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Measured Angle Variable - Feature Request
Aaron_Emerick
Member, csevp Posts: 9 ✭
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/21163/why-cant-i-define-a-variable-as-a-measured-angle
This forum thread indicates that this is already an open feature request, but searching here, I don't see it. So… Please add the functionality requested in the OP of the link. Thanks.
edit: Nevermind. I found it in the improvment request category that I didn't know existed until now :-)
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/20138/measurement-variables-for-angles#latest
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If you don't already have it, Measure Value by @Konst_Sh is very reliable and will measure just about anything you can imagine and turn it into a variable. You can add it to your tool bar by clicking the (+) button near the top of the screen while viewing that document.
And here are some other neat custom features: https://www.cadsharp.com/featurescripts/
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@MichaelPascoe I did add that FS to my toolbar. It works great! Thanks.
Needed an angle variable, works great! Thank you
This is not, what I expect to need a FS for. Measuring angles is very basic and should be originally provided!
@klaus_krämer Yeah I know, but in the end, you'll learn to love FS.
Everything I'm doing now is tied together with engineering formulas and many are in long cli interfaces (one liners in the interface). I should bite the bullet and included a FS in every document because it makes maintaining equations so much easier.
What I'm wanting is to extend FS to include more value with units. The one I'm after is liters/minute, (l/min) which doesn't exist yet.
I agree. angular measurements are not difficult and should have been included with the default measure tool. It would have only taken a few hours, if that, to add that functionality. But I get it, there are so many improvements and they had to stop somewhere for the sake of scope creep.
We also need a custom feature store so that all of the legit custom features can have a more official front to them. Having to dig through back ally's to find custom features is probably why so many people don't want to accept them as legit solutions; even though, if well written, custom features are just as legit as native features.
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@MichaelPascoe I'm starting to find it hard to organize even my own custom features for my team, let alone categorizing and keeping on top of all of the recommended scripts from other developers that we're using for projects. @Caden_Armstrong has fs.place and everyone has their own little micro repository of scripts but what we really need is a first party solution like the Steam Workshop pages or a Nexus Mods repository for people to publish to for visibility and discoverability of scripts.
there needs to be something. I vote for something