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Automation for assemblies
brooke_spreen
Member, Developers Posts: 115 ✭✭✭
Hi all,
One of my company's products is a modular roof-edge solar installation. For each project, we line the roof (flat roof, think top of an apartment building) with our solar units using a small handful of configured parts. First, the base unit assembly is defined by things like solar panel size and angle of installation. Then this unit is replicated to fill the roof edges and corner units are added. The goal is to semi-automate this process using FeatureScript, but we're struggling to figure out a way to do this without using assemblies. Derived parts might work, but it would be a shame to lose the clear hierarchy of assemblies.
So, is there any way FeatureScript can be used with assemblies? Or is there any equivalent script/automation tool for assemblies? Will there ever be?
Cheers,
Brooke
Design Engineer | Anerdgy AG
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Jake_Rosenfeld
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646 
In the meantime this sort of thing can be accomplished with the Assembly APIs that we expose.
@brooke_spreen
If you are interested in learning about this, please reach out to the support team and they can give you more information.Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team5 -
Jake_Rosenfeld
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646
Hi @brooke_spreen
Check out our developer portal:
https://dev-portal.onshape.com/
There it lists the links for the documentation, some sample programs, and an email that you can reach out to with questions.
Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team5
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"Will there ever be?" I hope so. Until then all we can to is upvote and create improvement requests.
Vote here: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/9663/featurescript-for-assembly
@brooke_spreen
If you are interested in learning about this, please reach out to the support team and they can give you more information.
Check out our developer portal:
https://dev-portal.onshape.com/
There it lists the links for the documentation, some sample programs, and an email that you can reach out to with questions.