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Improvements to Onshape - July 13th, 2021

Lindsay_EarlyLindsay_Early Member, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 16
edited January 2022 in New in Onshape
We're kicking off July with a new update. This update includes highly requested import and release management features. Let’s take a look!

CAD IMPROVEMENTS

IMPORT IMPROVEMENTS

Split into multiple documents is improved to take advantage of our unique document structure.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/aou4g6w9aq

IMPROVED ARRAY AND MAP ITERATION FOR FEATURESCRIPT

Now, define your for loops with the key and value within the declaration:

for (var index, value in myArray)
{
   ...
}

A similar syntax is allowed for maps as well:

for (var key, value in myMap)
{
   ...
}
These improvements are equivalent syntax to the existing map/array iteration in Featurescript. See the Featurescript Documentation for more details.

DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS

TABLE SUPPORT FOR ALT + ENTER

Create new lines within a table by holding ALT(Option) while pressing Enter.



GROUP NOTES WITH DRAWING VIEWS

You can group notes and drawing views by pre-selecting them and choosing Group from the right-click in context menu.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/j2buyzh8fp


PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENTS

RELEASE MANAGEMENT CHANGE DETECTION

Release candidates detect unchanged components to avoid needless revisioning.
https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/rrz0t247xe

RELEASE MANAGEMENT WARNING IMPROVEMENTS

Release Management now detects and warns the user if the candidate contains an obsolete component.



ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS

ANALYTICS IMPROVEMENTS

Analytics has new filters and columns to better organize customized reports and dashboards.
https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/d8l8z76fpz


MOBILE IMPROVEMENTS

SELECTION IMPROVEMENTS IN IOS

Modify the order of selections for Transforms, 3D fit spline, Boolean, and most Mates.

LINK SHARING IN IOS

Activate Share links directly from your iOS device.




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 Onshape Documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in Documents created before the date of this update.




Comments

  • bruce_williamsbruce_williams Member, Developers Posts: 842 PRO
    glad to see improvements in import.  Organizing is a big time saver.
    www.accuratepattern.com
  • BenTaylorBenTaylor Member Posts: 43 PRO
    Change detection to prevent making unnecessary revisions will be a lifesaver. I've had to make so many individual obsoletions to correct that mistake.
    Ben Taylor
    Lead Mechanical Engineer @ Healing Innovations
    Onshape Ambassador
  • ian_d_gardinerian_d_gardiner Member, User Group Leader Posts: 35 PRO
    Big improvements to importing and change detection. Thanks Onshape team. New superpowers every three weeks :)
  • MichaelPascoeMichaelPascoe Member Posts: 1,695 PRO
    Excellent. Thank you Onshape team!

    Grouping notes will save some clicks.

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  • nick_papageorge073nick_papageorge073 Member, csevp Posts: 659 PRO
    The import improvement is great! ps, does this make the import tree come in in order, instead of upside down?

  • konstantin_shiriazdanovkonstantin_shiriazdanov Member Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    These little FS tweaks are always welcommed, thanks!
  • brooke_spreenbrooke_spreen Member, Developers Posts: 115 ✭✭✭
    Love the FS 'for (var index, value...)'.....thanks!
    Design Engineer | Anerdgy AG
  • Lucas_KuhnsLucas_Kuhns Member, csevp Posts: 88 PRO
    Glad to see improvements being made on the drawings.
  • Shaun_FieldShaun_Field Member Posts: 2
    the imports improvement will be very handy especially if you have A lot of legacy files you need to upload from old software
  • Theo_RTheo_R Member Posts: 81 PRO
    Very helpful
    RELEASE MANAGEMENT CHANGE DETECTION
    RELEASE MANAGEMENT WARNING IMPROVEMENTS
    (Would love to prevent a release candidate due to an obsolete PN)
  • danny_paynedanny_payne Member, User Group Leader Posts: 35 PRO
    Really like teh import organizing that is done.
  • karen_wagner223karen_wagner223 Member Posts: 30 ✭✭
    The new import feature is awesome. I had an assembly I had to upload that has a cluster of subassemblies in it and it parceled the subs out with their parts in each document. It is so easy to find the items I need to work with in this structure. I'm doing my happy dance!
  • adrian_vlzkzadrian_vlzkz Member Posts: 258 PRO
    Love the RM improvements 
    Adrian V. | Onshape Ambassador
    CAD Engineering Manager
  • konstantin_shiriazdanovkonstantin_shiriazdanov Member Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I see you have also added opHole() function into the standard library. Found it when faced name conflict with my own opHole function :)
  • 1v4n3rr31v4n3rr3 Member Posts: 2 EDU
    Thanx, great improvements
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