contains the scene geometry, as well as Transforms and Projectors, while the bottom pane contains Appearances.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/hq1kiprm3c

RESET APPEARANCE ON FACES

If faces have an appearance set in the Part Studio, and their appearance is changed in Render Studio, they can now be reset to the original Part Studio appearance via the Scene list or graphics area context menu. 



FOCAL LENGTH FIELD OF VIEW

You can now define Field of view by focal length. In the past, this was limited to angle.



LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS

NEW LOCALIZED TRAINING

You will find two new localized offerings available in the learning center. The Onshape Hands-on Test Drive is now offered with Japanese subtitles and text and Onshape Bootcamp is offered with Traditional Chinese subtitles and text.

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.

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

Comments

  • adrian_vlzkz
    adrian_vlzkz Member, pcbaevp Posts: 307 PRO

    Focal Length Control,🤓 yeih!

    Adrian V. | Onshape Ambassador
    CAD Engineering Manager
  • eric_pesty
    eric_pesty Member, pcbaevp Posts: 2,822 PRO

    Render studio split will definitely big for retaining sanity when setting up a appearances!

    Replace reference could be huge in some cases (assuming it works for "bodies")! Also hopefully coming to sketch entities soon?

  • Chris_D_Mentes_001
    Chris_D_Mentes_001 Member, csevp Posts: 128 PRO

    Loving all the little quality of life feature changes and fixes!
    Looking forward to even better performance!

    Is there any areas specifically that we will most likely notice significant improvement?

  • aeromorrison
    aeromorrison Member Posts: 88 PRO

    Solid release. I like the direction repair manager is heading.

  • billy2
    billy2 Member, OS Professional, Mentor, Developers, User Group Leader Posts: 2,181 PRO

    Propagating reference update is really nice and should speed repairs.

  • john_mcclary
    john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 4,093 PRO

    Forward Propagate looks promising

  • kees_bijker
    kees_bijker Member Posts: 171 ✭✭

    Repair manager sounds like I needed that like a year ago, that is super cool.

    Will have to experiment with that for sure. Thanks for a solid improvement.

  • EvanReese
    EvanReese Member, Mentor Posts: 3,028 PRO

    Replace references with propagate is awesome!

    Evan Reese
    The Onsherpa | Reach peak Onshape productivity
    www.theonsherpa.com
  • BanhammerFromPhighting
    BanhammerFromPhighting Member Posts: 2 ✭

    it update cool

  • Mansur_Zagitov
    Mansur_Zagitov Member Posts: 2 ✭

    Where can I find the field of view settings?

  • Paul_Arden
    Paul_Arden Member, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 228 image
    https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/116533#Comment_116533

    Those are for Render Studio only and are under the view cube menu there.

  • adrian_vlzkz
    adrian_vlzkz Member, pcbaevp Posts: 307 PRO
    edited April 2025
    https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/116536#Comment_116536

    Just realized this, I thought it was for Perspective View 🙃

    Adrian V. | Onshape Ambassador
    CAD Engineering Manager
  • christian_petty
    christian_petty Member Posts: 89 PRO

    I really missed the Ref Manager from Creo. Glad to see this here!

    Christian Petty - Mech. Design Engineer, Radian R&D
  • Eric_Wong
    Eric_Wong Member Posts: 24 PRO

    Great update, let's get to the point where we can forward propagate everything!

  • Chris_D_Mentes_001
    Chris_D_Mentes_001 Member, csevp Posts: 128 PRO

    Look not sure if it's just placebo effect but I'm deffinitally noticing a significant boost in processing speed while working. Loving the snappy feel

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