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Improvements to Onshape - May 4th, 2017
cody_armstrong
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 228 
We continue with our efforts to bring you update after update filled with highly-requested features. Here is our latest additions to start May. Hope you enjoy!
COMPOSITE CURVE
Creates a single curve comprised of sketch geometry, edges, curves, or any combination of these.
3D FIT SPLINE
Creates a 3D Spline through selected points. Start and End direction vectors and magnitude allow you to control the spline's shape.
SHEET METAL FILLET AND CHAMFER
You can now fillet and chamfer the corners of sheet metal parts.
EXPORT DXF/DWG FROM FLAT VIEW
You can now export a DXF/DWG directly from a Flat View in Onshape. You no longer need to create a drawing.
"LIST" TYPE PROPERTIES
Company owners and admins can now create properties that allow the user to choose from a list.
INSERT DXF/DWG IN ONSHAPE DRAWINGS
You can now insert a DXF or DWG into an Onshape Drawing. This is useful if you have a DXF or DWG template from a past CAD system and want to use it in Onshape to create a template.
COMPOSITE GEOMETRIC TOLERANCE
You can now create composite geometric tolerances.
MOVE DRAWING VIEW IMPROVEMENTS
Now when you move a drawing view with linked views, annotations on those linked views move as well.
DERIVED FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS
You can now insert any curve with the Derived feature. In the past this was limited to helices.
DOCUMENTS PAGE IMPROVEMENTS
Small improvements have been made to the Documents page, including a new Create button and the ability to collapse and expand teams, and labels.
IMPORT IMPROVEMENTS
Improvements have been made to importing geometry into Onshape. Most notably Onshape should be better with healing imported geometry with problem surfaces. Also added is the ability to import PTC Creo 4 files and CATIA V5-6R2017(R27).
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.
COMPOSITE CURVE
Creates a single curve comprised of sketch geometry, edges, curves, or any combination of these.
3D FIT SPLINE
Creates a 3D Spline through selected points. Start and End direction vectors and magnitude allow you to control the spline's shape.
SHEET METAL FILLET AND CHAMFER
You can now fillet and chamfer the corners of sheet metal parts.
EXPORT DXF/DWG FROM FLAT VIEW
You can now export a DXF/DWG directly from a Flat View in Onshape. You no longer need to create a drawing.
"LIST" TYPE PROPERTIES
Company owners and admins can now create properties that allow the user to choose from a list.
INSERT DXF/DWG IN ONSHAPE DRAWINGS
You can now insert a DXF or DWG into an Onshape Drawing. This is useful if you have a DXF or DWG template from a past CAD system and want to use it in Onshape to create a template.
COMPOSITE GEOMETRIC TOLERANCE
You can now create composite geometric tolerances.
MOVE DRAWING VIEW IMPROVEMENTS
Now when you move a drawing view with linked views, annotations on those linked views move as well.
DERIVED FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS
You can now insert any curve with the Derived feature. In the past this was limited to helices.
DOCUMENTS PAGE IMPROVEMENTS
Small improvements have been made to the Documents page, including a new Create button and the ability to collapse and expand teams, and labels.
IMPORT IMPROVEMENTS
Improvements have been made to importing geometry into Onshape. Most notably Onshape should be better with healing imported geometry with problem surfaces. Also added is the ability to import PTC Creo 4 files and CATIA V5-6R2017(R27).
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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The force is with you..
Many good improvements here.
Thank you especially for fillets in sheet-metal !
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Very nice, thanks folks
Owen S.
Business Systems and Configuration Controller
HWM-Water Ltd0 -
Excellent work "Team Onshape". Great to get the fillets sorted for sheet metal and the drawing improvements will help too!0
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Great updates! Thank you!0
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Nice range of new features, awesome!
Onshape has grown into state that requests/updates become more and more for specific use.
There is still at least one big feature I've been waiting for that would probably serve the whole community.
I've been mentioning it so many times that I'll just leave it up to imagination to guess what feature I'm talking about
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Yea, I totally ran through the office and cheered for sheet-metal fillet. But now I wonder how long until they include the rest of the tools for sheet-metal. Extrude add, Pattern, hole, etc.
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Composite Spline and the rest of that dropdown menu doesnt appear in my menu bar for some reason.
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@warwick_1warwick_1 said:Composite Spline and the rest of that dropdown menu doesnt appear in my menu bar for some reason.
Upgrades take a few days on existing Documents. You should see it now in new Documents and soon in older Documents.0 -
Nice update. The composite curve will let us do basic surface modeling. Well done.0
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Keep your hair on Rami - we're working on it!
Philip Thomas - Onshape0 -
Great list of updates, I just had fun adding radius's to a host of sheet metal parts, I am glad I didn't have to use an extrude cut.3
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I agree 100% with @brucebartlett! So glad to see the radius & chamfer corner feature. I was intentionally not treating the corners and hoping Onshape would roll out this feature soon 2
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Great work! I'll definitely be making use of export DXF from flat view a lot. I was just asking about that with support a month ago, actually.
It's really great to see a CAD tool under active development like this. I never felt like I was getting my money's worth with the maintenance fees for my previous software, but I sure do now!
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Thank you so much for all the hard work put into making this software as fantastic as it is!2
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Great improvements! The system is making great strides...can we please prioritize welding symbols though!0
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Great list of updates. Now Onshape becoming more powerful CAD designing tool.0
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@bert_fourie, I hear you there on the weld symbols! I bet when Onshape brings them out, they will be great. I would also like to be able to export only 1 page of a multi page drawing.0
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@jackson_king - Please make sure that you submit that enhancement request through the (pro only) feedback tool. That is how we know what to work on next - posting here is fine, but is not what we tally up.Philip Thomas - Onshape0
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@philip_thomas, I had previously submitted a request (Request #49914), it has just been a couple months since then and thought I would try to drag it back up to the top;)
It's good to know you guys are watching the forums!0 -
@jackson_king - we all read them. There is very little we dont see and we talk to customers all day getting feedback.
Like all companies we are resource constrained so we need to very smart about how we spend them. The feedback tool helps us prioritize - we never 'forget' anything, it just gets pushed further down sometimes. These forums are incredibly helpful - please feel free to discuss anything that you think would be helpful. The "best" thing for us is when there user consensus on that "one small thing" that helps the most people get their job done better.
Tell us how to do things 'better' than anyone has done before! Philip Thomas - Onshape0 -
I know I am not alone in appreciating how quickly Onshape responds to new things. Keep up the good work!
I should add that I had to look back through my support ticket history to find the one I referenced, not like I had it memorized or anything.
I really like that it was easy to check out the support history. There are so many things about Onshape that I now take for granted as always being there and when I talk with CAD users of other programs I realize just how far OS has advanced beyond those other programs in such a short time. 5
