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Sheet Metal is Coming!

cody_armstrong
cody_armstrong Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 229 image
edited July 2025 in New in Onshape
We know how important Sheet Metal is to you.  We have been hard at work and are very close to releasing it to everyone.  As many of you know, we generally don't announce new functionality until it's actually released.  But because this is so important to so many, we wanted to make an exception.  Below is a link to a sneak preview of the Sheet Metal functionality coming soon.

https://www.onshape.com/onshape-sheet-metal-preview

Stay tuned!
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  • Ben_
    Ben_ OS Professional, Mentor, Developers Posts: 304 PRO
    edited February 2017
    Whoot! Once you have weldments (I hope its next) Ill be able to dump all my other CAD. Looking forward to the day. 

    LearnOnshape.com
    LearnOnshape facebook group
  • owen_sparks
    owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO
    Very nice.

    Owen S.
    Business Systems and Configuration Controller
    HWM-Water Ltd
  • Narayan_K
    Narayan_K Member Posts: 379 ✭✭✭
    Hopefully this release will dispel our big hunger.... :)
  • Darren_A_Henry
    Darren_A_Henry Onshape Employees Posts: 69 image
  • DriesV
    DriesV Member, Developers Posts: 43 ✭✭
    edited February 2017
    Now that is kind of awesome...
    Product Specialist at Luxion (makers of KeyShot)
    www.keyshot.com
  • emagdalenaC2i
    emagdalenaC2i Member, Developers, Channel partner Posts: 867 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @Ben_There are a nice FeatureScript to create weldments.

    Unfortunately right now we can't sort and group weldment profiles of the same kind or length...

    PD: Onshape, I will be attending "Develop 3D live" in Warwick next March... Maybe, just maybe, it would be nice introduce a complete suite of weldment features and Onshape in Spanish ;-)
    Un saludo,

    Eduardo Magdalena                         C2i Change 2 improve                         ☑ ¿Por qué no organizamos una reunión online?  
                                                                         Partner de PTC - Onshape                                     Averigua a quién conocemos en común
  • walter
    walter Member Posts: 41 EDU
    looking good
  • Prachi
    Prachi Member, OS Professional Posts: 262 ✭✭✭
    Just had a look at the preview!
    Looks real good. Better than most others I've worked with.
    Can't wait to try myself!!!
  • 3dcad
    3dcad Member, OS Professional, Mentor Posts: 2,482 PRO
    Awesome, I wish I could bend furniture board =)
    //rami
  • chrisjh777
    chrisjh777 Member Posts: 211 ✭✭✭✭
    Preview looks impressive!!  

    I look forward to my first sheetmetal part. I have a couple of SW sheetmetal parts I'd like to replicate in OS.  Should be a good comparison.

    The ability to view the folded and flat patterns simultaneously is a great step forward.
  • derek_ward
    derek_ward Member Posts: 73 EDU
    This plus In Context Editing will seal the deal with my move from Solidworks. Looks great!
  • viru
    viru Member, Developers Posts: 619 ✭✭✭✭
    edited February 2017
    Wow...... very nice. After introduction of sheet-metal feature now many industry will think to choose Onshape as there primary CAD tool for design in future. By looking preview video I feel that sheet-metal of Onshape is simpler, faster and more user friendly than other cad tool. I am really excited to explore all feature of sheet-metal :D
  • shashank_aarya
    shashank_aarya Member Posts: 265 ✭✭✭
    Awesome! It is very simple to understand compared to other CAD, so I feel most of the industries could switch to Onshape sheet metal in future :smile:
  • owen_sparks
    owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO
    3dcad said:
    Awesome, I wish I could bend furniture board =)
    I'm in a similar position.  Sheetmetal looks really useful, just not for what I make. :/

    Perhaps we could use it to make the most awsome cardboard boxes in the world for our products? Sheetmetal sounds wrong for that, perhaps Cardboard-CAD, or Bendy-CAD? B)

    On the plus side I bet once this is released there will be some Onshape coders who'd like to work on something, perhaps anything, that isn't sheet metal for a while... :)

    Owen S.

    Business Systems and Configuration Controller
    HWM-Water Ltd
  • BenF
    BenF Member Posts: 2 PRO
    as ever with Onshape you've taken what is available in traditional CAD and taken it to the next level.  The sheet metal functions look sharper, more powerful and quicker than Solidworks.  Looking forward to using them :smiley:
  • owen_sparks
    owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO
    @NeilCook, now that's what I'm talking about!



    Owen S.
    Business Systems and Configuration Controller
    HWM-Water Ltd
  • Kevin_at_BCWP
    Kevin_at_BCWP Member Posts: 7 PRO
    Is sheet metal going to be included in the Professional subscription or a separate additional cost add-on?

    It looks great BTW!
  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,102 image
    Included for all subscription plans.
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • tsung_ren_hung
    tsung_ren_hung Member Posts: 9 EDU
    實在太好了，在關聯式設計後，又一個令人期待的重要板金模組
    It is great, in the in-context design, another important sheet metal module is looking forward to.
  • owen_sparks
    owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO
    I spy with my little eye something beginning with S...

    and ending with ...ix new icons in my partstudio.

    Forget coming, it's here!

    Wooooo.

    Owen S.
    Business Systems and Configuration Controller
    HWM-Water Ltd
  • michael3424
    michael3424 Member Posts: 783 ✭✭✭✭
    @NeilCooke - that could be really handy for making small box patterns on a laser cutter.

  • owen_sparks
    owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO
    Wow, after just a couple of minutes of playing with it I'm liking it a lot.  Love the separate view cube for the flat view.  Something similar might be nice in standard PS's to see multiple angles of the same part without having to keep spinning around.

    Once again Onshape you're making it all look easy, my sincere congratulations on some exceptional work.  Beer-o'clock for all involved I'd say.

    Owen S.
    Business Systems and Configuration Controller
    HWM-Water Ltd
  • steve_maietta
    steve_maietta Member Posts: 54 PRO
    Sheetmetal -Holy cow, my dreams have been answered..

    Maybe I'm just missing it, but is there a way to insert the flat pattern into a drawing?

    thanks for all the hard work OnShape team!!   Take a month off!

    ~Steve
  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,102 image
    @steve_maietta right click the flat view 
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • owen_sparks
    owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO
    steve_maietta said:

    Maybe I'm just missing it, but is there a way to insert the flat pattern into a drawing?

    ~Steve
    Pssst. Try right clicking on it...  ;)

    Owen S.
    Business Systems and Configuration Controller
    HWM-Water Ltd
  • christopher_quijano
    christopher_quijano OS Professional Posts: 50 PRO
    Just started trying out the sheet metal and I ran into one problem. On our sheet metal parts we tend to put a chamfer or a radius on all sharp corners but when I try this on a sheet metal part I get the following error. 

    "Active sheet metal modules are not allowed."

    I can "Finnish" the sheet metal part and add these features but they need to show up in the flat pattern. 

    Am I missing something?

    Thanks!
    Christopher

  • paul_chastell
    paul_chastell Onshape Employees Posts: 132 image
    @christopher_quijano,  Fillets/chamfers are not currently possible in sheet metal, before 'finishing', but are certainly on our list of things to add in upcoming releases.
    Paul Chastell
    TVP, Onshape Labs
  • christopher_quijano
    christopher_quijano OS Professional Posts: 50 PRO
    @paul_chastell Thanks for getting back to me. I am still happy with what we got so far.  :)

  • noa
    noa Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 141 image
    @christopher_quijano although not as convenient as chamfer and fillet features, one workaround for now: You can create sketches and extrude-remove material. This works while still editing a sheet metal model and will show up in your flat pattern.

    Noa Flaherty / Customer Success / Onshape Inc.
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