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Improvements to Onshape - October 11th, 2016
cody_armstrong
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 215 
It's that time again! Check out all the awesome new features that were added with this most recent update!
SHORTCUT TOOLBARS
The "S" key on the keyboard now launches a shortcut toolbar in Part Studios and assemblies. It's a context sensitive toolbar that appears right next to your cursor. It can be customized under your "Manage Account" settings under "Preferences." The keyboard shortcut for starting a sketch is now "Shift + S".
MOVE TO DOCUMENT
You can now move tabs to a new Document. Right click a tab and choose "Move to Document." You can even move multiple tabs to a new Document at once with the tab manager. If the tab has references, they will also be moved to the new Document. The Document where the tab originated from will automatically update to reflect the link to the new Document.
THUMBNAIL PREVIEW
You will now see a thumbnail preview for tabs when hovering over them. Simply hover over a tab at the bottom, pause for a moment, and the thumbnail will appear.
SHARE PERMISSIONS IMPROVEMENTS
New share permission options give you more control over the exact permissions you want to give to others. In the past, you had a pre-defined list of permissions to choose from. With this update each separate permission has a checkbox allowing you to pick and choose the permissions you want.
SHEET SCALE
Sheet Scale can now be set in Onshape Drawings. Select sheet properties and you will see a new option to "Scale." Changing sheet scale will update every view linked to the sheet scale. If a view is changed to something other than the sheet scale, a note with the scale will appear automatically. Sheet scale will display in the default Onshape drawing templates, and is also a field that can be inserted into a note.
FRACTIONAL INCHES
Fractional inches are now a supported length unit in Onshape Drawings. This allows you to display dimensions as fractions and also set the tolerance so the dimension is appropriately rounded.
EXPLODE TEXT WHEN EXPORTING DRAWINGS
When exporting an Onshape Drawing as DXF, DWG, or DWT, there is a new option for managing text when exporting. "Explode into polylines" will allow you to export a drawing with text as polylines. This can resolve some issues users have when importing drawings from Onshape into another application.
NEW DRAWING SYMBOLS
New square , "+/-", and arc length symbols have been added to the list of symbols in Onshape Drawings.
SHOW/HIDE BORDER OF IMAGES IN DRAWINGS
When inserting images into drawings, there is a new right-click menu option to hide or show the image borders.
Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and let us know what you think!
Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in documents created before the date of this update.
SHORTCUT TOOLBARS
The "S" key on the keyboard now launches a shortcut toolbar in Part Studios and assemblies. It's a context sensitive toolbar that appears right next to your cursor. It can be customized under your "Manage Account" settings under "Preferences." The keyboard shortcut for starting a sketch is now "Shift + S".
MOVE TO DOCUMENT
You can now move tabs to a new Document. Right click a tab and choose "Move to Document." You can even move multiple tabs to a new Document at once with the tab manager. If the tab has references, they will also be moved to the new Document. The Document where the tab originated from will automatically update to reflect the link to the new Document.
THUMBNAIL PREVIEW
You will now see a thumbnail preview for tabs when hovering over them. Simply hover over a tab at the bottom, pause for a moment, and the thumbnail will appear.
SHARE PERMISSIONS IMPROVEMENTS
New share permission options give you more control over the exact permissions you want to give to others. In the past, you had a pre-defined list of permissions to choose from. With this update each separate permission has a checkbox allowing you to pick and choose the permissions you want.
SHEET SCALE
Sheet Scale can now be set in Onshape Drawings. Select sheet properties and you will see a new option to "Scale." Changing sheet scale will update every view linked to the sheet scale. If a view is changed to something other than the sheet scale, a note with the scale will appear automatically. Sheet scale will display in the default Onshape drawing templates, and is also a field that can be inserted into a note.
FRACTIONAL INCHES
Fractional inches are now a supported length unit in Onshape Drawings. This allows you to display dimensions as fractions and also set the tolerance so the dimension is appropriately rounded.
EXPLODE TEXT WHEN EXPORTING DRAWINGS
When exporting an Onshape Drawing as DXF, DWG, or DWT, there is a new option for managing text when exporting. "Explode into polylines" will allow you to export a drawing with text as polylines. This can resolve some issues users have when importing drawings from Onshape into another application.
NEW DRAWING SYMBOLS
New square , "+/-", and arc length symbols have been added to the list of symbols in Onshape Drawings.
SHOW/HIDE BORDER OF IMAGES IN DRAWINGS
When inserting images into drawings, there is a new right-click menu option to hide or show the image borders.
Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and let us know what you think!
Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in documents created before the date of this update.
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Can we move a tab to an existing document?
I'm really enjoying Onshape at the moment!
Cheers,
Owen S
HWM-Water Ltd
It's almost unreal feeling when you see a new feature added into professional cad tool which we requested on forum only few months ago.
Oh, and maybe a way to adjust the shape of the pop-up from square to rectangular (drag to resize?). That way I could have my sketch buttons on the top row and the constraint buttons on the lower row.
Great observation!Linked[in]
It's my hope that this improvement will be expanded to include moving a single part out of a part studio and into another document in the near future.
Keep up the good work.
_Ðave_
I'm not sure how this would work? The whole premise of Part Studios is that you can create inter-related parts, like a subassembly, and use edges off other parts so that references are more robust. Onshape basically treats a Part Studio as a single part (though in reality it is multiple parts built up from individual features). If I really need to separate parts I tend to duplicate the Part Studio, delete the features that define the parts I don't need and fix any broken references - I could then move the tab to another Document. To make this work we would probably have to disable the movement of parts that reference other parts which would cause a lot of confusion. Always open to ideas?
@_Dave_ I am wondering why you would want your parts moved into a single part studio tabs? Can your requirement be performed with a derived part or by adding a single part to an assembly while retaining links or as dumb solids by exporting to a neutral format then re-importing to a separate part studio's.
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But either way I can't take advantage of creating my parts in a multi part studio, which is a great feature in Onshape.
Right click on the part in the parts list and select properties and you'll see this:-
I have an open improvement request to have this parameter (and others) included in the file name of any part that is exported.
Regards,
Owen S.
HWM-Water Ltd
I use it all the time in SWX and I find it much more comfortable than remapping the whole keyboard with shortcuts on the individual keys.
I was not expecting that. Huge thanks to the team.
Surely it would be better solution to expand version control so that we can create versions of parts rather than building system to move them into their own documents. I need this function too, I don't like to version whole document since usually I only wan't to version a part or single part studio.
I have not made any request for this yet beacause I wan't to first see variants/configurations if that would provide me a way to make changes to single part, bounce between versions in assembly and get changes documented (ie. keep also old versions accessible).