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FeatureScript User Community Spotlight

NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,310
Have you written a cool custom feature in FeatureScript and want to share it with the Onshape community?

We have introduced a new section on the FeatureScript web page called User Community Spotlight where we can showcase impressive and imaginative uses of Onshape and FeatureScript. It doesn't matter how simple or complex your feature is - if it's a feature that would benefit some or all of the Onshape community then we are interested to hear from you!

If you are keen to show off your custom feature creation skills, please contact me by clicking my username above then clicking "message" on the next screen.

Happy scripting!
Neil.
Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
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  • fastwayjimfastwayjim Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 220 PRO
    Let the flood gates open!  :)
  • colemancoleman OS Professional Posts: 244 ✭✭✭
    We need to light a fire to smoke out all of these folks who have written a cool feature script...
  • 3dcad3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,470 PRO
    Yep, this would be a good place to show off your skills and maybe lead to contract coding for companies who doesn't have the right person to write scripts they need.
    //rami
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    Just so everyone knows, I've written quite a few FeatureScripts, but I've been working with Onshape about which ones qualify for the User Community Spotlight, based on the nature of the code ( closed/open ), and their commercial nature ( free/for sale).....

    I don't think it qualifies as a flood, but I definitely have a few at this point -- all of which of course I think are cool, but only some of which probably actually are :)

    http://store.parametricparts.com/products.html
  • fastwayjimfastwayjim Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 220 PRO
    You've got some nice features, @dave_cowden! I definitely just made a copy of the 3D points one. I envision a little Simscale CFD on a NACA profile in my future... Also, you beat me to the "embossed text" feature, but admittedly yours is better than mine would have been - on a curve! One option to add to yours that I was playing with - adding draft from within the dialog box.
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    Hi @fastwayjim

    Yeah the 3D points one is not so good right now, but there are BIG improvements coming for it.

    I have an in-development version that allows auto-creating profiles for you from the points ( to do this, I can automatically detect the sketch plane by fitting a plane to the points ). I'm also experimenting with ability to auto-match the number of points on successive profiles, so that lofts work reliably.


  • 3dcad3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,470 PRO
    edited August 2016
    Does anyone have quick thread creator? I only need threads for cosmetic reasons (assembly instructions) so whatever comes simple and fast will do for me.. I would like to select cylinder (inside or outside), add pre-set thread, done.

    ps. Nice stuff @dave_cowden , as you get more and more stuff done your site adds great value for FS feature.
    //rami
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    Hey would you guys find it valuable for me to host a place where we can list all of the features? I know eventually, Onshape is going to have a proper store. But in the meantime, i'd be happy to come up with a way to make it easy to find all of the 'cool' features out there.  

    It can be done very easily-- just a website with a short description, a link, and the author.   The main question becomes-- what qualifies a feature for inclusion.  maybe what would work is a nomination and second process.  Any feature that is proposed, and then +1'ed by two people who are not the author makes the list. 

    Would that be helpful? Then at least there would be one place to go to find all of the cool features. I know there are a bunch of really cool ones that Onshape has made, and also cool ones that others have made too. 


  • mahirmahir Member, Developers Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    That sounds useful. Or at least a sticky forum post that keeps a running list.
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    i'd run it on a separate site, so that i can support reviews and comments. I think that's a pretty key feature: it is important so that people can see which ones are the quality ones, and easily see  a list. It's not a big deal to put up a site like that.
  • michael3424michael3424 Member Posts: 674 ✭✭✭✭
    Hey would you guys find it valuable for me to host a place where we can list all of the features? I know eventually, Onshape is going to have a proper store. But in the meantime, i'd be happy to come up with a way to make it easy to find all of the 'cool' features out there.  


    Yes, please!
  • fastwayjimfastwayjim Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 220 PRO
    Hey would you guys find it valuable for me to host a place where we can list all of the features? I know eventually, Onshape is going to have a proper store. But in the meantime, i'd be happy to come up with a way to make it easy to find all of the 'cool' features out there.
    @NeilCooke - Is this what you intend to do with https://www.onshape.com/featurescript? FS should have some sort of marketplace. Easy to browse existing features, easy to submit requests, a trustworthy nomination process, perhaps even an "auction-style" marketplace? Kind of like "Github meets the eBay App store".
  • 3dcad3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,470 PRO
    @davecowden
    Nice idea and that might be useful if you caught the attention of script writers. Eventually, The list should be accessible directly from cad since that's the place where you need features.

    I would also like to see small simple features which probably won't get much up votes but can be very handy for some segments - like simple thread maker can easily burry under 'bolt design studios'.
    //rami
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    @3dcad what I could produce would be a stop gap until onshape integrates  with cad. 

    But still I hope I could ad value.

    Sice there is a little bit if interest I will see what I can do.


  • 3dcad3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,470 PRO
    3dcad said:
    ..The list should be accessible directly from cad since that's the place where you need features.
    @3dcad what I could produce would be a stop gap until onshape integrates  with cad. 
    I'm the sort of guy who usually skips ReadMe, Sample, Tutorial -type of stuff unless I'm especially digging into something totally new for me.
    This happened also with adding custom feature script functions into docs, there is already library accessible directly from cad:

    -->  


    @dave_cowden and other coders
    This is the place where you need to get your features. There should be area for beta and another for 'use at your own discretion - not tested for production use'. WITH decent description / tips for use 
    //rami
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    I agree, that should like to a store where you can choose features of all kinds. But Onshape will have to do that, i cannot control that.
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    Ok, everyone: i've started a list of all of the featurescripts i know of ( I didnt exclude the samples that show up in the built-in samples list).

    Let me know if i'm missing any.  

    https://github.com/dcowden/featurescript
  • mahirmahir Member, Developers Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2016
    Here's some of mine not already on your list.

    Radial Pattern - circular pattern with option for radial second direction
    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57acdd79e4b01d53a1caf1f5/w/71a5841922caf49ccdf9c965/e/0aa03a35bf16af9cd999451b

    Parametric Surface - generate surfaces with equations
    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57a62df8e4b03de4c9fcf154/w/f6d71f3d862b522902efcd68/e/ece65382fcd820281a9ee704

    Multi Plane 2 - same as Onshape's Multi Plane but with a rotated plane array option
    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/578d3ba3e4b0fe44cbff7c02/w/2d7c55bd5d5ed951e86c0b0c/e/566edf8fb019ed25389d7d92
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    @mahir, thanks, added those!

    https://github.com/dcowden/featurescript

    I'll wait to see what others I get and then i will categorize them
  • lemon1324lemon1324 Member, Developers Posts: 223 EDU
    Good start! 

    "Adaptive Finger Joints -- create finger joints from overlapping geometry" has since been renamed and made into a separate document, here:
    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/578830e4e4b0e65410f9c34e/w/d04a088a0a8ab8361a2aa65c/e/7af109b2f1cead90850525ae

    Arul Suresh
    PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    Thanks Arul-- changed title to "Featurescript Laser Joint" and updated link! Let me know if you know of others too, i'll add them.
  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,310
    Hi Guys, I've been on vacation so coming late into this discussion.

    The FS page at https://www.onshape.com/FeatureScript is intended for listing custom features created by the community, for the community. The examples listed can be used for learning FS or to add as custom features to your toolbar for use in production work. I will add features to this page as they are submitted as described above (although I am a little behind on this), so there should not really be a need for a separate page. Of course you are welcome to maintain one if you find it useful. 

    The FS page is not intended for use as a commercial marketplace so all features should be free to use. Monetising custom features is something that we are looking into, but there is no timeline for this at present.

    The only thing that is missing from the FS page is a request/vote system for custom features. That should probably be done through the forum for now. Any features that are submitted to me will be reasonably QA'd to ensure they are robust enough for use in production work, but all features are really classed as examples and no warranties are implied.

    Hope this helps.


    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
  • rocky_vezeaurocky_vezeau Member Posts: 1
    lemon1324 said:
    Good start! 

    "Adaptive Finger Joints -- create finger joints from overlapping geometry" has since been renamed and made into a separate document, here:
    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/578830e4e4b0e65410f9c34e/w/d04a088a0a8ab8361a2aa65c/e/7af109b2f1cead90850525ae

    Awsome script! It would be great if you could update this to make dado joints as well. Just the ability to not cut completely through the "receiving" piece.
  • lemon1324lemon1324 Member, Developers Posts: 223 EDU
    @rocky_vezeau not to hijack the thread here too much, but that's why it was renamed to "laser joint"; it's fundamentally written for laser-cut workflow, so not cutting through doesn't make sense, and won't be part of any updates.  Honestly, in most cases I can think of, a dado is just a boolean subtract, and likely won't need FS unless you want to combine other functionality like dowels/screw holes.
    Arul Suresh
    PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
  • billy2billy2 Member, OS Professional, Mentor, Developers, User Group Leader Posts: 2,014 PRO
    Not sure I like the new help button on the bottom right of the screen.



    Seems out of place, is there any way to turn it off?




  • brian_bradybrian_brady Member, Developers Posts: 505 EDU
    In the past I've seen that and turned in a ticket. I was told I should not see it. Seems to be a bug.
  • billy2billy2 Member, OS Professional, Mentor, Developers, User Group Leader Posts: 2,014 PRO
    Brian, interesting, it's not on today. 
  • axa_engineersaxa_engineers Member Posts: 1

    Thank you for your very useful information.

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  • bill_danielsbill_daniels Member Posts: 277 ✭✭✭
    Just used Cody Armstrong's SAE Port Feature.  Worked perfectly.  Thanks Cody.
  • abefeldmanabefeldman Member Posts: 166 ✭✭✭
    wrt to the Help button issue, this is a known bug and the work around is to clear the browser cache with a SHIFT or OPTION +  refresh.
    Abe Feldman
    UX/PD/Community Support
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