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Custom Feature: Dials!
DIALS FS
I hope this will one day become as indispensable for the AMP industry as SpeakerPattern FS is for the speaker industry :)
It’s a feature that lets you design all kinds of dials for clocks, tachometers, synthesizers, nanometers, amps, and more.
From a designer’s point of view, it’s great to have a tool that lets you control spacing, segmentation, and different visual styles all in one place.
I might have fallen victim to a bit of feature creep with all the options — but at least you can position almost everything exactly the way you want. Fast.
It’s a niche… and it probably won’t appear on any Rolex watches anytime soon (but if it does, give me a call, Rolex people! )
On a technical note: I used Google Antigravity running Claude Sonnet 4.6.
I let Antigravity take over the browser/Onshape on some Occasion. It’s still quite clumsy and slow and feels a bit cringe… but it does work!
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Cool! :0)
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If it doesn't, you could always do the extra bits you want with an Amalgam and configuration variables.
@roman_jurt190 I don't want to think about the amount of time I've spent drawing these kinds of partial dial pips by hand in previous softwares. I've got some clock projects coming up that I'm definitely going to leverage this feature to cut the time down on. Thanks for sharing.
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Hmm. @NeilCooke that was one of my first thoughts upon seeing this. I've done these the hard way before. I had to sketch the baselines in a separate sketch, otherwise the solver got too confused.
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
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hey! thanks for the comments!
ok. as of now, you can set the rotation offset - that would mean the arrow would stay… and there are way to many options for timestamps.
it's probably better to adopt the script and make a purpose build just for timestamps. but i can make it happen if there is a need and a FS is the best way to do it. just vote up…:)2 -
@roman_jurt190 looks like the numbers always increment in a clockwise direction, would it be possible to get an update that increments values going the opposite direction? One of the clocks I'm working on is designed such that the numbers are placed counterclockwise.
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@Derek_Van_Allen_BD in V4 you can now also start with a higher Start Value and the end with a lower End Value. Give it a try:)
the orientation methods radial, normal, horizontal are - depending on the font style and number size - still a bit finicky to align - but i found by playing around with nudge and offset numbers, you'll get there.:)
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Beautiful. Now I can make my counterclockwise clocks with way fewer steps.
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