We are excited to share some highly requested features in this release, so I won't take up another moment of your time here. Let's just jump straight in.

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

EXPLODE LINES

You may now automatically create explode lines for your exploded views.

ADD ROTATION TO MATES

You may now specify an angle of rotation directly when defining a mate. This simplifies your workflow, which previously required defining the mate and then editing the mate connector to apply the rotation.
This feature exists in all mates that currently support an "Offset" value, including Fastened, Revolute, Slider, Planar, and Pin-Slot mate types.

SHOW ASSEMBLY SKETCHES ON DRAWINGS

You may now show sketches in assembly drawing views. Sketches must have been explicitly inserted into the assembly for them to be shown.


The option for "Show sketches" will, by default, show ALL sketches that have been inserted into the assembly. However, you may control the visibility of sketches independently by utilizing Assembly Display states. 

NEW FILLET OVERFLOW OPTION

A new option has been introduced in the fillet feature, allowing you to control the edge overflow. 



This will make it easier to capture the appropriate, machinable result, even on complex filleted edges.

GROUPING OF CALLOUTS 

Callouts can now be easily be grouped with other callouts. Simply drag and drop the callout to group it.

DIMENSION SPLINE HANDLE

You may now directly dimension and constrain the spline handle of a spline.

OVERRIDDEN DIMENSIONS ON PDF EXPORT

Dimensions on an Onshape drawing that have been manually overridden automatically receive an underline. A new option allows you to hide these underlines when exporting the drawing to a PDF.

IMPROVED glTF EXPORT 

The glTF format is the growing standard for graphical data interchange between systems. With this release, glTF export has been enhanced to include Onshape specific Deterministic Part IDs and Assembly Occurrence IDs: data required for associativity and metadata transfer.

"extensions": {
  "PTC_onshape_metadata": {
    "id": "JHG"
  }
}

LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS

ANNOUNCING: THE ONSHAPE CERTIFICATION PROGRAM

Onshape is pleased to announce the launch of a professional certification program for designers and engineers who use the Onshape platform.

The Certified Onshape Professional exam provides designer and engineers with the opportunity to gain accreditation and document their proficiency in the Onshape platform.



For more information, you can read the full announcement here.

CATEGORIES TECH BRIEFING

A new technical briefing on Getting Started with Categories has been published to the Learning Center. This document discusses what an Onshape Category is, and how to create your own to efficiently manage the scope of your Onshape Properties. 

PARAMETRIC AND CONFIGURATION VARIABLES TECH BRIEFING

Learn the similarities and differences between using parametric variables and configuration variables in this new tech briefing: Parametric Variables vs Configuration Variables


Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments below. For a detailed list of all the changes in this update, please see the changelog.

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.