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Grasshopper/Dynamo in Onshape?
S1mon
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FeatureScript is an amazing feature of the Onshape system, but the barrier to entry is a little high. All the verbiage to get to the core of creating/manipulating geometry takes a lot of time to understand. If you don't use it all the time, it's easy to forget subtleties of the syntax and standard library. I'm also a very visual person.
I'd love to see a visual node-based programming tool like Rhino's Grasshopper or Autodesk's Dynamo in Onshape.
Here are some examples/links:
Grasshopper
https://www.youtube.com/c/ParametricDesign3D/videos
Dynamo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O80fzhqKC9E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlnn1ZtWqZY
I'd love to see a visual node-based programming tool like Rhino's Grasshopper or Autodesk's Dynamo in Onshape.
Here are some examples/links:
Grasshopper
https://www.youtube.com/c/ParametricDesign3D/videos
Dynamo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O80fzhqKC9Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlnn1ZtWqZYSimon Gatrall | Staff Mechanical Engineer | Carbon, Inc.
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I'm surprised that @Konst_Sh or @MichaelPascoe haven't posted anything about this, but there's a beta for "FS Node Studio" which is a node based editor interface to FeatureScript. I haven't used it myself, but it looks to be pretty much a 1:1 translation of FeatureScript into nodes. It's impressive to see this working.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZoc-8SqiG8
The 1:1 thing is good and bad. It means that in theory, the full power of FS can be available through a node based editor. At the same time, most of the things that make FS hard are still hard. In this video, Michael, who is probably one of the more knowledgeable FS programmers not working at PTC still stumbled with getting the queries to work the way he wanted in this relatively simple example.
I've written some FS successfully and I've gone through countless tutorials and guides on FS. It's still much more convoluted than I would like to do basic things that would be so straightforward in Grasshopper.
Simon Gatrall | Staff Mechanical Engineer | Carbon, Inc.
Watched the video and it's pretty cool! I'm excited to see the tool get a bit more fleshed out and all, but it's definitely interesting. I think the learning curve is still going to be pretty steep because, as you say Simon, much of the challenge is understanding things like queries, ids, contexts, instantiators, etc.
The Onsherpa | Reach peak Onshape productivity
www.theonsherpa.com
@S1mon soon to be announced. Waiting for approval from the Onshape app approval committee. I think they got swamped this week with the outage issues.
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You knailed it that it will be 1:1 featurescript std mapping, with some convention-based argument passing. But imagine that at some moment we will be able to create bindings to the user defined custom features and libraries. And the queries staying the glue, which makes the data flow from feature to feature, this will never change i guess. We can just ask for more robust and specific ones.