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Improvements to Onshape - November 21, 2025
mlaflecheCAD
Member, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 195 
This update brings new CAD and Simulation tools, multiple improvements to Drawings, new appearance options for Render Studio Advanced, and expanded collaboration with Onshape Enterprise users with the all new Slack connection!
CAD
DYNAMIC SUPPRESSION
Create logical expressions to determine when a feature should be suppressed or unsuppressed. Dynamic suppression can also be used in configurations.
ANGULAR VELOCITY LOAD (CENTRIFUGAL LOAD)
Support for applying Angular velocity loads in Simulation, enabling centrifugal force analysis on rotating components.
SHOW MAX/MIN SIMULATION VALUES
Simulation plots for Linear static simulations can now highlight maximum and minimum result values directly on the model for faster interpretation.
GRAPHICS PREFERENCES
New Graphics preferences in the Camera and render options menu let you set line width, shininess, specular color, and field of view. These options are especially useful for surface modeling. Preferences persist across all documents and can be reset to their default values.
LEVEL OF DETAIL IMPROVEMENTS TO GRAPHICS
If the level of detail of a part at a specific zoom level requires representation at a higher level of detail, and that higher level of detail is not available, it will be generated on demand, resulting in improved graphics without a reduction in performance.
DRAWINGS
VIEW ROTATION AND ALIGNMENT CHANGES
The Rotate view functionality has been moved to a right-click submenu where users can specify horizontal or vertical rotation by selecting geometry from the view. A new Align views option allows users to align views to one another through a right-click menu, with the ability to specify vertical or horizontal alignment.
DRIVING DIMENSIONS SUPPORT FOR TOLERANCE, PRECISION, AND OTHER PROPERTIES
Driving dimensions in Drawings now support custom decimal precision, tolerances, and Format painter formatting for faster, consistent detailing.
SKETCHER INFERENCING
Sketching in drawings now includes inferencing to help align and snap geometry more accurately.
DATA MANAGEMENT
WARNING WHEN DRAWINGS REUSE INSTANCE PART NUMBER AND ONLY ONE IS SELECTED FOR OBSOLETION
A warning is displayed when only one of several items sharing the same reused part number is marked obsolete. The items must also be created as part of the same Release candidate in order for this notification to appear when creating the Obsolete candidate.
COLLABORATION
SLACK INTEGRATION FOR ONSHAPE ENTERPRISE
Slack integration with Onshape Enterprise allows for Release candidates, Tasks, and Comments to be bi-directionally shared, so information flows to where team members work. Slack commands can be used to view the top 20 most recent documents and the top 10 most recent task lists directly from Slack.
RENDER STUDIO
AXF APPEARANCES FOR RENDER STUDIO ADVANCED
Adds support for AxF measured materials, enabling physically accurate scanned appearances to be applied to Render Studio models.
NAVIGATION SPEED IMPROVEMENTS
Improved pan, zoom, and rotate performance in Render Studio, especially in scenes containing a large number of instances (1000's).
MOBILE
SNAP CAD TO REAL GEOMETRY IN AR VIEW
AR View now supports snapping CAD geometry to real-world features to improve alignment when overlaying designs on physical objects.
LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS
INTRODUCTION TO ONSHAPE ASSEMBLIES
The Learning Center now features the Introduction to Onshape Assemblies course where you can master the essentials of Onshape Assemblies. Explore the Onshape mates that bring assemblies to life by defining their degrees of freedom. Discover how to easily position and adjust assembly components with the intuitive triad manipulator. Reinforce your knowledge through hands-on exercises that help you master positioning, mating, and structuring assemblies.
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. Mobile app interface updates occur via the Apple App store or Google Play store and happen in the days following the update.
Comments
Dynamic suppression is gonna come in real handy. Been waiting for that for awhile. It's on the list with dynamic ranges for configuration variables.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | MeddlerDynamic Suppression and all the drawing improvements look great!
Dynamic suppression is going to open up some interesting workflows. You can set suppression using a variable, which means that you can use up stream features to control down stream features. Like a measured variable output could control the suppression of a later feature.
Custom FeatureScript and Onshape Integrated Applications
Dynamic suppression multiplies the power of Onshape configurations - very exciting.
I can check this myself, but does view alignment work between views that are technically unrelated - like two different parts or configs of a part, or a part and an assembly?
Slack integration is great. More integrations like this (Google Chat, MS Teams, etc.) will be necessary to hit the majority of potential companies out there, but Slack is probably the best place to start.
Graphics preferences solves some issues which have been frustrating for many many years. Hopefully being able to make some lines super lightweight will also go into drawing mode at some point. The lower limit there is artificially too thick for my tastes.
Interesting to see angular velocity re-appear. I know it was introduced recently, but it magically got pulled and now it's back.
Rendering, drawing constraints, and view improvements are very welcome.
In the change log, there's this item: "New Explore Onshape (Free, Trial and Discovery plans)". I did some digging on the web site and can't figure out what's new here.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development Specialist | Open For Work
Would it be possible to add a "Save Preset" option for the Graphical Preferences? Great update, love the dynamic suppressions!
DYNAMIC SUPPRESSION…. This is a big one for us.
Thankyou
In playing around with the new Graphics Preferences, some observations:
If you have tangent lines set to phantom, the line width control doesn't do anything, which is frustrating (a bug in my mind). With the regular "tangent edges visible" set, the line width affects the tangent edges.
If you really want to kill the specular highlights, set the "shininess" to 1% AND set the highlight color to something dark. With some subtle tweaks of the highlight color you can get some really nice soft smooth lighting.
I'd really love to see some better materials and realtime HDRI lighting in the browser without needing to resort to Render Studio. I know this is possible. Here's a link to a share of a Plasticity model.
I'm very happy to finally be able to set FOV in Onshape. This improvement request from 2015 can finally be retired.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development Specialist | Open For Work
All of these updates look solid and I can't wait to try them out. Dynamic Suppression looks amazing, and I'm happy to see some of the interesting graphics controls. I can seen Onshape progressively becoming a very solid technical illustration tool. With a few small wrapping features, things like assembly instruction illustrations and sequences are within easy reach. Couple this with the cloud architecture, publications, etc. and we're very quickly opening up a whole new domain of use cases.
CAD Engineering Manager
The change log also shows, "Support import of PVZ files". This one is a big deal for me! Thank you Onshape!
I'm testing it now.
You spoil us. The improvements to tellesation and graphics are huge. Thanks for another great update!
The next step would be to integrate the shininess and specular color into appearances, and add features like roughness. Super basic on the fly rendering within part studios and assemblies would really help with some of the industrial design work I do.
Thanks again.
Dynamic suppression is a game changer, so excited about it!
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Thanks for the feedback and suggestions (as always) @S1mon - we've been looking forward to expanding some of the possibilities regarding graphics. It remains a focus…
And if by "something dark" you mean
#000000then yes that's the ultimate specular highlight killer :)@GregBrown In this case, I was alluding to grays that are close to black, but with a slight warm or cool caste depending on the colors of the model. I did try Black #000000, but that, as you say completely kills the highlights. I'm sure that there are cases where that would be helpful.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development Specialist | Open For Work
If my wife wasn't sleeping, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, I would have SCREAMED out my chest in excitement over Dynamic suppression !!!!! I have wanted this since month 1 of using onshape, and it has been at the top of my list since.
Onshape team holy mother of God! I love you! Marry Me!
dynamic suppression just make configuration even better, great update.
Dynamic suppression and field of view are two I've wanted for a long time and they both look like great implementations!
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Hi there, Where is a link to LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS >
INTRODUCTION TO ONSHAPE ASSEMBLIES?
Hmmm…. kinda liking the graphics customization. got kind of an anodized look going on.
Question: Shouldn't the shininess scale be the other way. if I want to make something 100% shiny I'd think the reflection would grow, would it not?
Yeah I'm not sure what "shininess" is supposed to mean in this case…
It sort of makes sense if it's the opposite of roughness where more shiny means more a "point" reflection, but it also seems to get brighter at low values, which doesn't make sense…
Maybe it's a combined slider that cranks up the brightness as the the reflection gets more diffuse?
I think I like it best at really low value but with a dark highlight (like a 444444)