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Custom Feature: Keep Part
Derek_Van_Allen_BD
Member Posts: 435 PRO
I can't believe I never posted about this one.
You guys know Delete Part? This feature is nothing like that.
Use it on really gross imports with a billion objects you don't care about. Probably don't use it for any other reason.
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What happened to the meme names?!?
Ramon Yip | glassboard.com
@ry_gb I have decided to be professional and make my scripts discoverable for other users. I even published this one with a user manual.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | MeddlerGood idea! It would be nice, if the built-in delete part feature had a reverse gear, though:
To toggle between delete and keep.
@martin_kopplow it's such an obvious addition to the feature that I suspect that it doesn't for philosophical reasons. Using a keep part feature enables a lot of disgusting workflows that are otherwise covered by Derive or using an assembly. I do think the only true valid use case for a feature like this is import cleanup.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | Meddler@Derek_Van_Allen_BD Sure. And those who have done extensive cleanup will value this, I'm sure. It got better now, but I used to get cars with all detail, and I mean all, when I still was in ###### and on my previous CAD. We built a computer that could take it in in one piece, specifically for the cleanup job, and at times it took the weekend to download, then hours to load, and then it took me days to complete the cleanup. If people would now throw such tasks at Onshape, only to keep the hood emblem, that might in fact create some problematic overhead. Though Onshape can't take a whole car in one chunk, anyway, this feature is to be used with caution. Still, it might be very helpful in cases where we can't get anyone on the client side to create a made to measure data set for us, and we need to pick the parts relevant for the job from the mess ourselves.
Rest assured. I promptly saw it and chuckled.
Ramon Yip | glassboard.com