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Improvements to Onshape - December 4th, 2018

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  • Tony_C_
    Tony_C_ Member Posts: 281 PRO
    Awesome-sauce!

    That display state function is great!  Now I don't have to export 2 different drawings. 
  • xpereira
    xpereira Member Posts: 2 PRO
    Wow, folders in the feature list. Christmas came early!
  • Hans_Ole_Leirvik
    Hans_Ole_Leirvik Member Posts: 83 PRO
    Great updates,

    The Feature List is now a Feature Tree  :)

    but I can't see them in assemlies, I have too many bolts and etc. that should be stoved away in subfolders.


  • john_mcclary
    john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 4,093 PRO
    Don't forget about mate sub-folders as well :)
  • steven_elliott555
    steven_elliott555 Member Posts: 24 PRO
    sub-folders for components within assemblies please
  • Jake_Rosenfeld
    Jake_Rosenfeld Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646 image
    @lemon1324

    This functionality is being worked on.  We are exploring whether this is possible, and whether we can make it good enough to be useful.
    Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team
  • simon_moore
    simon_moore Member Posts: 1 ✭✭
    Yep  _ liking the folders - simple and nice - like me?
  • APD
    APD Member Posts: 40 PRO
    All great! Especially the Display states in drawings! And my BOM tables are now resizing correctly to the text! 
    Nice work Onshape!!
  • eddie_louw
    eddie_louw Member Posts: 2 ✭
    Importing of the latest Version of DXF files is still a concern
  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,090 image
    eddie_louw said:
    Importing of the latest Version of DXF files is still a concern
    Can you elaborate? Can you share the DXF file you are having problems with?
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • eddie_louw
    eddie_louw Member Posts: 2 ✭
    NeilCooke said:
    eddie_louw said:
    Importing of the latest Version of DXF files is still a concern
    Can you elaborate? Can you share the DXF file you are having problems with?
    https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8192a904e7fd0d2b33ac7f74/w/488322d5c1db3358fb6794c6/e/41b7c91ad4a0f5358261aa4c

    This is just a sample from Coreldraw exported as AutoCAD 2008-2013
  • john_mcclary
    john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 4,093 PRO
    CorelDraw! wow, I didn't know they were still around :)
    Haven't used them since Windows 3.1 Brings me back to my grandma's house, she used to set me up in coreldraw to pacify me while babysitting :D
  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,090 image
    @eddie_louw in all seriousness though, it looks like Onshape is not liking the splines out of CorelDraw. Can you see if it can export them as polylines?

    I also discovered that Autodesk has indeed created a newer version of DXF called DXF 2018 (for whatever reason). These files will not open in the Onshape viewer but CAN be imported into a sketch in a Part Studio.

    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • jon_loschke
    jon_loschke Member Posts: 32 ✭✭
    OMFG!!!  thank you for feature folders!!
  • ian_murgatroyd
    ian_murgatroyd Member Posts: 1 ✭✭
    When I put features into folders one at a time it goes to top of the folder's feature list. This makes a lot of broken features. I could solve it by dragging to bottom of folder's list but I feel it should go there by default. 
  • Jake_Rosenfeld
    Jake_Rosenfeld Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646 image
    Hi @ian_murgatroyd

    This is on our radar!
    Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team
  • john_mcclary
    john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 4,093 PRO
    ian_murgatroyd said:
    When I put features into folders one at a time it goes to top of the folder's feature list. This makes a lot of broken features. I could solve it by dragging to bottom of folder's list but I feel it should go there by default. 
    The problem is, where was the feature before dragging. If you have a folder between two features and you want them both in, you would want one on the top of the list, one of the bottom. So changing a default doesn't help. You're assuming people will always be working below the folder. Onshape assumed people would be working above the folder. Either way, it doesn't matter:
    The real answer is expand the folder and just put it where you want to go the first time. Works every time :)

  • owen_sparks
    owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO
    Or it could determine if you're dragging from above or below the folder and drop it in accordingly...
    Business Systems and Configuration Controller
    HWM-Water Ltd
  • john_mcclary
    john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 4,093 PRO
    Aye, that would be cool.
    Another thought would be to have it "Peek" into a collapsed folder. maybe expand it after mouseover for 1 second, then you can drag in, then it auto collapse again.
  • owen_sparks
    owen_sparks Member, Developers Posts: 2,660 PRO
    Nice :+1:
    Business Systems and Configuration Controller
    HWM-Water Ltd
  • EricGauthier
    EricGauthier Member Posts: 73 ✭✭✭
    edited December 2018
    Voici la version française des nouveautés du 4 décembre 2018.
  • jrs_spedley
    jrs_spedley Member Posts: 71 ✭✭
    Only just noticed the Feature List Folders!  Thank you very much. :)

    I recall these were asked for a year or more ago but the response from onshape wasn't particularly positive and I didn't think it would happen.
    I must have skimmed passed this in the email as it is a feature I really could use at the moment!

    Thanks.

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