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Link to public documents?
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Is there - or will there be - any way to generate a permalink to all of a user's public documents? I'm creating a new personal website, and would like to put a link to my public OnShape documents in the footer, alongside the "Find me on Twitter/GitHub/etc." links, so people can take a look at the models I've made. If I could have something like "cad.onshape.com/<username>" direct people to view all of my public models, that would be awesome.
(Obviously, I realize that this is of limited use now, since most people aren't able to log in to see the files. However, could be some neat guerrilla marketing...)
(Obviously, I realize that this is of limited use now, since most people aren't able to log in to see the files. However, could be some neat guerrilla marketing...)
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I agree with @PDY and @Ben about possible deeper social network integration (especially Twitter - tweeting a public model link from within OS would be awesome!). I'd like to be able to include links in my profile to my outside presences (Twitter, Facebook, GitHub, personal website, etc.), and I'd like the profile to be persistent across the OS ecosystem - the profile is attached to my CAD login, my presence on the forums, my public model page, etc. Asides from that, just keep it simple, professional, and gimmick-free. I'm sure others will disagree, but I think we're all adults - we don't need to be able to "poke" other users/other social network nonsense like that.
(Only exception to this might be "liking"/"+1'ing" content. I find it annoying, but I've read a few arguments claiming that the "like" function is one of the core social network innovations/critical for social network success.)
I wonder how much value there would be in generating a QR code and link at the same time to the public URL. This would be useful for shop floor access to the documentation. Would also be useful for technical documentation for customers, etc...
Julian Leland Sorry to hijack the post... it just seemed really similar to what you are asking for.
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I was thinking that I could use an iFrame and link back to OS servers for a 3D model which might be OK, but what if I want to list a catalog page with 50 parts. Then I'd be asking OS to supply 50 models which might not work or make my webpage render really slow.
I've played with exporting stl to triangle to webgl and have had models spinning on my website, but this isn't for most people.
I've hacked edrawings and included them on my website, but it only works inside explorer which isn't a solution I want.
How many times have you been to a web site and been able to grab a model and spin it? It'd be nice if OS defined this, controlled this and open sourced this. This would define a whole new web experience for people and engineers would love it.
Oh yeah, to make it fun, let's link the OS's web output to keep the OS model & websites in-sync, if OS changes, bam! the website updates.
If I had this capability, I could build a manufacturing website that would parse engineering layouts and distribute to manufacturing. I would like this.
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