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First FeatureScript 🎉 “Braille Surface Text” + quick licensing/LLM question
roman_jurt190
Member Posts: 50 EDU
Hey all - my first FS (with basicly no coding experience) and I’m pretty excited!
I built it with Gemini 3 Pro in 2–3 hours but had to fiddle around quite a bit to get the dots working on spheres.
It places Braille-dots on curved surfaces to support accessibility to all kinds of objects.
BRAILLE SURFACE TEXT : https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1fc1fc5ae605e4efd3a797f1/w/8d2ce7163bcdc10b51893d43/e/ca08d0073497aa834aef9631
Inspired by @dave_cowden FS: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/cfec40e2b66bb4ddb2f3414b/w/24132f252a02825eb0606641/e/c8e6602fb08acac97a10a38e
Two quick questions:
- If a public Onshape doc has no LICENSE tab, what’s the community norm for reusing code (crediting the author, of course)?
- OK to paste snippets into an LLM just for explanation/refactor?
Thanks!
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All public docs are already considered free, from Onshape's terms of use perspective, so you don't have any obligation to their original author/owner. Though its nice to mention the original author if you reusing a considerable amount of code as you already done in the post.
@roman_jurt190 This is such an awesome FS! Thanks for the credit also!
Niiice! looks good to me. Excellent use case for FS. As for crediting people, I think you've done a good job, I like to comment in the code where I've used other people's stuff, and shout them out in the forum like you've done here.
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Cool cool cool! Thank you guys!
@EvanReese the Braille icon might contain a bit of your sphere‑icon DNA ;)
And that would also be a video I would love to see: the workflow from idea to finished FS by a pro… using all the cheat‑tools you can get…
And for me it's kind of cool that - with my first script out and it not being too hard - it's like a new superpower unlocked. I might have to push my design students a bit to give it a try:)
A nice, helpful and sensible one. Shortens that long way via a Braille font while keeping things parametric. :0)
thank you martin! very kind!
Oh so it does! I'm glad it's getting use. Do you mean a tutorial on making a feature like Sphere?
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I’m curious - and I’m sure a lot of other people are too - about what your workflow looks like when you start a new FS-project. Maybe you could walk through a simpler example so you don't lose the audience right away. How do you plan, think, and use LLMs throughout the process to actually get it done? Your videos are awesome and i've seen all of them:)
Yeah got ya! It's been on the backlog (in fact my Torus feature was really designed with this in mind). AI is definitely changing things though. Maybe I'll just do a Torus demo anyway.
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