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Sooooo then… PlanesPointsCoordinateSystemsDirectionAxes
OR PPCSDAs for short 😆
maybe Mate Datums might be more descriptive of what they are.
A couple of AI suggestions… origin anchor, genesis frame, datum origin, prime locator.
isn’t a mate and a connector kinda the same thing?
Nah a mate is a pairing, and a connector would be the application that brings the two together. Like Tinder.
Named Views in Drawings is ducking ground BREAKING! I am so excited to show this off to my boss!!
Also Assembly mirror is extremely well executed! Bravo development team! Certainly a testiment to your strong foundations on user interface simplicity X
Mirrored assemblies is mind boggling. With Arena PLM could you really control a design and manufacture a product into a production environment and control the life cycle of a product? I think this the 1st system that could possibly do it. Could you push changes through and update all supply chains, fixtures, product packaging? Basically everything while maintaining a quality system? It'd be fun to see it in action and implemented.
Like this?
Originally, Mate connectors were only used for mates, hence the name, but they've come so far since (and more to come). We can't think of a better name so all suggestions are welcome!
Is this the death knell for the plane old plane?
@NeilCooke
Best name would be Viral Connector🤣
I think plane ninja might work. That way plane purists know there is a surgical option. While also reminding that plain planes going the way of the dodo. 😂
:sigh: this is how rumors get started. We have no plans to get rid of planes in Part Studios.
Would like to see mirrored parts that are derived back to the part studio they started in instead of a new parts studio. Is that possible?
I don't agree.
The Mate connectors are kind of a simplified version of a coordinate system.
You can not use all planes and axis of the coordinate system.
On top there is an issue if you want to realign or move the Mate connector you can not rotate along all axis and it takes a few, not intuitive movements to achieve the new orientation.
In my opinion it would be a large benefit if the mate connectors would be a full corrdinate system with 3 selectable planes and 3 selectable axis. And if you could use all 6 degrees of freedom to move the mate connector and its orientation.
What is the reason that mate connectors are not a full coordinate system? Maybe I oversee something.
I think is my favorite update so far in more than 8 years of using OnShape. So many amazing and useful features,
Mirror implementation looks incredible!
Configure Sketch Pattern I have been asking for for years!
Named Views in Drawings - where have you been all my life!
Can't wait to put these to use, I have models with thousands of parts that would have saved me soooooo many hours with these tools!
Assembly Mirror is saving so much time, I just love it.
Named Views in drawings is also fantastic…..what an update, thank you Onshape.😀
So happy to have mirror in assemblies, but I'm having an issue with sub-assemblies. When I change their mirror state to "transform", the parts are not in the correct orientation and none of the placement types seem to change anything. Seems like they should just be rotated as an assembly keeping all parts in the same orientation as they are in the sub-assembly. In the example below the cylinder rod tool plate has flipped 180 degrees.
Am I missing something??
Sometimes coming into the office on Monday is a great thing! Assembly mirror is amazing! And by the looks of it, Onshape has indeed nailed the implementation. Looks to have loads of control in all the right places. 🤩. Hoping for mirrored sheet metal; to be able to include there flat pattern as well. 🤨
Another huge update! Assembly Mirror looks great, can't wait to try it out
It would be better if the Assembly Mirror maintained Active Sheet-metal
Yeah. Assembly mirror is one I've been waiting for. Great!
But we should also mention folder drag and drop. That's one of the small improvements that make everyday life a little easier. :0) Even though many believe paper drawings are out of fashion, illustrations are not, and the use of named section views will help a lot in assembly instructions and user manuals. I'll certainly be using this.
This update is a big leap.
With assembly mirror, still no winners yet:
As someone who designs aircraft that involve lots of complex angles on re-used components with symmetry, I'm super excited about this release. Mirrored assemblies with part re-use has been very tedious thus-far. I'm excited to give it a stress test.
The named views and drawing usage and BOM flow-through has immediate utility for my team as well. The other updates are all also solid and help to continue rounding out Onshape.
Well done!
Sneaky shadow update I noticed, there are more frame profiles included in the Onshape Libraries now like construction lumber:
interesting! Seems worth mentioning.
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I stumbled on the Lumber profiles last Friday, but I think it was before the What's New was posted, so I wasn't sure.
Looking at the change log, I don't see anything about the Lumber profiles, but I do see this curious item:
"Improve Bezier feature to be more consistent with the Spline feature."
Anyone know what that means?
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Looks like they improved the sketch workflow for those. Interestingly Escape still works for bezier and now also works for Spline. While both right click menu confirm now works. I believe right click confirm bezier just erased all your hard work. one or the other did that and if you escaped one or the other it would erase your work. Very annoying. and very important it got some attention.
Having escape confirm splines and beziers seems counter intuitive since escape is used to cancel so many things in all software including other sketch entities in onshape.
Assembly mirrors is huge! Thanks a lot!
and I'm sure this will be solved soon:
Wanted to use it today only to find my active sheet metal part wasn't active any more… I guess @Derek_Van_Allen_BD's lefty-flip is still not decommissioned then.
Folders and nested folders is a legacy from The early days of Microsoft window's. It makes no sense in a database driven Onshape.
A better way to sort documents would be using tags and maybe nested tags like a table of contents.
always look at the end product of our design work the spare part catalog
Ex Tesla truck , if you put all assemblies and sub-assemblies in folders it would be a gigantic tree usually 10-12 levels
Referring to my discussion "name and part number convention" there must be be a smarter way of doing it. No folders
Folders and nested folders may not work for you, that's fine. Tags do exist in Onshape by the way. Nested tags would be cool.
BUT we find folders essential. Don't step on one user to satisfy another. Nobody said you needed to use folders.
Thank you
I find folders really useful partly to organise into different Clients. I do think that Labels should be visible in the Documents Tab like they used to be a few of updates ago.